hrudham / AutoCollapse

Automatically collapses regions, methods, properties, etc. when a new window is opened in Visual Studio 2012

AutoCollapse

Summary

Visual Studio 2012 add-in that basically collapses everything when you open a file.

Description

I found that I tend to press CTRL + M, CTRL + O (Collapse to Definitions) whenever I opened a .cs file, and CTRL + K, CTRL + O (Start Automatic Outling) whenever I opened a .cshtml file from the Solution Explorer.

In the past, I could have set up a macro to do this automatically, but this functionality has been removed in Visual Studio 2012; thus I build this add-in.

It basically runs the Edit -> Outlining -> Start Automatic Outling and Edit -> Outlining -> Collapse to Definitions commands whenever a file is opened. Note that it only does this when files are opened from Solution Explorer, since I did not want everything collapsed when, say, searching or debugging a file.

I threw this together for my own convenience. I do not plan to continue developing this further, unless I personally encounter a bug that irritates me enough to fix it. Use this at your own risk, and feel free to fork the repository.

I also have no idea if it will work on older versions of Visual Studio.

Install

To install this add-in:

1. Build the solution.
2. Find the AutoCollapse.AddIn file, and the built AutoCollapse.dll file.
3. Copy these two files to [My Documents]\Visual Studio 2012\Addins.
4. Open (or restart) Visual Studio 2012.