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title: "\"Cool Commands\" for VS 2005 is a free and useful little Add-in!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/4/2/quotcool-commandsquot-for-vs-2005-is-a-free-and-useful-littl.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/4/2/quotcool-commandsquot-for-vs-2005-is-a-free-and-useful-littl.html"
published: "2006-04-02T09:01:00"
updated: "2006-04-02T09:01:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "If you're using VS 2005 I highly recommend downloading and installing the nice \"Cool Commands\" addin, which you can learn about and download here . It adds some really handy right click menus to VS including (my…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# "Cool Commands" for VS 2005 is a free and useful little Add-in!

By Roy Osherove April 2, 2006 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 2, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

If you're using VS 2005 I highly recommend downloading and installing the nice "Cool Commands" addin, which you can [learn about and download here](http://weblogs.asp.net/gmilano/archive/2006/02/27/439208.aspx). It adds some really handy right click menus to VS including (my favorites):

- Command Prompt here
- Copy/Paste references between projects
- Demo Font
- Font resizing using the mouse scroll wheel
- Right clicking in a code file and choosing "build \[current project name\]"

And these are just features I liked 5 minutes after installation.

**One thing Missing?**

I wish it also had something which I have no idea how they missed in VS: Right clicking in a code file and saying "Find this file/project in the solution explorer".  Any ideas where I can install something like that?

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