track active item in solution explorer ONLY on demand

Question

I'm using VS 2010, 2012 & 2013.

Usually I don't want the IDE to auto-focus on the item in solution explorer but sometimes it's useful.

Is there any keyboard shortcut or a menu option to navigate to the file in solution explorer on demand?

Thanks :)

possible duplicate of [visual studio 2012 scroll solution explorer to current file](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12682656/visual-studio-2012-scroll-solution-explorer-to-current-file) — Ravi Yenugu, Jul 03 '14 at 19:32
If you wrote it as an answer I'd select it, but here I can't :) — WillyCode, Jul 04 '14 at 15:48

score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 21 '18 at 11:07

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For VS 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017: "Sync with Active Document" (default shortcut: Ctrl+[, S).

edited Aug 21 '18 at 11:07

Jim Aho

answered Dec 08 '15 at 14:40

AlejandroR

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 21 '18 at 11:09

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I know your question refers to 2010, 2012 & 2013, but VS 2017 has a button on the solution explorer to sync with active document:

edited Aug 21 '18 at 11:09

Jim Aho

answered Feb 13 '18 at 02:30

AntonK

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 26 '17 at 10:12

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Go to Tools/Options/Enviroment/keyboard look for View.TrackActivityinSolutionExplorer and assign the shortcut that you want.

Here I needed to remove the shortcut first, because the ctrl+shift+t was already assigned.

Of course, you can assign other shortcut.

answered Oct 26 '17 at 10:12

Everton Santos

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This setting is not a one off, it turns it permanently on or off (basically by ticking or unticking the Track Active item setting). – goamn Jul 11 '18 at 02:31

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