Category Archives: Tools

Visual Studio: Sort the usings so that System stays at the top

I prefer to keep my System directives at the top. Unfortunately the default settings is to sort everything alphabetically. To keep your System directives at the top when sorting the using clauses you can enable the following setting.

Visual Studio: Show the open file in the solution explorer.

This is the #1 thing that I switch on when working on a newly installed Visual Studio. The option “Track Active Item in Solution Explorer” always selects the file you have open in the solution explorer.