Change the title of Solution Explorer in Visual Studio?

Question

My job forces me to work in Visual Studio and .NET. I'm attempting to streamline the experience, somewhat successfully. (TFS still thwarts me.)

Right now, I want to work with multiple Solution Explorers, as we have a Visual Studio solution containing a multitude of csproj files. Creating a new Solution Explorer view for each commonly-used project would be great, except for this - all of the tabs and titles say "Solution Explorer".

Is there any way to change the title of the Solution Explorer window and tab? Is there any way to set the title to the title of the root solution or project file? (If there's an extension that will do this, I will happily install it.)

Thank you.

Edit: It looks like my question wasn't understood very well. The project conforms to regular standards - it's one Solution with multiple Projects , with a highly-nested directory structure. Basically, instead of having to scroll a lot, and constantly open and close nodes in the tree view, I'd like to have multiple Solution Windows to help facilitate this. Visual Studio provides an option called New Solution Explorer View in the context menu, which will open a new Solution Explorer window with a target object at its root. I want to do this for the commonly-used projects in my solution, but I want each Explorer instance to be named so that I can keep them in a single pane and click between them. Make sense?

Hope I've appeased the VS enthusiasts.

Double Edit: This is the feature I'm looking for. Is this possible through an extension?

Answer 1

There exists a visual studio-extension named Multiple Solution Explorer Tools , which extends the default behavior of the New Solution Explorer View -command:

Multiple Solution Explorer Tools Visual Studio Extension

• New Solution Explorer instances gets persisted across solution unload and load.
• The toolbar provides an icon ( ) to rename the current solution explorer view.

The extension currently supports Visual Studio 2017 and 2019.

Answer 2

My job forces me to work in Visual Studio and .NET. I'm attempting to streamline the experience, somewhat successfully. (TFS still thwarts me.)

Right now, I want to work with multiple Solution Explorers, as we have a Visual Studio solution containing a multitude of csproj files. Creating a new Solution Explorer view for each commonly-used project would be great, except for this - all of the tabs and titles say "Solution Explorer".

Is there any way to change the title of the Solution Explorer window and tab? Is there any way to set the title to the title of the root solution or project file? (If there's an extension that will do this, I will happily install it.)

Thank you.

Edit: It looks like my question wasn't understood very well. The project conforms to regular standards - it's one Solution with multiple Projects , with a highly-nested directory structure. Basically, instead of having to scroll a lot, and constantly open and close nodes in the tree view, I'd like to have multiple Solution Windows to help facilitate this. Visual Studio provides an option called New Solution Explorer View in the context menu, which will open a new Solution Explorer window with a target object at its root. I want to do this for the commonly-used projects in my solution, but I want each Explorer instance to be named so that I can keep them in a single pane and click between them. Make sense?

Hope I've appeased the VS enthusiasts.

Double Edit: This is the feature I'm looking for. Is this possible through an extension?