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Get a filtered file view in Solution Explorer

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Get a filtered file view in Solution Explorer

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- [Instructor] The Solution Explorer has a file filter you might find helpful. By default when you look in Solution Explorer, you see the solution and you see all the projects and if you drill down into the project trees, you can also see all the folders and files that are in those projects. Now this can be a lot of information in big solutions, so you can filter what's shown in Solution Explorer. And one of the more obvious ways of doing that is to come up here to the top where you see the words Search Solution Explorer. I'll type in index.cshtml, and it's filtering down and showing me just those files that are in those projects. I can see there is the HTML file and there is the C-sharp affiliated file. Now I can clear the filter by clicking here, and then I can type in, let's look for schema. This time it shows me if there are some JSON files. Now this is case sensitive, so if I type in a capital A here, you'll see I…

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