Shortcut in Visual Studio to open solution in Windows file explorer?

Question

Is there a keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio (currently using 2013) to open the solution (or a project) in the Windows file explorer?

Currently, I normally have to open up the Solution Explorer, right-click on my solution or a project and scroll down to 'Open Folder in File Explorer', but this becomes a time consuming task as I have to do it often (TortoiseGit not integrated with my IDE).

Answer 1

An improvement over @Walt_Ritscher's answer I found was to assign a keyboard shortcut to the File.OpenContainingFolder.

Instead of having to first select a project or solution from the solution project I can simply press a desired keyboard shortcut while any file is in focus (without having to open the Solution Explorer) and it will open the file location in Windows Explorer. This saves time if the focus in my solution explorer is on a file deep in the structure of my solution explorer since I don't have to scroll all the way back up to select a project/solution before hitting the keyboard shortcut.

Answer 2

Yes, you can add your own keyboard shortcut to open the folder.

Open the Tools/Options/Keyboard dialog. In the Show Commands Containing textbox, type OpenFolderIn and you will see the OpenFolderInFileExplorer command. Select the command, then assign a shortcut key. Move your cursor to the Press shortcut keys textbox.then press your desired key combination. In my example I chose Ctrl+Shift+'. Be sure and click the Assign button to memorize the shortcut key

Press OK and you're done.