Use Solution Filters to handle large code bases in Visual Studio

Solution Filters is a mechanism that enables you to separate large solutions into smaller pieces without modifying the solution file (.sln). It's great for working with big code bases and usually result in much faster load and build times. Mads Kristensen shows you how to use them.

[danielketcheson]

4 minutes saved me 4 months of load time. You saved my life, 4 months of it. In 4 minutes. 4 free.
Gotta love this new age.

[andersborum]

Joined a team that's been using solution filters for quite a while and it's working really nice; thanks!

[EricTViking]

Great video and an awesome new feature. Have been using it already after I saw the other vid you did with Robert Green. One thing though, when you have a filtered solution, search only seems to search within the loaded projects and doesn't return results from projects that aren't loaded. I just got caught out by this when trying to find references to a WebAPI Controller method that is referenced from other class library projects that weren't loaded.

[Malckorn]

Great feature! Help me a lot =D Thanks!

[gobindrauniyar]

Can we open the slnf file directly from source control explorer, without using file explorer?

[maheshkudikala]

Will this work for solution which the code base is under TFS?

[ottomaier]

Great video, thumps up and thank you. But anyway, I don't like solutions filters.

[RabbiAdolfShaevich]

Filters don't work, Show all files didn't do the job