I often need to open Windows Explorer and browse to the current file, folder, or project that I am working on in Visual Studio. This tip allows you to achieve this by clicking "Windows Explorer" in the Tools menu, and is one of the most simple-yet-useful tips I know of.
To set it up, click Tools, then External Tools..., then click Add. Now enter the following data:Title: Windows ExplorerCommand: explorer.exeArguments: /select,"$(ItemPath)"
Leave Initial directoy blank, and click OK. Now when you click Tools, Windows Explorer, Windows Explorer will open with the current file you are editing selected.
submitted by Daniel Flower