Hide Class-View in Solution Explorer

Question

Is there a way to hide the classes-inside-a-file in solution explorer?

It adds to the \"noise\" there. The drop-down triangles are quite confusing - I want to immedi

Answer 1

Instructions for Visual Studio 2017:

1. Close Visual Studio 2017
2. Open Registry Editor (regedit), select HKEY_USERS
3. File → Load Hive → %localappdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_<id>\privateregistry.bin where <id> is some hexadecimal gibberish. Set Key Name to the one you like e.g. vs2017
4. Go to HKEY_USERS\vs2017\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_<id>
5. Create new key UseSolutionNavigatorGraphProvider of DWORD (32-bit) type, value 0
6. Select HKEY_USERS\vs2017, File → Unload Hive

Answer 2

In VS2017 (and pretty sure in VS2015 also), click on the little triangle to the right of the search box in Solution Explorer. In the window that pops up, uncheck 'Search within file contents'. That will only show files in the filtered results.