08 Smarter Add New File

I can't recommend this highly enough I love this thing I use the extension and for years and I'm very happy that this is now in the Box I'm gonna show you one of my favorite new features that we are putting into Visual Studio this one started its life as a an extension it's now coming into Visual Studio let me demonstrate that so let's say I want to add a file to my project you know I can right click go down to add a new item and that gives me this dialogue but what if I go into tools options here and click preview feature flag here and what I want to search for is enable quick add so now when I right click and say add new item or kick Ctrl shift a it's the same thing I get this little dialogue up instead so I can still click on this link that's shown as well that says show all templates which gives me that experience that I'm used to but I want to get the simplified view we call it the quick add dialog and so in here I can just type a file name so a name dot Cs and that's what it does it just gives me the internal class and and this actually respects if I have uh how how my namespace rules are in my editor config or in my settings and it will do the right thing it uses the the templates behind the scenes but it's it's a little bit more clever than that so control shift a again for add new item to bring it back up let's type something a little bit more interesting let's what if we create two files what if I create create a client Cs and iclient.cs I just comma separated them and I now have those two files but check this out iclient is an interface whereas client is a class so the quick ad method or dialog is able to understand that I client that naming pattern should match an interface template and then give me that but I can also click create folders so I'm going to create a folder here called folder and you can name it whatever you want and just end it with a forward slash hit enter and now you have an empty folder I could also have gone in and said okay what if I do some sub directories here and then end with file.css so I can create subfolders I can create files in those folders and again I can comma separate these to create multiples this is in the preview behind a feature flag so you saw how I went into tools Options under preview features and enabled this feature