File Path On Footer

Displays the full path of the current file at the top or bottom of the editor in Visual Studio/SSMS.

Click here to download the extension from Visual Studio Marketplace.

Configure options such as path format, trailing folders, directory separators, alignment, spacing, and internal/generated file handling. Click behaviors: Ctrl+Click or double right-click to open the containing folder, right-click to copy the full path.

Visual Studio themes are supported, Don’t have additional themes for Visual Studio, then you can get more themes from Visual Studio Marketplace.

This will be very helpful if you are working on files which is having similar and or same name. Visual Studio IDE already shows the file path when you hover the mouse over the document tab but I like to see the file name always on bottom of editor.

Tools Options

Using this plugin you can,

  • Display the file name always at the top, bottom and bottom control of the editor.
  • Open the containing folder using Ctrl+Click or Double Right Click.
  • Toggle the directory separator character.
  • Copy the full path using Right Click.
  • Copy a partial path using text selection or Left Click.
  • Configure trailing folder levels and path display format.
  • Support for standard Visual Studio themes and environment fonts.
  • Full support for High Contrast mode.
  • Configure all options via Tools → Options → File Path On Footer.
  • All themes are supported.
  • Supports Environment Font settings, Contrast changes.

Please share your suggestions and feedback.

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  3. Good morning from Berlin/Germany!

    Sincerely “File Path On Footer” raised an exception yesterday trying to open the clipboard.
    After closing the exception I tried again, the desired file path came into the clipboard, but VS2013 crash and restarted.
    After the restart I couldn’t reproduce the problem.

    Any chance to catch such exceptions, like when raised while failing when trying to open the clipboard?

    Best regards,

    Martin

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  4. Hello from France!

    Congratulations for your extension, it’s very nice 🙂
    I just find a little bug when the extension is activate and you try to run a SQL Query in VS 2013 (don’t try in 2012).
    for me it’s a big problem so i have to desactivate your extension 🙁

    i hope you can correct it in a new version.

    Good luck!
    Thibaut

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      • Hello!

        Review done on VS Gallery 🙂

        It’s ok for SQL Query and i didn’t find another bug (for the moment 😉 ).
        Just a little problem with my theme. I’m on a custom theme based on Dark editor, and the file path extension render like this :
        http://1drv.ms/1qUZ4K1

        do you know the parameter to change to have it in correct dark? i didn’t find it in the color editor

    • I have fixed this issue in version 1.4.3 and also added support for custom environment font settings. Please update.

      Also please show your support by giving a quick review. It only takes a few seconds 🙂

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  9. All image files got deleted while Visual Studio Gallery team worked on the page issue. Now I need to upload the image files again. Download works without any issue.

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    • Yes, download to update the extension works, but after the successful update, the VS extensions dialog does not mark the extension as updated and the “download” button is still working to download and to start the installation of the extension, which itself denies to install again.

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    • Hello, I require some time to re-arrange the code for making it open source.
      I like the relative path idea, I can get the relative path option added in this plugin, can you tell me how you would like to configure the relative path?

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  11. Hello, I’m using Visual Studio 2015 RC with your File Path On Footer extension, but I meet two issues.

    First it doesn’t fit Visual Studio’s dark theme.

    Then the more important, it throws NRE and causes Visual Studio to crash when setting breakpoint condition. Here is the stack trace and I hope it’s useful: https://gist.github.com/CnSimonChan/4e567956061701b6c347

    Thanks

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  15. I am enjoying your extension. I am currently using it on VS 2015 and other then it always having a white background, it seems to work great. Is it possible to make it so it only shows on the bottom when I do a split screen? When I do a split, it shows it on the bottom of both parts and shows the same information.

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  16. Since working with UI Zoom of 150% I have often the situation, that VS2013 places the current execution line – after hitting a breakpoint – right behind the file path.
    In consequence I have to scroll before I can see the current execution line.

    Before using the UI Zoom I didn’t have this “problem”.

    Could it be, that VS2013 does not know about this UI element, so it places the current execution line “behind” it?

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    • Hi,
      again and again VS2013 places the stop of an execution at a breakpoint right behind the “File path on footer” UI elements.
      So I still think, that VS2013 does not really know, that its current execution line is hidden by the UI elements of “File Path On Footer”.
      Could please take a look?
      Best regrads,
      Martin

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  17. Hi,

    question: would it be possible to extend theme support for high-contrast theming (accessiblity theme)?

    I need to use the high-contrast-#1 theme as desktop theme and VS2015 automatically uses the “high contrast” theme, which has black window background, yellow window text, white frame color, green selection color, etc..

    While VS2013 used a kind of dark theme to emulate the high contrast mode, VS2015 does not.
    And so your extension looks dark with white text in VS2013 and light with black text in VS2015.

    Please, change this behavior or add additional theming, since it “hurts” my eyes! Some colleagues say: working in black high-contrast-mode “hurt” their eyes! 😉

    Cheers,

    Martin

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  19. Ever used “File Path on Footer” while peeking into code?

    In VS2015 the file path is even shown in in-place code views (peeks)!
    And even here the in-place code views don’t seem to know about the used area – like when VS2013/15 places the current execution line after stopping at a break point right below the area of “File Path on Footer”.

    Any solution available or thinkable, but uninstalling?

    Cheers,

    Martin

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      • Hi Shemeer,

        The smaller the room on the screen, the less important file-path-on-footer
        is within peek areas, right?

        Especially, if VS2015 doesn’t seem to know about the existence of the
        extension UI, so that no code is visible within the peek area, if the
        extension UI hides the code within the peek area!

        Cheers,

        Martin

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