FixVsItemSortOrder - Visual Studio Add Item Dialog Sort 'Em Alphabetically Utility

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"What is FixVsItemSortOrder?

By default Visual Studio's add dialog is sorted arbitrarily by the creators of the item templates and this can make it hard to find items to add. The FixVsItemSortOrder utility changes the sort order of all the item templates so the add dialog is sorted alphabetically.

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This cool GPL (but with no source code that I can find) VS 2005 command line utility touches all the Item Templates, i.e. all the in the zips in the %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\ folder and subfolders, and adjusts their *.vstemplate Sort Order values so the items sort alphabetically.

I just ran it and it worked fine for me (but for sanity sake and like the site recommends, make sure you backup the ItemTemplates folder...)

(via Larkware News - The Daily Grind 1061)