title: Visual Studio 2012 Highlight all open files in solution explorer?
body: <p>Question:
  Is there a way to make all files that are open in visual studio be highlighted in the solution explorer? 
  (I know there is a filter that you can filter it to show only open files but this dos me no good sense I am looking for a file that may not be open, I am not even sure what the name of the file is until I open it up and say there it is.)</p>
  
  <p>Example Imagined GUI result: (Different colors are fine) 
  <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B31DHM9TkK99S3pWSms3QXR2Qk0/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B31DHM9TkK99S3pWSms3QXR2Qk0/edit?usp=sharing</a>
  (image of what i am thinking, can not post image right now)</p>
  
  <p><strong>Solution Explorer</strong> <br/>
  -Solution<br/>
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;+Stuff<br/>
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;+More stuff<br/>
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-Code<br/>
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;+MyOpenFile.cs (Highlighting)<br/>
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;+MyNotOpenFile.cs<br/>
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;+MyOtherOpenFile.cs (Highlighting)<br/>
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;+MyCurrentlyOpenFile.cs (Highlighting, maybe a different color)<br/></p>
  
  <p>(the one with the red under line could be the active tab)</p>
  
  <p>Background:
  I don't know if this happens to any one else, but I have been doing it a lot for years now. While working on something I go to open up a file in the solution explorer and it turns out that the file is already open, and so visual studios just sets that file as the active tab. If I were working In just one window that would be fine, but I have few tab windows open beyond the main window and they are normally on a diffident monitor, so when the tab becomes active I do not see it at all, because it is not on the main window. This is even worse when I go to preview a file.</p>
  
  <p>Icing on this cake:
  -If it would have an option to highlight the parent nodes of open files, i the example "controllers" and "content" folders would be highlighted as well.
  -If there was something that would do this for vs 2010 as well would be great.</p>
  
  <p>I am looking for all most any thing at this point, an extension, a style sheet some where to edit, or as a last resort a good reference to a "How to code Extensions for Visual studios" website.</p>
  
  <p>Edit: <br/>
  As a point Of clarification I am not looking for a way to locate a specific file in the solution explorer, I am looking for a way to make the files that are open look visually different, so that I know to look around a bit before thinking that VS2012 is crashing or the file is messed up. </p>