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One feature I like most in Visual Studio 2003 is their Document Outline Panel. I usually abuse this feature on my JavaScript code to easily see and jump through my functions.

Though the Document Outline Panel is also included in Visual Studio 2005, it now doesn’t support outlining for JavaScript code.

Good thing Evgeny Kleiman created an add-in for VS2005 that creates a treeview structure of the client script that is currently loaded in VS’s IDE much like the in VS2003. You can found this in the Visual Studio .Net Add-Ins Group at Yahoo! Groups.  The file also contains the add-in’s source code but for those who just want the add-in file, you can download it here.

Installation is straightforward.

1. Copy the ScriptOutline.AddIn and ScriptOutline.dll files in the addin folder of Visual Studio 2005

• For XP users:
   C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Addins
•  For Vista users:
   C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Addins

2. Open Visual Studio 2005 then on the menu go to Tools > Add-in Manager…

3. Check the ScriptOutline Checkbox then click OK.

4. The ScriptOutline panel will open. This panel, like any other panel, can be docked on any sides of the IDE.

Happy scripting!