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Before Visual Studio 2026 Insiders [11206.111], there wasn't much spacing between items in Solution Explorer - between each item, there was little space, which made it easier to navigate.

After the aforementioned update, Solution Explorer has changed. There is a lot of vertical spacing between each item in Solution Explorer now. See the image below.

Spacing between items in Solution Explorer

It makes navigating much harder, and it is a nightmare when working with many source files in one directory, because now, it requires lots of scrolling for simple actions.

Lots of files in one folder

Before that, I didn't even have to scroll to see all files in this folder, but now, all of them don't even fit into the Solution Explorer tool window pane of that size.

Is it possible to configure Visual Studio in a way to make the spacing between each item in Solution Explorer smaller?

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Unfortunately, there is no actual way to make this happen. The spacing between each Solution Explorer item is because of the Solution Explorer making use of the Fluent design, which scales items more (before that update, Solution Explorer used Visual Studio 2022-style items). Microsoft is slowly making use of Fluent theme across their products, and Visual Studio is one of the biggest priorities to make it happen, and because Solution Explorer now uses Fluent theme, no configuration option is available. There is no setting to change this.

Thankfully, there is feedback on this, created immediately after the update was enrolled, and it's possible that Microsoft will add a way to either roll back the change or allow users to edit spacing, but as of now, there isn't a way to change this. I will edit this answer when there is an update.

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