Visual Studio has a command line argument you can specify to open a file in an existing instance of VS.

Just run devenv /edit <filename> and the file will open in the IDE.

You could also create a VSEdit command if you find yourself using this feature a lot.  Just create a file called "VSEdit.cmd" (you can use notepad to do this) with the following:

@"devenv.exe" /edit %*

provided you already have %Program Files%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE added to your system PATH environment variable. And, of course, you might want to place this VSEdit.cmd in a directory that’s in your PATH or add it.

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