When I use block select via VS Code, I can select the following all.
Name
Country
Birthday
But with Visual Studio, I can only select rectangle area like:
Name
Coun
Birt
or (added to reply comment)
Name{get
Country{
Birthday
How to make Visual Studio work like VS Code?
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I mean, with VS Code I can use shift+ctrl+right to select jagged whole words in multi-line, but Visual Studio only select a rectangle area.
Hope you looking for an "Expand selection" in VS Code alternative for Visual Studio.
As in Microsoft documentation, you can use "Shift + Alt + =" this will select the block where the cursor point and if you press multiple time then it expand to a higher level as well.
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How do I select the next occurrence of the current selection in VS 2013 and VS 2015?
As a reference for what I want, in Sublime Text/Visual Studio Code, this is achieved by using CTRL+D.
Tried to google it, found similar hotkeys but not exactly what I need.
This is a bit late but this has been added. On mac it's COMMAND + D
When I moved from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010, there seems to only be a small section of pointing space (for the mouse) to click and drag and click again, to grab a few lines of code. This is about 8 pixels wide and is referred to as the Selection Margin. I often used this area in Visual Studio 2008 to select/copy/paste code. Now I have to rely on using the keyboard, which is not difficult, but if I'm using the mouse, Visual Studio is not very intuitive or usable. Is there a way to prevent the highlighting of lexical groups (where the expand/collapse or plus/minus sections are) so I can just select the lines of code instead? They seem to call this block highlighting. Most of the surface area to the left of the text in Visual Studio 2010 seems to be dedicated to the block highlighting. The text editor freezes when a lexical block of code is highlighted and I cannot use the right context menu. The right context menu is also only available from inside the text editor now, so I have to select my lines in that 8 pixel region, then move my mouse over to the right to copy. My productivity in Visual Studio 2010 has decreased substantially because of this change.
I'm wondering if anyone has written any extensions with the Visual Studio 2010 editor to fix these issues?
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/WriteExtensions.aspx
Options > Text Editor > All Languages > Show line numbers. This allows you to have more space to select and copy the lines, but you still must go over to the right (where the code is) to copy.
Have you tried to select in a so called 'Continuous Stream Mode' which is supported by VS 2010 by default? Here's what I mean -> Hold down the SHIFT key and click in the Selection Margin(located at the far left of the Editor window, to select a whole line.) to extend your selection line by line.
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Evgenia
Go into Notepad, Internet Explorer or most other applications that display or edit text. Triple click on some text. Windows will select the entire paragraph under the cursor.
This doesn't work in Visual Studio 2005.
How do I get triple click support in the Visual Studio text editor?
do VS 2008 or VS 2010 solve this?
Is there a macro, setting or plugin that will solve this?
I wrote an extension for this for Visual Studio 2010 that you can download from the VS Gallery or directly from the extension manager in Visual Studio, by searching for "triple click" or my name.
You can also read the blog post I wrote about it and check out the source, on github.
I haven't used it, but CodeProject has an article on SmartHelp 3.04 which mentions that you can triple click to select a whole line.
Also, from Craig Shoemaker's blog.
About VS 2010.
Further enhancements include the
ability to triple-click an expansive
element like a table and the editor
selects the entire table’s markup.
Want to surround that table with some
additional markup? Just start typing
with the table selected and your
markup is inserted around the selected
code.
The Eclipse IDE has a neat little feature that I really miss in Visual Studio.
If I place the cursor on a variable or method name, the IDE will automatically highlight all references to it in the current document within the relevant scope.
I can't seem to find an option to turn on similar behaviour in VS2008 or Resharper 4. I know VS has a Find Usages function, but I'd like to do it automatically on the fly.
Does anyone know of a free addin which will add this functionality?
If you're using ReSharper, you can highlight the usages in the file with Shift-Alt-F11. Place your cursor on the variable you want to find usages of, and press the Shift-Alt-F11 combination.
There is an add-in for Visual Studio that will do something similar called RockScroll.
When you double click on something, it will highlight all occurrences of the item you double clicked. It also changes the vertical scrollbar to a "syntax highlighted thumbnail view" showing an overview of where the item occurs in the file.
I know you mentioned ReSharper, but CodeRush has a nice references window that you can dock and let it search for things on-the-fly or on demand. As a bonus, you can select each usage and it will show you the context surrounding the usage. It also works for methods.
I mentioned CodeRush since they have an express edition, which looks like it includes that feature, but I haven't tried that edition.
Visual Studio 2010 has sorta implemented this, but the feature is somewhat lacking. There is a non-configurable delay between placing the cursor and highlighting.
The RockScroll Addin is not available for Visual Studio 2010 and above.
As a replacement, the free "Highlight all occurrences of selected word" plugin will highlight all occurences of the selected string after a doubleclick. There is no delay as with the native vs2010 highlighter.
It is string-based, which means it works inside comments and string literals.
Microsoft published a tool that sort of does what you want.
Some of my favourite features:
Enhanced Scrollbar
Auto Brace Completion
Ctrl + Click Go To Definition
Open Containing Folder
and the list goes on.
For Visual Studio 2010 and for Visual Studio 2012
In Delphi if I type "if" and space it automatically inserts the code snippet with an if statement block defined. I know in Visual Studio I can insert a snippet, but I have to either right-click and select "insert snippet", or hit CTRL-K followed by CTRL-X.
Is there a way to configure Visual Studio to automatically insert the snippet like Delphi does?
Press tab tab.