Box Selection and Multi-Line Editing Demo

Demo of Box Selection and the new Multi-Line Editing functionality in Visual Studio 2010. This feature is not available in VS 2010 Beta1 but will be present in VS 2010 Beta2. For more details about box selection and multi-line editing, check out the original post on the VS Editor team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vseditor/archive/2009/05/25/the-new-box-selection-now-w....

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Science & Technology

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• VS2010
• Visual Studio
• Box Selection
• Multi-Line Editing
• Demo

[vseditor]

@DarklyRiddles: There isn't currently a column numbers feature in Visual Studio. It would be possible to implement something like that as an editor extension, but no such extension currently exists (that we're aware of) and there's no built-in capability for this in VS 2010.

[haveadot]

Huzzah! Large-scale code duplication will be easier than ever to create!

[aceoft]

Thank you for this feature! To the naysayers, not every block of code is a shining example of elegance. For example, updating legacy code you didn't write, or while editing text other than source code. Expand your horizons a bit and you'll find plenty of uses for such a feature.

[DarklyRiddles]

how do I show Columns in my source just like showing line numbers for code?

[Nercury]

If you need this feature, you are doing it wrong...

[Sl3dgY]

Just like UltraEdit has had for years! I note that the GTK code panel also already has this feature (Geany supports box selection/edit/paste).

[wickens85]

When you renamed those fields it didn't popup asking if you wanted to refactor/rename like VS2008 does. I assume it would do that if those variables were in use somewhere?

[gesser60]

It makes a good demo, although I wonder if I'll use it.