Alt-Select is new for VS2010?
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Just reading the April MSDN Magazine[^] It says "Another nice new feature in the Visual Studio 2010 editor is the ability to box select and edit a vertical block of text. ... How It Works: Press and hold down the Alt key and make the vertical selection you want to edit..." Wow, very useful, but I'm sure I've been using Alt-Select for vertical blocks since Visual Studio 6! I remember it not being in VS 1.5 - which was very annoying.
Team Code Project[^] :cool:
It’s been 13 years since Microsoft first rolled out Visual Studio, its long-running flagship integrated development environment. The 1997 inaugural release began the alignment of versions 5 of Visual Basic and Visual C++ into a common IDE.
My memory is very hazy, but that's not my recollection of VS97 or 6. There was no common IDE between VB, VC++ or any of the other products or any attempt to combine them into one as far as I can recall.
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It’s been 13 years since Microsoft first rolled out Visual Studio, its long-running flagship integrated development environment. The 1997 inaugural release began the alignment of versions 5 of Visual Basic and Visual C++ into a common IDE.
My memory is very hazy, but that's not my recollection of VS97 or 6. There was no common IDE between VB, VC++ or any of the other products or any attempt to combine them into one as far as I can recall.
martin_hughes wrote:
There was no common IDE between VB, VC++ or any of the other products or any attempt to combine them into one as far as I can recall
There were partial attempts. IIRC, In VS 97 VC++, J++ and InterDev all used the Developer Studio shell. In VS 6 J++ and InterDev used the Microsoft Development Environment shell. The latter was apparently derived from the code base for VB 6 but not rolled into VB 6 itself. You can tell that this was the prototype for the Visual Studio .NET shell that eventually emerged.
Kevin
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It’s been 13 years since Microsoft first rolled out Visual Studio, its long-running flagship integrated development environment. The 1997 inaugural release began the alignment of versions 5 of Visual Basic and Visual C++ into a common IDE.
My memory is very hazy, but that's not my recollection of VS97 or 6. There was no common IDE between VB, VC++ or any of the other products or any attempt to combine them into one as far as I can recall.
The VS6 IDE for VS Interdev and VJ++ was the first step to unify the IDEs. The code of VS Interdev was the foundation of VS2001 which was a common IDE for C++, VB and Web.
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Just reading the April MSDN Magazine[^] It says "Another nice new feature in the Visual Studio 2010 editor is the ability to box select and edit a vertical block of text. ... How It Works: Press and hold down the Alt key and make the vertical selection you want to edit..." Wow, very useful, but I'm sure I've been using Alt-Select for vertical blocks since Visual Studio 6! I remember it not being in VS 1.5 - which was very annoying.
Team Code Project[^] :cool:
Nigel Savidge wrote:
I'm sure I've been using Alt-Select for vertical blocks since Visual Studio 6
Yes, it was a feature of Developer Studio. It was probably in VC++ 4 and 5 as well but I'm not certain. It was carried over into the VS .NET IDE.
Kevin
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The VS6 IDE for VS Interdev and VJ++ was the first step to unify the IDEs. The code of VS Interdev was the foundation of VS2001 which was a common IDE for C++, VB and Web.
Ah, well that explains it - the bits of VS97 I rarely ever touched :)
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Keep reading - it's block edit, not block select: "How It Works Press and hold down the Alt key and make the vertical selection you want to edit, The highlighted area will function just like a single-line edit, but the edits will be duplicated simultaneously on all selected lines, as shown in Figure 2" p13, bottom left
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It's always been block edit, it may have been extended in VS2010 but the vertical block copy and paste has always been very useful, although that doesn't seem to work quite as it used to.
Team Code Project[^] :cool:
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It's always been block edit, it may have been extended in VS2010 but the vertical block copy and paste has always been very useful, although that doesn't seem to work quite as it used to.
Team Code Project[^] :cool:
I've just tried in VS2008 and it definitely doesn't work the same. Just to clarify, suppose I've got a list of variables:
int abc; int abc1; int abc2; int abc3; int abc4; int abc5;and I block select all of the 'a' characters in the variable name (assume I've selected from the top down). In VS2008, if with this block selected I type 'xyz' the screen would show:int bc; int bc1; int bc2; int bc3; int bc4; int xyzbc5;but in VS2010 it would show:int xyzbc; int xyzbc1; int xyzbc2; int xyzbc3; int xyzbc4; int xyzbc5;so rather than having to edit by pressing [cursor-up][cursor-left][cursor-left][cursor-left][x][y][z] for each row, I can block edit.Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
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I've just tried in VS2008 and it definitely doesn't work the same. Just to clarify, suppose I've got a list of variables:
int abc; int abc1; int abc2; int abc3; int abc4; int abc5;and I block select all of the 'a' characters in the variable name (assume I've selected from the top down). In VS2008, if with this block selected I type 'xyz' the screen would show:int bc; int bc1; int bc2; int bc3; int bc4; int xyzbc5;but in VS2010 it would show:int xyzbc; int xyzbc1; int xyzbc2; int xyzbc3; int xyzbc4; int xyzbc5;so rather than having to edit by pressing [cursor-up][cursor-left][cursor-left][cursor-left][x][y][z] for each row, I can block edit.Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
If that's new, that *is* pretty cool.
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Keep reading - it's block edit, not block select: "How It Works Press and hold down the Alt key and make the vertical selection you want to edit, The highlighted area will function just like a single-line edit, but the edits will be duplicated simultaneously on all selected lines, as shown in Figure 2" p13, bottom left
Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
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I've just tried in VS2008 and it definitely doesn't work the same. Just to clarify, suppose I've got a list of variables:
int abc; int abc1; int abc2; int abc3; int abc4; int abc5;and I block select all of the 'a' characters in the variable name (assume I've selected from the top down). In VS2008, if with this block selected I type 'xyz' the screen would show:int bc; int bc1; int bc2; int bc3; int bc4; int xyzbc5;but in VS2010 it would show:int xyzbc; int xyzbc1; int xyzbc2; int xyzbc3; int xyzbc4; int xyzbc5;so rather than having to edit by pressing [cursor-up][cursor-left][cursor-left][cursor-left][x][y][z] for each row, I can block edit.Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Oh wow! That will save me from either having to get better at VS Search and Replace regex, or do my frequent little findger-cursor coordination exercises.