A little VS bit I never knew existed.
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dandy72 wrote:
but it's one of those things I wanna turn off after about 20 minutes...
Exactly. Marc
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Not original to me - I was moderating a blog: Scroll bars Re-engineered[^] and had a "didn't know that" moment. You can change the VS scroll bars to give you a code overview by right clicking the bar and selecting "Map view" in the "Scroll bar options" - with a tooltip "readable" view. Handy! Once the blogs approved I'll upvote it, but I thought you might miss the blog if it scrolls off the front page too quickly.
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IntelliJ has something similar. you put your mouse pointer in the scrollbar area and it will give you a popup preview of that location. it's useful for looking at the compiler errors and warnings (which are highlighted in the scroll area, too).
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Yeah it's ugly and distracting ... it'd be better if it also collapsed respective sections when you collapse methods/regions - so you could better see the sections you are working on. Another half baked good idea.
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I like it just the way it is - set to narrow map keeps it discreet and you can see the errors you need to address and where you are working. One of the better innovations.
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dandy72 wrote:
but it's one of those things I wanna turn off after about 20 minutes...
Exactly. Marc
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It's one of this 1000-Shortcuts-in-Excel-you-need-to-know thing. There are so many features in VS that I will never use because I don't remember/know them. Do I miss them? Not really!
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IntelliJ has something similar. you put your mouse pointer in the scrollbar area and it will give you a popup preview of that location. it's useful for looking at the compiler errors and warnings (which are highlighted in the scroll area, too).
I find it useful in Intellij and haven't even looked for ways to turn it off :) Good that VS has the option (I've stopped using it since VS2013)
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Not original to me - I was moderating a blog: Scroll bars Re-engineered[^] and had a "didn't know that" moment. You can change the VS scroll bars to give you a code overview by right clicking the bar and selecting "Map view" in the "Scroll bar options" - with a tooltip "readable" view. Handy! Once the blogs approved I'll upvote it, but I thought you might miss the blog if it scrolls off the front page too quickly.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Cool! I will try it for some time and see if it does not get boring. :)
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I knew about this...badly wanted to like it...but it's one of those things I wanna turn off after about 20 minutes...
When writing code, I agree, this feature is probably of little use and may be distracting. When debugging? I can see turning it on and off as needed.
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When writing code, I agree, this feature is probably of little use and may be distracting. When debugging? I can see turning it on and off as needed.
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Not original to me - I was moderating a blog: Scroll bars Re-engineered[^] and had a "didn't know that" moment. You can change the VS scroll bars to give you a code overview by right clicking the bar and selecting "Map view" in the "Scroll bar options" - with a tooltip "readable" view. Handy! Once the blogs approved I'll upvote it, but I thought you might miss the blog if it scrolls off the front page too quickly.
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I use this all the time. The code view is nice, but my favorite feature of the code-view version of the scroll bar is you can single-click on the scroll bar and immediately be taken to that point in the code, instead of having to (hold down the mouse button | scroll up/down with the mouse wheel | use the page up/down keys on the keyboard) and scroll until you get where you want to go. Another way I use this is that you can see the entire file at a glance. So searching for any commented code so you can rip it out, or seeing how many // TODO: comments you have, any compile warnings, etc is really simple.
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I like it just the way it is - set to narrow map keeps it discreet and you can see the errors you need to address and where you are working. One of the better innovations.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
And use bookmarks to show areas you are interested in. They show up in the map.
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I knew about this...badly wanted to like it...but it's one of those things I wanna turn off after about 20 minutes...
Me too. I tried it just now and disliked it. Good decision from VS Team for making it turned off by default. It's way too distracting. I would rather use the good old Ctrl+F for navigation.
