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  1. Allow multi split window or view on the one code file

    You can now split the editing window of code file horizontally. But allow those with larger monitor to split the windows many times both horizontally and vertically. The easy way may be allow the same file to be opened multiple times. Maybe an option to allow files to be opened multiple time without asking; with asking; or not (as it now).

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      2 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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      • Middle mouse button click on word for go to definition (like F12)

        If I could click with the middle mouse button when the mouse is on a type or method or anything, then the same should happen if i right click on it and select go to definition or if im pressing F12.

        This way I could navigate through the code jusing the mouse only! (Navigate backward and forward already works with the two extra buttons (mouse button 4 and 5 on the side of the mouse)) (Would be faster than searching for the F12, escpecially in case of laptops for example, because I have to look on the keyboard to see…

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        • Improve Dark Theme text copying

          When I copying text from dark theme and paste into Lync there is no background so I don't see white color on white background. It will be nice to have ability to copy source with standard formatting so it can be easily pasted to Lync, Word or PowerPoint with the light theme.

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          • Add file extension option to search box.

            In Find and Replace dialog add new field to set the extension of files for search. For example, find all strings "hello" in *.css files.

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            • Reflect renaming ASP files in code behind (refactoring)

              When renaming a file in an ASP project, it would be great to have the class name in the code behind automatically reflect this change.
              For example, after renaming "MyPage.aspx" into "MySecondPage.aspx" in the editor, the class name in the code-behind would be renamed as well. Currently it will still be called "MyPage".

              In extent to this, when renaming a ASCX file, it would be nice to have not only its class name renamed, but also the tag names on the pages that use this ASCX file.

              IMO, this would allow more effective refactoring.

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              • implement an auto closing brace feature

                Coming from an OS X background and therefore having used Xcode often, it has always been nice having the IDE automatically close my braces when I declare a method or if statement etc... Now having moved to VS I miss this a lot

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                • Add collapsable HTML tag functionality to VS2012 HTML Editor

                  I seem to recall being able to collapse HTML tags previously but now it doesnt appear to be possible.

                  For example:

                  <div>
                  <p>some content</p>
                  <p>some more content</p>
                  <p>even more content</p>
                  </div>

                  Should collapse to:

                  <div>[...]

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                  • When opening a large minimized CSS file, Visual Studio 2010 crashes.

                    When opening a large minimized CSS file, Visual Studio 2010 crashes. It would be nice if when opening a large CSS file, that appears to be only on one line, that Visual Studio wouldn't crash, and maybe gave options for reformatting the content.

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                    • Increase text cursor thickness in editor windows

                      From the description of the Productivity Power Tools extension: "As the resolution of monitors increases, it’s becoming more difficult to find the caret in the code editor." As a counter measure I suggest making the text cursor better visible by increasing its thickness from the current one pixel (that's getting thinner and thinner on high resolution monitors!) by two pixels or maybe even a configurable value. Several other text editor applications use a 2 pixel wide caret/cursor and it makes a huge difference.

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                      • Allow history in "Find Symbol Results" (Find all references)

                        Often, when I'm exploring code, I use Find all references, then drill down a bit more, do another Find all references, and 'lose' the first one. It would be a lot easier if you could do 'Back' and 'Forwards' through the history of the symbol results.

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                        • Find in files results should truncate long lines.

                          When using the 'Find in Files' option under 'Find and Replace', you search for a word and the 'Find Results' window lists in raw text the results. It also displays the line the result was found on. However, if the line is very long (for example in a minified CSS file that has no line breaks) the ENTIRE line is given rather than just a short snippet around the searched result.

                          As the results are not columated, this makes the tool impossible to use as the results will be mixed in amongst thousands of lines of source code where such…

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                          • Add Expand/Collapse All to Toolbox Panel's Context Menu

                            When I open a large solution which have many toolboxed items (a WF4 based solution for ex.), Studio shows Toolbox Menu items in expanded state at default. If I have quite many namespaces, this is a pain to collapse'em all by hand every times when the solution opens.

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                            • Add code folding for all code blocks like in Notepad++

                              It would be great to fold all kind of code blocks and not just methods like you can do it in Notepad++.

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                                  • Go to construct definition

                                    Just like right click goto definition, it would be great to be able to right click on an "end if" and go to the actual "if" statement. This would be useful with loops and other constructs as well. Or, when hovering over an "end if" you could show the "if" as a tooltip.

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                                    • Auto brace, bracket, parentheses completion for VS11

                                      The title says it all. Every ******* IDE has it except VS. It's ridiculous since it's one of the most basic features.

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                                      • Provide better out-of-the-box code comparison tool

                                        When performing code comparisons from within Visual Studio, the default code comparison tool is still the original source code comparison tool that shipped with Visual SourceSafe. Instead, a more sophisticated and modern code comparison tool should be shipped out-of-the-box with Visual Studio rather than having to resort to 3rd party comparison tools such as Beyond Compare.

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                                        • Support the same intellisense features in XAML editor as are provided in the code editor

                                          Currently in VS2010 intellisense doesn't behave the same between the code editor and XAML which is unfortunate. I've grown used to the partial match (smart match?) style intellisense in the code editor and would like it to be available and enabled by default in XAML. For more information see Karl Shiflett's XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension for VS 2010.

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