My wishlist for the Visual Studio's IDE
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While preparing for a migration course into Visual Studio development, I found myself thinking that while the loved Visual Studio is overall very good, there are some small things that could make the IDE even better. Currently, my personal wish list looks like the following:
- Have a default, two-key keyboard shortcut to comment a line (or set of lines) if it is not commented yet, or uncomment it if it is currently commented (toggle). Currently, Ctrl+E,C and Ctrl+E,U work fine, but there could a single command to do it all.
- In the code editor, implement a "Sync Edit" feature like in Delphi. Sort of a mini-refactoring, if you will.
- The toolbox should have a search box, to which you could type in few characters, and filter the components based on matching component names. And heck, implement on to the Properties window as well!
Do you have ideas that ought to make it to the Visual Studio IDE? Send me an e-mail, or better yet, report your ideas to the Connect web site (login required)! I'd be glad to hear your feedback.