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Did you know… How to do column selection

Did you know that Visual Studio has two different selection models?  Stream and Box.  Stream selection is what everyone is familiar with.  Hold down the shift key and arrow left, right, up, or down.  Box selection allows you to manually select columns and lines at the same time.  Probably not the best explanation of box selection, but hey, it was worth a try.  =)

 

To use box selection, just hold down Shift-Alt and then move the arrow keys around. You’ll quickly get the feel for box selection.

 

Happy Editing!

 

 

 

Posted: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:42 AM by saraford

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Ayende Rahien said:

This is also very useful with the mouse, press Alt when selecting with the mouse.
Highly useful.
# April 1, 2005 11:09 AM

D. Philippe said:

This is the same thing as Edit.SelectColumn, right? (in my IDE, eVC, this is Ctrl + Shift + F8)
# April 1, 2005 11:16 AM

al havrilla said:

great stuff .. your's is the first blog i check every morning .. thanks
# April 1, 2005 12:05 PM

Jan Schreuder on .Net said:

# April 20, 2005 3:08 AM
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