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Visual Studio Hacks
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Visual Studio Hacks

by James Avery
March 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
19h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Add Guidelines to the Text Editor #10
Chapter 2, Master the Editor
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From the Regions Dialog, you can select the region you want to add the
selected code to or you can decide to add it to a new region and click the
Add New Region checkbox. This is particularly useful if you are adding a
new property to the class; instead of opening the existing region and
appending it to the end, you can write the property anywhere you want and
then select it and move it to that region.
The Regions Add-in is a valuable tool that makes working with regions even
easier than it already is.
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Add Guidelines to the Text Editor Hack #10
If you’ve got to have everything line up just right, turn on guidelines and get
everything pixel perfect.
One of the features missing from the text editor in Visual Studio is the abil-
ity to add vertical guidelines. Vertical guidelines are thin vertical lines that
can be used as visual guides when aligning text. This feature is not actually
missing though—using a simple registry hack, you can add up to 13 differ-
ent guidelines to Visual Studio’s text editor.
When editing the registry, you should always back up your
registry or use the alternative registry method
[Hack #30].
To add guidelines:
1. Close Visual Studio.
2. Open regedit (Start
Run type regedit).
Figure 2-20. Regions Dialog
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3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\ ...
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