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Chapter 3, Navigating Visual Studio
#22 Hack the Mouse
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Hack the Mouse Hack #22
Assign commands to every button on your mouse.
Many people now use a mouse with five different buttons. Most likely you
use only two of those in Visual Studio (and the rest of them in Halo). Using
a freely available power toy, you can assign each of your mouse buttons to a
Visual Studio command. First, you will need to download and install the
VSMouseBindings power toy from http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide. Once
you have installed the power toy, it will add a new folder to your Tools
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Options window, which is shown in Figure 3-17.
These options are fairly straightforward. You will notice that you can set a
command for each of the different buttons on your mouse. Whenever you
click a button on your mouse, the command you assign to that button will
Figure 3-16. Task list with custom comments
Figure 3-17. VSMouseBindings Options