Visual Studio Hacks

Enhance the Tabs in Visual Studio #23

Chapter 3, Navigating Visual Studio

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be executed. Figure 3-17 shows some of my favorite settings, making undo

and redo easily accessible on the Back and Forward buttons, and also put-

ting BuildSolution on the middle button. You can configure the mouse to

execute whatever commands make sense for you.

These are the same commands that you use in the Com-

mand window

[Hack #46] and when creating keyboard short-

cuts

[Hack #24]. Any command that you can use from the

command window or assign to a keyboard shortcut can be

assigned to one of your mouse buttons.

Just as when working with shortcut keys, you can set the scope of your com-

mand assignments. Using the drop-down labeled “Use this mouse shortcut

in:”, you can set the scope of your command. The available scope settings

are Global, HTML Source Editor, HTML Designer, and Source Editor.

When determining scope, the more specific settings will override the global

settings. You might have the middle button configured to be BuildSolution

at the global level, but set to be OpenFile in the source editor. This means

that the setting for the source editor will override the global settings; if you

click the middle button on your mouse in source code view, the OpenFile

command will be called.

The VSMouseBindings power toy is easy to download, easy to use, and can

definitely make it easier to move around in Visual Studio. ...