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Hot Settings

Hot Settings

Justin Clareburt

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Menus and Toolbars that expose Visual Studio settings
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Hot Settings

Menus and Toolbars that expose Visual Studio settings.

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Provides View and Scrollbar menus on Editor context menu

Editor Context Menu screenshot

Editor Margin context menu to turn on/off line numbers, track changes, and other editor margins

Editor Margin Menu screenshot

Includes Hot Settings toolbar for quick access to turn on/off settings.

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Includes button in Solution Explorer to toggle Track Active Items in Solution Explorer (Sync with Current File)

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Note: Error tips on status bar now moved to new extension: Hot Status

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Intended to expose the following settings:

Editor Margin Settings (Editor margin context menu)

  • Indicator margin (glyph margin) (Text editor setting)
    • Contains breakpoints
    • Contains bookmarks
    • Also used by 3rd party extensions like Inherit Margin
  • Line numbers (Language specific setting)
  • Quick Actions / Lightbulb Margin (future ?)
  • Selection margin (Text editor setting) ? Track changes (separate item)
  • Git Diff Margin (need 3rd party extension)
  • Outlining (Edit->Outlining Cmd, C#->Advanced (default))
  • Live Unit Testing (VS2017)
  • Annotate (Blame)

General Settings (Editor window context menu)

  • Navigation Bar (language specific)
  • Code Lens [Enterprise only] (Language specific)
  • Indent guides [PPT/VS2017]
  • White space (Edit Advanced Cmd)
  • Word wrap (Edit Advanced Cmd) ? Virtual glyphs
  • Highlight current line (Text editor setting)
  • Automatic delimiter highlighting (Text editor setting)
  • Show procedure line separator (C#/Basic->Advanced)
  • Show completion list [with keywords / code snippets] (C#->IntelliSense)
  • Show line endings (need 3rd party extension)
  • Highlight references to [symbol/keyword] under cursor (C#->Advanced)
  • IntelliSense squiggles (Basic)

Scrollbar (Vertical scrollbar context menu)

  • Show changes
  • Show marks
  • Show errors
  • Show caret position

Settings Toolbar

  • Contain a mix of settings from all groups above

View Error Info

  • Show error/warning text on status bar
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