Document Health for Visual Studio

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A lightweight Visual Studio extension that displays document health status (errors, warnings, and messages) as an icon above the vertical scroll bar.

Features

An icon at the top of the scroll bar shows your document's health:

Tooltip showing error and warning counts

Hover over the icon to see the exact count of errors, warnings, and messages.

No errors indicator

This extension replaces the built-in Document Health Indicator at the bottom left of the editor, freeing up space for the horizontal scrollbar.

Built-in indicator comparison

Use Visual Studio's built-in shortcuts to navigate between issues:

You can also click the icon to jump to the next error, or right-click to access additional options:

Configure the extension under Tools → Options → Environment → Document Health:

Option	Description	Default
Update delay (ms)	Delay before updating the indicator after changes. Higher values improve performance during rapid typing.	250
Show messages count	Include suggestions and informational messages in the tooltip count.	true

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