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The Visual Studio IDE is one of the most advanced development environments that allow the development any type of software. However, even this complex and multipurpose tools still can receive some improvements. This extension focus on a specific feature that Visual Studio (and many other Windows tools) lack: more than one clipboard slot to store data. Although the traditional clipboard is very useful, in particular to those who edit code in the text format, almost every tool for the Windows, Linux or Mac OS platform only provide one slot to cut/copy and pasta data. The advantages of having more than one clipboard slot are twofold: allow the user to retain more data in memory for later use and avoid the non-intentional replacement of what is already on the only clipboard slot. Despite the fact that developers are accustomed to work with a single copy/past container, there is no technical reason to provide only one area that store temporary data that can be used when working with code. Based on this context the MultiSlotClipboard is an extension to Visual Studio 2013 that allows five extra clipboard slots to copy/cut and paste data on the code. Each new slot contains a circular history of the last ten data items stored. The source code of this project is available at https://github.com/pichiliani/MultiSlotClipboard and the description of the source code is available as an instructable on this link:http://www.instructables.com/id/MultiSlot-Clipboard/. |
