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Quick Launch Tasks

Quick Launch Tasks

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Adds accessibility and settings tasks to the Quick Launch tool.
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Quick Tasks

Due to a new search replacing quick launch in Visual Studio 2019, this extension works only up till Visual Studio 2017.

The Quick Launch Tasks extension provides easy access to commonly used options (EG: toggling line numbers) as well as popular functionality to VS (EG: collapsing/expanding regions).  To activate Quick Tasks, access Quick Launch and write @tasks followed by one of the following options:

Option

Description

CollapseRegions

Collapses  all #region tags in the current document

ExpandRegion

Expands  all #region tags in the current document

TxtFont-

Decreases  the text editor’s font size by 2 (min 6)

TxtFont0

Resets  the text editor’s font size to the default 10

TxtFont+

Increases  the text editor’s font size by 2 (max 60)

TxtFontReset

Resets  all text editor font settings to their default values (based on current  theme)

EnvFont-

Decreases  the environment’s font size by 2 (min 5)

EnvFont0

Resets  the environment’s font size to the default 9

EnvFont+

Increases  the environment’s font size by 2 (max 59)

EnvFontReset

Resets  all environment font settings to their default values (based on current  theme)

InsTabsOff

Inserts  spaces instead of a tab whenever a tab is inserted (all languages)

InsTabsOn

Keeps  the tab that is inserted instead of inserting spaces (all languages)

LineNumOff

Turns  off line numbers in the text editor (all languages)

LineNumOn

Turns  on line numbers in the text editor (all languages)

PresentOff

Turns  off presenter mode and returns the environment and text editor fonts to their  pre-presentation values

PresentOn

Turns  on presenter mode, which increases environment and text editor font sizes, and  sets them to certain font families, so that VS is easier to see and read on a  projector

PresentEdit

Allows you to customize the Font family and Font size used by the PresentOn extension

ResetToBasic

Resets  VS to Visual Basic development settings

ResetToC++

Resets  VS to Visual C++ development settings

ResetToC#

Resets  VS to Visual C# development settings

ResetToF#

Resets  VS to Visual F# development settings

ResetToGeneral

Resets  VS to General development settings

ResetToJavaScript

Resets  VS to JavaScript for Windows 8 Apps development settings

ResetToLightSwitch

Resets  VS to LightSwitch development settings

ResetToSQL

Resets  VS to SQL Server development settings

ResetToWeb

Resets  VS to Web development settings

ResetToWebCode

Resets  VS to Web (Code Only) development settings

SwitchCode

Switches  between designer/code behind or header/source files, opening the file if

Necessary

TabSize-

Decreases  the tab and indent size by 2 (all languages)

TabSize0

Resets  the tab and indent size to the default 4 (all languages)

TabSize+

Increases  the tab and indent size by 2 (all languages)

WordWrapOff

Turns  off the text editor’s word wrap (all languages)

WordWrapOn

Turns  on the text editor’s word wrap (all languages)

NOTE: The ResetTo… tasks are added based on the languages installed with Visual Studio

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