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ktr
two sides to everything

When you're programming, your brain is running 3000 miles an hour, and you're "in the zone," you go to copy something to the clipboard (cause ya know... its faster) then you're holding this precious peice of code in the clipboard... do you sometimes forget what it is lol... cause I do all the time. I don't know.. maybe I'm crazy... Expressionless

serishema
The Last Hacker Chick

yeah i have this problem. the other problem i have is where i copy again with something important in the clipboard and lose what's already there.

Hey anyone on the VS team reading this, here's a feature that would save my coding day - you know the office clipboard pane. Please put that into VS so it collects the things you copy and paste like office does.

Would kiss the dev who gets that in there Tongue Out

(oh did i really say that)/.

JKelley
Is it sad that my badge picture is one of the best ones I have of myself?

If it's not on the product road map it sounds like a good Power Toy idea if there isn't an add-in already. "Advanced Clipboard Tool". I'll put it in our database of ideas.

Oh, and in case it needed saying, we don't accept, "favors". Smiley

We get paid to write these tools.

JasonB

serishema wrote:

Hey anyone on the VS team reading this, here's a feature that would save my coding day - you know the office clipboard pane. Please put that into VS so it collects the things you copy and paste like office does.

Would kiss the dev who gets that in there
(oh did i really say that)/.

Yah - I would love this too. (i aint gonna kiss yer tho)

Axyun

The feature you guys are looking for is already in the IDE, just in a slightly different form. You can highlight a section of code and drag it to the toolbox. It will remain there until you remove it yourself. You can do this multiple times for different segments of code. Each drag-drop will create a new entry in the toolbox. You can also rename each segment to something more meaningful than the default name.

To paste the code, just drag the item from the toolbox to the code window.

Very handy feature. Cool

Ang3lFir3
Codito Ergo Sum

Axyun wrote:
The feature you guys are looking for is already in the IDE, just in a slightly different form. You can highlight a section of code and drag it to the toolbox. It will remain there until you remove it yourself. You can do this multiple times for different segments of code. Each drag-drop will create a new entry in the toolbox. You can also rename each segment to something more meaningful than the default name.

To paste the code, just drag the item from the toolbox to the code window.

Very handy feature.

One I often see used during demos ... and one I often forget about ...

I wouldn't mind having like a "Send to WhiteBoard/ToolBox" or something in a context menu tho.... (say ctrl+alt+c as well [Sorry if its already in use])

I Often keep a notepad instance open for emptying my clipboard when im not sure if there is anything important on it.... I also can collect snippets from all kinds of stuff along with notes to myself etc....

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

littleguru made a util... maybe someone can adapt it into a IDE plugin.

stevo_
Human after all

Axyun wrote:
The feature you guys are looking for is already in the IDE, just in a slightly different form. You can highlight a section of code and drag it to the toolbox. It will remain there until you remove it yourself. You can do this multiple times for different segments of code. Each drag-drop will create a new entry in the toolbox. You can also rename each segment to something more meaningful than the default name.

To paste the code, just drag the item from the toolbox to the code window.

Very handy feature.

Thats cool, but I think people want something more passive like the clipboard history.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

stevo_ wrote:

Axyun wrote: The feature you guys are looking for is already in the IDE, just in a slightly different form. You can highlight a section of code and drag it to the toolbox. It will remain there until you remove it yourself. You can do this multiple times for different segments of code. Each drag-drop will create a new entry in the toolbox. You can also rename each segment to something more meaningful than the default name.

To paste the code, just drag the item from the toolbox to the code window.

Very handy feature.

Thats cool, but I think people want something more passive like the clipboard history.

As Minh mentioned I did an app that does that. It's uploaded to the sandbox (includes all source code): http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=241239#241239

rhm

stevo_ wrote:

Axyun wrote:The feature you guys are looking for is already in the IDE, just in a slightly different form. You can highlight a section of code and drag it to the toolbox. It will remain there until you remove it yourself. You can do this multiple times for different segments of code. Each drag-drop will create a new entry in the toolbox. You can also rename each segment to something more meaningful than the default name.

To paste the code, just drag the item from the toolbox to the code window.

Very handy feature.

Thats cool, but I think people want something more passive like the clipboard history.

There was one exactly like that in VS2003. The section "Clipboard ring" in the toolbox contained all the things you'd copied to the clipboard so you could go back and paste things from the past.

rhm

stevo_ wrote:

Axyun wrote:The feature you guys are looking for is already in the IDE, just in a slightly different form. You can highlight a section of code and drag it to the toolbox. It will remain there until you remove it yourself. You can do this multiple times for different segments of code. Each drag-drop will create a new entry in the toolbox. You can also rename each segment to something more meaningful than the default name.

To paste the code, just drag the item from the toolbox to the code window.

Very handy feature.

Thats cool, but I think people want something more passive like the clipboard history.

There was one exactly like that in VS2003. The section "Clipboard ring" in the toolbox contained all the things you'd copied to the clipboard so you could go back and paste things from the past.

Ion Todirel
buuu

Ctrl + C - copy,
Ctrl + V - paste,
Ctrl + Shft + V - cycle clipboard ring

use them all the time.

dahat

As horribly non-geek and in efficient as it is... like Ang3lFir3 I often will keep a copy of notepad open and use it as my temp scratch pad for either small backups or storing of alternate ideas in both a text and code form.

shreyasonline
Push The Limits !

I use Notepad and even the RUN window text box as a temperory storage! Wink

Shreyas Zare

Angus
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I use Notepad to store code, or extended pieces of text, and that way, I can usually understand what they are doing, and what their purpose is.

Angus Higgins

Kevin Daly
Of course it *looks* like my nick is just my name, but actually, well, it's just my name.

I have that problem in all sorts of areas, the most common being opening up a browser window, going to type something in the search box and suddenly having no idea what it was I intended to look for.
And I've always been like that, so it's not age.

sskokku

One of the best tools of all time... MS OneNote....
I use it all the time when I want to save stuff onto the clipboard.

No need to save it explicitly...and you can remove it at will.