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KevinB

Just seen this over on MSDN. It is discussion of a new feature for Visual Studio Next. It is supposed to give you a visual representation of the file you are working on so you can quickly spot errors and move around your file quickly.

Anyone got any opinions or thoughts on it?

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vslangfutures/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Document%20Map%20Margin

Kevin

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Looks pretty useful-- the marker bar view has actually been part of Eclipse and XCode for ages (and I'm sure some other IDEs implement it too), but I haven't seen a thumbnail view before-- that could be pretty handy.

If they want extra points, they can make the marker bar view actually line up with the scroll bar (Eclipse's bar doesn't line up with the scroll bar, which can be annoying, and XCode's view is inside the scroll bar, which means any markers inside the current view are completely hidden).

BHpaddock

In reply to CannotResolveSymbol

#Aug 13th, 2008 @ 1:31 PM

Ooooh.

I want it to only show up while I'm dragging the scroll thumb around. I wonder if they'll make that an option.

turrican
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Amazing!

SlackmasterK
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The thumbnail idea is awesome. When I've got a long codefile (common) and the core logic is in a loop six levels deep (Uncommon, but it happens), it'll be easy to find!

Dr Herbie
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In reply to SlackmasterK

#Aug 13th, 2008 @ 10:37 PM

Oh, you mean like Rockscroll, which I've been using in VS2005 for weeks now ...

A little bit basic, doesn't handle collapsed regions, but still useful.

Herbie

alexmac

In reply to Dr Herbie

#Aug 13th, 2008 @ 11:40 PM

That looks a very cool new feature

Ion Todirel
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In reply to Dr Herbie

#Aug 13th, 2008 @ 11:40 PM

yeah, I wanted to mentioned it too... it's pretty cool, but it does some strange changes to the editor and sometimes brakes syntax highlighting + the regions buggy , I used it for some time...