Microsoft has made accessible its Productivity Power Tools extensions for its upcoming Visual Studio 2022 IDE, offering capabilities starting from HTML copying to error message viewing.
Available for obtain from the Visual Studio Marketplace, the Productivity Power Tools (PPT) for Visual Studio 2022 pack is a set of extensions meant to enhance general productiveness. Visual Studio 2022, now in a preview stage, is a deliberate 64-bit model of the IDE. The suite was unveiled on August 31 and consists of the next extensions:
- Copy as HTML assists with copying and pasting of code snippets, sustaining the code’s formatting when pasting it right into a textual content doc. This saves builders from having to manually make corrections when unique formatting is misplaced whereas pasting right into a doc.
- Align Assignments aligns task statements utilizing Crl+Alt+].
- Solution Error Visualizer lets builders view error messages that may often be seen within the Error List window by hovering over a corresponding answer, venture, or code file. Error, warning, and message squiggles are added to the Solution Explorer.
- Shrink Empty Lines shrinks strains that comprise neither textual content nor numbers, enabling extra strains to be displayed within the editor.
- Double-Click Maximize maximizes and docks window headers.
- Fix Mixed Tabs helps handle white house inside a doc.
- Match Margin lets builders spotlight textual content in code and examine all places the place that textual content is used throughout the editor and the editor margin.
- Middle Click Scroll permits scrolling within the editor pane utilizing the middle-click mouse button.
- Peek Help addresses an inefficiency that happens when setting the cursor on language or framework key phrases and redirecting to a browser window containing corresponding assist info. The extension embeds the identical assist info within the editor when utilizing ALT+F1 so builders don’t must navigate away from work.
- Time Stamp Margin provides a time stamp margin to the debug output window.
Developers ought to know that some acquainted PPT extensions, resembling Go To Definition, Quick Launch Tasks, and Power Commands are not included within the extension pack as a result of they’ve change into built-in Visual Studio options.
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