Did you know that Visual Studio offers two different selection models Stream and Box?
Stream selection is what everyone is familiar with using Shift+Arrow Key.
Box selection allows you to manually select columns and lines at the same time. Just hold down Shift+Alt+Arrow Key, and you’ll quickly get the feel for box selection. Cut, Copy, Paste… it all still works, but just keep track of where you started to select the text. Ah, it brings back testing memories…
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SHIFT+ALT+Mouse also works too…
I don’t often have the pleaseure of writing code – but with my team all on holiday today I had to get back to the ‘coal face’. Anyway I could not get VS2008 to do the box/column select that I used to do in VC6 so I was pretty delighted that Google brought me to this tip. So thanks!