The less stuff there is mingled in the code, the easier it is for me to read and understand it. Otherwise, I get to focus only on the code (which is what I want 98% of the time!): Expand Selection command in Visual Studio allows us incrementally expand code block selection to the next logical block. Now, if I toggle the feature On, I see all of the extra stuff it shows me:

I’ve bound the command to the Shift+Alt+CL shortcut (for Code Lens). Editing the command in Visual Commander, I noticed Command01 right before the name I gave to the command:Īnd that’s what I needed to look for in the Keyboard dialog in VS: I thought it’d be the name of the command I created in Visual Commander, but that wasn’t the case. Depending on the Visual Studio version, we need to type only class names or the class names with namespaces. This has to be a fully compilable fragment so make sure that if you copy the code to the separate project, it would compile. One thing in that post that wasn’t clear is the name of the command I need to bind the shortcut to. Select the fragment of code we want to run. Gladly, I found information on this link that shows how I can create a shortcut to toggle CodeLens on and off (I’ve also found out about the Visual Commander extension, which I hadn’t seen before).

While it does provide good information and access to useful things, I hate it being on my face all the time! I rather it only show me the goodies when I need it. One of the things I think get in my way is the feature CodeLens in VS. Visual Studio can be very cluttered depending on how we set it up so much so that sometimes I feel like just open my cs files in Notepad! If you don’t have a Visual Studio Subscription, you can create one for free by clicking on “Create a new Microsoft account” on the login page.As I’ve mentioned before ( here, here, and here, at least), I’m very specific as to how much stuff I want to see on my screen as I’m working with code. To download any product from the following list, click the download button and log in with your Visual Studio Subscription account when prompted.

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