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RockScroll: my new favourite Visual Studio Add-In

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Thanks to Kristine Middlemiss, from our DevTech Media & Entertainment team, for bringing this very cool application to my attention.

There a few Visual Studio Add-Ins that I can no longer do without. I use CopySourceAsHtml for every blog post of mine that includes source code, and I'm now just beginning to form a similar dependency on RockScroll. This Add-In integrates with Visual Studio (in my case 2008, as I'm typically slow to install the latest & greatest VS release) to display a thumbnail view of your current source file in a fattened, still perfectly functional scrollbar:

RockScroll in actionThis tool is very useful, indeed, when navigating very large source files.

4 responses to “RockScroll: my new favourite Visual Studio Add-In”

  1. twitter.com/CADbloke Avatar
    twitter.com/CADbloke

    There is a similar addin for Visual Studio 2010 at visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/465a0d53-5133-4edd-a0cd-94484fe3d853

    Disclaimer: I haven't tried it myself

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  2. MBR Avatar
    MBR

    I have only 2010 at this point and it doesn't seem to show up in the extensions there 🙁

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  3. Steve Johnson Avatar
    Steve Johnson

    Cool! When can we expect this to be added to the Visual LISP interface?

    Yes, this is a joke, sadly.

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  4. KH Leow Avatar
    KH Leow

    I really wish Microsoft Word / OpenOffice Writer has this feature too, as well as tabbed windows. Somehow I feel like these doc tools are deprived of competition. They'll need sort of like the "browser wars" to help them improve.

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