Visual Studio 2013 New Editor Features

Visual Studio 2013 New Editor Features:

Peek Definition

Peek Definition is one such feature that allows you to view definitions inline in the Editor without having to open a new document tab. To see it in action, right click on a symbol and click on the “Peek Definition” command in the context menu or invoke the keyboard shortcut Alt + F12.

Enhanced Scrollbar

The Enhanced Scrollbar has been one of the most popular Productivity Power Tools extensions and is now part of the Visual Studio 2013 product! The Enhanced Scrollbar provides you visual cues about your file on the vertical scrollbar. Markers on the scrollbar allow you to quickly view the location of errors, warnings, breakpoints, bookmarks, find results and other useful information in your file. Here, too, we focus on bringing information to your fingertips – you don’t have to scroll away from your current position to get information about other parts of your file.

Map Mode

Microosoft added a “Map mode” to the scrollbar which gives you some cool features, each of which you can customize:

1. 10,000 feet view of the code – a high level view of the code is overlaid on the scrollbar helping you understand the structure of the code in a glance.
2. Single click to scroll – clicking on any region of the scrollbar immediately takes you to that location in the file – this is a quick way to get to any location in your file.
3. Preview of a section of your file – hovering on any section of the scrollbar show a live preview of that part of the file inside a tooltip. This is handy when examining interesting parts of your file

Navigate To (Ctrl+,)

Using the new Navigate To, you type in any part of a symbol and can find its definition, using smart semantic search. You can also type in part of a file name in your solution and quickly switch to it, regardless of whether or not it was previously open.

Auto Brace Complete

The Auto brace complete feature automatically adds closing parenthesis, quotes, braces and brackets for you as you type code in the Editor. This was one of the popular Productivity Power Tools Features that we decided to include in the Visual Studio 2013.

Move Line Up/ Down (Alt Arrow-Up/ Arrow-Down)

Move Line Up/ Down feature allows you to quickly move single or multiple lines up and down using the keyboard shortcut Alt + Up Arrow and Alt + Down Arrow. This was another popular extension from Productivity Power Tools that we decided to bring forward for this release.

New IDE Features for JavaScript

In JavaScript, we added identifier highlighting - now when you select an identifier, such as a variable name or function call, references to it are highlighted in the current source file. We also added a new navigation bar that appears at the top of the editor window so you can more easily move through the primary functions and objects in your JavaScript source.

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