{"id":2343,"date":"2010-03-10T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2010\/03\/10\/tips-and-tricks-clipboard-ring-and-toolbox-snippets\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:39:42","slug":"tips-and-tricks-clipboard-ring-and-toolbox-snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/tips-and-tricks-clipboard-ring-and-toolbox-snippets\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips and Tricks: Clipboard Ring and Toolbox Snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was spending some time responding to Connect<\/a> bugs the other day when I ran across this suggestion<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt would be nice to have a clip board history window that could be next to the control toolbox as a nice utility window. (Often in presentations I see Microsoft presenters using a custom clipboard tool for such a purpose).<\/em><\/p>\n

Many times I wish I could go back to something I copied & pasted just a few minutes ago, then to have to go and copy the same text all over again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Turns out that Visual Studio already has this \u201chidden\u201d <\/em>feature.  It\u2019s called the Clipboard Ring<\/a>.  If you copy a number of items to the clipboard, pressing [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[V] <\/strong>will paste the last text that was copied, but it will also highlight the pasted phrase.  Continue holding down [Ctrl]+[Shift] <\/strong>and press [V] <\/strong>again.  This will cause that highlighted section to cycle through the other items on the clipboard.  This is extremely useful when you have to copy multiple lines of separate text to a new document.  <\/p>\n

Now, you might be saying, \u201cGreat, but what if I want to save a piece of code that I use frequently in multiple places?  I don\u2019t want to have to cycle through the clipboard ring every time.\u201d  Well, there\u2019s also a feature for that<\/a>!  If you highlight a section of code (or text) and drag it to the Toolbox, VS will create a “snippet\u201d (not to be confused with code snippets<\/a>) that can be dragged into the VS editor.<\/p>\n

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This feature is extremely <\/strong><\/em>useful for code demos where you don\u2019t want to type out each line of code.  <\/p>\n

Hope you find these tips useful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\"wespic\"<\/a><\/td>\nWeston Hutchins<\/strong> \u2013 Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team
Short Bio<\/strong>: I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2005 and have been working in Visual Studio ever since.  I\u2019m currently a PM on the VS Shell IDE team and work on the core IDE UI and services as well as the Extension Manager and http:\/\/visualstudiogallery.com<\/a> integration. Prior to my current duties, I was the SKU manager for the Visual Studio Express products.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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