{"id":403,"date":"2014-05-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2014\/05\/23\/announcing-update-to-productivity-power-tools-2013\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:27:06","slug":"announcing-update-to-productivity-power-tools-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/announcing-update-to-productivity-power-tools-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Update to Productivity Power Tools 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, we’re releasing an update to Productivity Power Tools 2013<\/a> on the Visual Studio Gallery. In this release, we fixed a number of customer-reported bugs and issues, and introduced a new feature called syntactic line compression.<\/p>\n

Syntactic line compression enables you to make better use of your screen’s vertical real-estate. It shrinks lines that contain neither letters nor numbers by 25% vertically, allowing more lines to be displayed in the editor. Other lines are not affected.<\/p>\n

Here’s an illustration of the same code before and after the feature is applied. You can see the extra lines you can get in the same space with no loss of content:<\/p>\n

\"Before<\/a><\/p>\n

As with all Productivity Power Tools features, if you don’t like it you can turn it on and off in Tools…Options…Editor…Productivity Power Tools <\/strong>– but do let us know if there are things that you’d like to see that would make it more useful to you:<\/p>\n

\"Tools<\/a><\/p>\n

For Syntactic Line Compression we’re also providing the ability to tune the way it works with a couple of extra settings:\"Tools<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see, these settings give you some control over the kind of lines which will be compressed.<\/p>\n

You can pick up the new release right now on the Visual Studio Gallery<\/a>. We hope you enjoy this new release, and look forward to hearing your feedback, both here on the blog and on the Visual Studio Gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"image\"<\/a><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong>: Mark Wilson-Thomas<\/strong>, Senior Program Manager, Visual Studio <\/p>\n

Mark Wilson-Thomas is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team, currently working on the Visual Studio Editor. He has worked on developer tools for the last 8 years, including tools for Office, SQL and XAML. Prior to moving to the US he was a consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK on large scale projects. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked for BP Oil plc as a Process Modelling Chemist, and for QA plc building web-based Learning Management Systems.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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