Box Selection in Visual Studio 2010

Every day I am discovering something new with Visual Studio 2010 and In this post I am again going to explain you new interesting feature of Visual Studio 2010. We all required to modify the code in bulk some time and there is a new features for Visual Studio 2010 which enables to made changes in multiple line at same time. Let’s take a simple example like following.

using System;

namespace Parallel
{
  class Program
  {
         private int a=10;
         private int b=10;
         private int c=10;

         static void Main(string[] args)
         {

         }  
  }
}

In above code I have three private variable a,b and c and now I want to make them protected. There is two way either I do manually one by one or I can do it with box selection and modify them together. It very easy to use this feature Press ALT+ SHIFT and draw box with help of mouse on the code which you need to modify like following.





Now I want to make it protected so I started writing protected and it will modify all the line at same time like following.



And now my code is like following.

using System;

namespace Parallel
{
  class Program
  {
         protected int a=10;
         protected int b=10;
         protected int c=10;

         static void Main(string[] args)
         {

         }  
  }
}

That's it. Hope you like it… Stay tuned for more…Till then Happy programming.