Metalscroll makes the scrollbar in Visual Studio awesome!
Today i decided to look through tweets a favorited the last couple of month and one of the tweets I favorited was about a small add-on to Visual Studio called Metalscroll. Metalscroll basically make your scrollbar alot mor intersting. It’s kind of hard to describe but a picture says more then 1000 word so have a look at this. Click on it to get it in full size.
What you see to the right is Metalscroll. It’s kind of a thumbnail view of all the sourcecode in the file you currently have open. And that is maybe not that usefull since you can’t see anything. But there’s more. if you have any breakpoints in the file you see that as small red block in Metalscroll. Bookmarks turns up as small blue blocks. If you hold down the alt-key and double click a word you see all occurences of that word as small orange blocks in Metalscrool, just press ESC to remove the highlight for this word. Simply awesome!
You can also click with the middle mouse button in Metalscrol to get a zoomed in view of the code on that location. Well .. it’s a really neat little add-on that makes Visual Studio even more awesome then it is out of the box. Hopefully it will work with Visual Studio 2010 also!
