Working with the Code Editor

As a developer, you’ll spend most of your Visual Studio time in the code editor, along with the designers. Knowing how to get the best out of the code editor is very important. In this chapter you’ll see just a few code editor features; you’ll learn about others—ones that are related to specific topics—in later chapters. The following sections focus on features that are available in any project you are working on and that will help you be more productive. Some of these features were introduced in Visual Studio 2013, and others are new in Visual Studio 2015.

Zooming the Code

You can zoom the code editor in and out by simply pressing the Ctrl key and moving the mouse wheel up and down. This is a useful feature particularly ...

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