SelectionPopup is a free Visual Studio 2010 extension that displays an unobtrusive popup in the immediate vicinity of a text selection, offering the user quick access to text operations like the classic cut-copy-paste-delete, as well as some more specific tasks like indent, unindent, case transformation and spaces to tabs conversions. Also, a quick information area displays the current selection size in characters.

SelectionPopup Details

• When some text is selected in the code editor, 'SelectionPopup' displays a semi-transparent toolbar near the selection:

  

• As the mouse pointer enters the toolbar area, this one becomes fully opaque:

  

• A combo-box lists some additional operations besides the actions that can be chosen by using the toolbar buttons:

  

What's New In version 1.4

• The extension now works with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.

What's New In version 1.3

• Fixed a bug in the web update system.

What's New In version 1.2

• If not used, the popup now disappears after a few seconds.

• Fixed a bug that caused the popup to appear on scroll, even if text selection was done by keyboard.

• The extension now checks for updates once a day upon startup instead of doing it on operation selection.

What's New In version 1.1

• The popup only appears when the selection is made by using the mouse, or if the mouse pointer is moved after selecting text with the keyboard.

• No more icon fuzziness at maximum opacity.

• The 'More' combo-box was redesigned.

By using the YellowMarker extension, you can easily highlight (with a yellow background, like when using a highlighter on a piece of paper) any piece of code. This can be extremely useful when navigating code files - for example, you can highlight the class definition lines, and the method definition lines that you work on, and thus it will be extremely easy to return to those areas after browsing the code file looking for something else.

YellowMarker Details

• YellowMarker uses a light yellow gradient to highlight any code area you desire. You can see below how this marking looks like when applied to two class definition lines:

  

• When you want to highlight a code piece in the editor, all you have to do is select that code area, press 'Ctrl+Shift' on the keyboard and then perform a horizontal mouse gesture. Removing an existing highlight is equally easy, i.e. you select any area of the highlighted piece of code, press 'Ctrl+Shift' on the keyboard and, again, perform a horizontal mouse gesture. The following short demo makes this process extremely clear:

What's New In version 1.1

• Changed the keyboard modifier from Ctrl to Ctrl+Shift in order to avoid conflicts.