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Not original to me - I was moderating a blog: Scroll bars Re-engineered[^] and had a "didn't know that" moment.
You can change the VS scroll bars to give you a code overview by right clicking the bar and selecting "Map view" in the "Scroll bar options" - with a tooltip "readable" view. Handy!
Once the blogs approved I'll upvote it, but I thought you might miss the blog if it scrolls off the front page too quickly.
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Great! Thanks for sharing this!
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Cool. I had seen an extension to do this once upon a time, but didn't know it had been made part of VS.
Cool beans!
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And it's been there since at least VS2013 ... 
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I knew about this...badly wanted to like it...but it's one of those things I wanna turn off after about 20 minutes...
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dandy72 wrote: but it's one of those things I wanna turn off after about 20 minutes...
Exactly.
Marc
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Yeah it's ugly and distracting ... it'd be better if it also collapsed respective sections when you collapse methods/regions - so you could better see the sections you are working on.
Another half baked good idea.
signature upgrading ... please wait.
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I like it just the way it is - set to narrow map keeps it discreet and you can see the errors you need to address and where you are working. One of the better innovations.
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RAH
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And use bookmarks to show areas you are interested in. They show up in the map.
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It's one of this 1000-Shortcuts-in-Excel-you-need-to-know thing. There are so many features in VS that I will never use because I don't remember/know them. Do I miss them? Not really!
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When writing code, I agree, this feature is probably of little use and may be distracting.
When debugging? I can see turning it on and off as needed.
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Do the experiment yourself. I have. In the end, I just left it off. If it works for you - then hey, great.
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Me too. I tried it just now and disliked it. Good decision from VS Team for making it turned off by default. It's way too distracting. I would rather use the good old Ctrl+F for navigation.
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IntelliJ has something similar. you put your mouse pointer in the scrollbar area and it will give you a popup preview of that location.
it's useful for looking at the compiler errors and warnings (which are highlighted in the scroll area, too).
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I find it useful in Intellij and haven't even looked for ways to turn it off  Good that VS has the option (I've stopped using it since VS2013)
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Cool! I will try it for some time and see if it does not get boring.
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I use this all the time. The code view is nice, but my favorite feature of the code-view version of the scroll bar is you can single-click on the scroll bar and immediately be taken to that point in the code, instead of having to (hold down the mouse button | scroll up/down with the mouse wheel | use the page up/down keys on the keyboard) and scroll until you get where you want to go.
Another way I use this is that you can see the entire file at a glance. So searching for any commented code so you can rip it out, or seeing how many // TODO: comments you have, any compile warnings, etc is really simple.
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That was the temp yesterday afternoon in good old fahrenheit. 45.5 celsius/centigrade for you millennials. A tad hotter than I'm used to. 
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Where in US is that? Death valley? It's almost as hot at Indian summer.
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Not that valley, the one north of LA.
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Is that all? I drink my coffee hotter than that! 
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It was almost that warm when I woke up this morning; who knows how high it will go? It's a rare summer day here when the high is below 120 ° F.
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Arizona near Phoenix I went there a couple of years ago in August. Never again. Makes 114 feel positively chilly - even breathing was hard it was so hot and stifling.
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Phoenix is a great place to go to cool off in the summer, but it's so much like Los Angeles in every other way there's really no attraction...
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