Mouse wheel button scrolling

Question

Love VS 2010. In the editor, are you going to add mouse wheel button navigation? I know that the mouse wheel will scroll the text up and down, but when I press the mouse wheel down and hold it, the cursor doesn't change to the navigation cursor. I love being able to quickly scroll "Southeast" or "North by Northwest" when I know where the code should be located.

Thanks,

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Quantum Mechanic

Answer 1

Hi Quantum Mechanic,

It's great to hear you like VS 2010!  As you likely know, we rearchitected the editor for this release, and unfortunately this meant that we didn't have time to implement everything that was available in previous versions.  This 'navigation scrolling' you describe (I'm not sure what its official name is) is cut from VS 2010, but there are still many ways to scroll the Editor (mouse wheel, scrollbars, arrow keys, page up/page down, etc.), so hopefully you'll find an alternative scrolling method that works for you.

For cases where you know where the code is and want to get to it quickly, the new-for-VS 2010 zoom feature may help.  To try it, hold Control and scroll the mouse wheel to zoom out, find the code you want, and Ctrl+mouse wheel to scroll back in.

We'll also keep this issue on our list of good-to-have features and revisit it for a future version of Visual Studio.  Thanks for trying VS 2010 Beta2 and posting your feedback!

Brittany Behrens
Program Manager, VS Platform
http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio

Answer 2

Brittany,

Thanks for filling me in on that new Ctrl+Mouse Wheel scrolling. I love it. Old habits die hard, so I hope the VS team will eventually get around to add the mouse wheel button navigation back. For now, though, I'm good to go with Ctrl+Mouse Wheel.

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Quantum Mechanic