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Visual Studio 2008 and the Yellow Arrow

Tuesday, 20 November 2007 20:32 by jf26028

First off, Visual Studio 2008, so far, seems to be a vast improvement over an already best-of-breed IDE out there, so, hats off to the vs team.

I have found one interesting thing, though.  For some reason, when I was exploring the familiar options dialog, I unchecked Drag and drop text editing.  I don't use that feature, so why have it enabled? 

DragDropTextEditing

So, I continued on with my work, and got to a situation where I needed to re-step through a for loop.  I tried to drag the yellow execution error up to the beginning of the for loop, and it wouldn't budge.  I tried at various points within the application, and not matter what, it just wouldn't budge.  I was really upset because I tend to use this feature all the time, and couldn't imagine why it wasn't working.  I re-traced my steps, and re-enabled the Drag and drop text editing option, and low and behold, the little yellow arrow was draggable again.

Moral of the story.  If you can't drag that little yellow arrow, then make sure Drag and drop text editing is enabled.

Jesse Foster | jf26028

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