As I’ve mentioned before (here, here, and here, at least), I’m very specific as to how much stuff I want to see on my screen as I’m working with code. Visual Studio can be very cluttered depending on how we set it up; so much so that sometimes I feel like just open my cs files in Notepad!
One of the things I think get in my way is the feature CodeLens in VS. While it does provide good information and access to useful things, I hate it being on my face all the time! I rather it only show me the goodies when I need it.
Gladly, I found information on this link that shows how I can create a shortcut to toggle CodeLens on and off (I’ve also found out about the Visual Commander extension, which I hadn’t seen before).
One thing in that post that wasn’t clear is the name of the command I need to bind the shortcut to. I thought it’d be the name of the command I created in Visual Commander, but that wasn’t the case. Editing the command in Visual Commander, I noticed Command01 right before the name I gave to the command:
And that’s what I needed to look for in the Keyboard dialog in VS:
I’ve bound the command to the Shift+Alt+CL shortcut (for CodeLens).
Now, if I toggle the feature On, I see all of the extra stuff it shows me:
Otherwise, I get to focus only on the code (which is what I want 98% of the time!):
The less stuff there is mingled in the code, the easier it is for me to read and understand it.
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#1 by vmandic on August 3, 2017 - 5:13 am
Thank you very much, vs on large projects smokes out with CL toggled on, this is a thrill to toggle it fast like this.
#2 by claudiolassala on August 31, 2017 - 1:25 pm
Performance’s definitely another good point. Glad the post was helpful.