I ran across a really cool little feature of Visual Studio 2010 the other day:
The ability to select a rectangular block in a VS text editor as been around for quite a while. If you alt+drag you can select by blocks rather than individual lines:
VS 2010 adds a neat little twist to this feature: multi line insertion points. So if I select this:
and type s-t-r-i-n-g, this is the result:
you can also alt-drag an empty box to create a multi-line insertion point:
Cool…
-McP
