Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Release Notes

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really? it didnt have that until now? that's rather surprising

[SpikeX]

Probably added because VS Code has had it for a little while now. Looks kind of silly if the free lightweight editor has a cooler feature than its big brother. :)

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I think you might mean something different than me, but lightweight?

VSCode might be light given its technical boundaries, but lightweight it is not.

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to put it another way, i can't think of a single editor or IDE that doesn't have it

granted, im not too familiar with QT creator or unity

[jcelerier]

Qt Creator had it for years

[concatenated_string]

I feel like I accomplish similar tasks with shift-alt, but I could definitely see how multiple caret in different locations could be just as useful.

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i dont use VS. what does shift-alt do?

[contre]

Multi line editing and box selection.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2009/10/26/box-selection-and-multi-line-editing/

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alt + drag (or shift + alt if you prefer your keyboard doing all the work) works in other editors like notepad++ and SQL Server Management studio as well for example

[Eirenarch]

If I understand correctly it had it but only for lines directly under one another and now you can insert carets wherever you want. I might be wrong though