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Did you know... You can drag and drop code onto the Toolbox General tab? - #191

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Today’s tip is especially helpful if you are going to write code in a presentation.  Now you don’t have to code in front of everyone, but rather have it all typed up on the side, ready to go!

You’ve probably noticed the Toolbox General tab showing this information by default.

General Toolbox Tab

Probably one of the best kept "secrets" is that you can actually drag and drop code onto the toolbox.  Just highlight some text and then Click+Drag that text into the General tab.  you’ll see the following.

ToolboxGeneralTab2

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  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2008
    That's one useful (and well hidden) trick! No more copy-paste from notepad for me! Go Sarah Go! :)

  • Anonymous
    April 10, 2008
    Great, thats new thing for me.

  • Anonymous
    April 10, 2008
    Great, thats new thing for me.

  • Anonymous
    April 10, 2008
    Wow awesome - I didn't know you could do that!

  • Anonymous
    April 10, 2008
    Woooowwww... Awesome!!!! That one really amaze me!!

  • Anonymous
    April 10, 2008
    But wait...there's more!  If you pay attention to this comment, you'll also get the ability to give the entry a useful name, all for no additional cost! Simply right-click the item and select "Rename Item"  Your old code clips can go from ugly to useful in seconds!   Try this tip now and get an additional bonus...copy and paste work too!  That's right...you get not only the originally mentioned click & drag method but also the copy & paste method, absolutely free with your VS!  Who wouldn't want that kind of redundancy in a development tool? Alas, no operators are standing by...unless Sara wants to post her extension...   Thanks for bringing all these useful ideas together for us to share...Sara you rock!

  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2008
    Sara, Love the hat and thanks for the tip. Mike M

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2008
    That's awesome. Thank you Sara and Jimbo!

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2008
    That'll save some time. I've already started copying my favourite functions and subs. Thanks

  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2008
    It also works with copy and paste. Select code, Ctrl+C, switch to Toolbox/General, Ctrl+V.

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2008
    What a brilliant idea. I wish I'd known this before. It'll save loads of work!

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2008
    Simple and very handy trick. Thanks Sarah Guru "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler"

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2008
    Also works in 2005. Dead handy, thanks

  • Anonymous
    May 21, 2008
    Arrrrghhh,  So much fun stuff to learn; so little time!

  • Anonymous
    May 23, 2008
    Amazing tip! Dropping knowledge as usual! I never ever liked the idea of keeping code snippets in macros bound to some cryptic keyboard shortcut, and I can't use native snippets system because VS allows it only for C# and VB (and I have to work on PHP and Ruby stuff as well).

  • Anonymous
    May 25, 2008
    this feature already in vs2005

  • Anonymous
    May 28, 2008
    I love it!  The tip saves me a lot of time. Thanks a lot!

  • Anonymous
    May 30, 2008
    This feature already in first version of dreamveawer..

  • Anonymous
    May 31, 2008
    Thank you very much for the tip. And the hat is really lovely :)

  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2008
    Hey friends! It's not new. This functionality inherited from VS2003...! Just Try it!

  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2008
    今日のヒントは、プレゼンテーションでコードを記述する予定がある場合は特に役立ちます。 皆の前でコードを記述する必要がなくなり、全部作成済みの状態で用意しておくことができます。ではやってみましょう。 既定では、[Toolbox]

  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2008
    今日のヒントは、プレゼンテーションでコードを記述する予定がある場合は特に役立ちます。 皆の前でコードを記述する必要がなくなり、全部作成済みの状態で用意しておくことができます。ではやってみましょう。 既定では、[Toolbox]

  • Anonymous
    January 03, 2009
    本篇包括tip191-tip200http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-20.html#191、把代...

  • Anonymous
    April 11, 2009
    Drag and drop code to and from ToolBox Sara Ford blogged about this a couple of days ago and I thought

  • Anonymous
    April 11, 2009
    Drag and drop code to and from toolbox (part II) After posting up about this feature of Visual Studio

  • Anonymous
    April 15, 2009
    Sara Ford blogged about this a couple of days ago and I thought it was a really cool feature of Visual

  • Anonymous
    April 15, 2009
    After posting up about this feature of Visual Studio I got to messing around with it a bit. ( Sara Ford's

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2009
    Tip #0 Know your Keybindings! General Development Settings Searching Tips Tip #1 How to behold the power