Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Setting Editor Options, Bookmarks window

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Figure 2-4 The Bookmarks window

One of the entries in Table 2-1, CTRL-W, B opens the Bookmarks window shown in Figure 2-4, allowing you to manage bookmarks throughout your application.

The bookmark has a toolbar, which is the same toolbar that appears in VS when the editor window is active. The actions on the toolbar include the items from Table 2-1, plus the ability to move between folders.

Within the Bookmark list, you can check to make a bookmark active or inactive. When the bookmark is inactive, previous and next navigation will not stop at the bookmark. You can change the name of the bookmark by clicking the name twice. The File Location and Line Number tell you where the bookmark is located.

Setting Editor Options

The editor is very configurable, and there are more options available than many people realize. You can view available options by selecting Tools Options to show the Options window in Figure 2-5. As you can see from the figure, selecting Environment Fonts And Colors allows you to change the appearance of VS. Regarding our current discussion of the editor, this is where you can customize the coloration of code elements that appear in the editor.

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If you want to share your custom editor settings, you can use the Import and Export Settings Wizard that you learned about in Chapter 1. There is also an Import And Export Settings branch right below Fonts And Colors in the Options window.

Most editor customizations are in a language-specific branch of the Options window. Figure 2-6 shows the options available for C# programmers.