Keyboard: CTRL + E, CTRL + W
Menu: Edit -> Advanced -> Word Wrap; Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages -> General
Command: Edit.ToggleWordWrap
Versions: 2008,2010
Published: 2/27/2010
Code: vstipEdit0022
When you turn on Word Wrap it will automatically make sure your text is always in the visible space. So if you have a lot of visible space then it doesn't need to wrap:
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But if you have less space it will wrap automatically:
And, naturally, if you have almost no space it will still make sure all the text is in the visible space:
The indicators that show the lines being wrapped can be turned on or off using the 'Show visual glyphs for word wrap' checkbox.
That is the coolness and power of the legendary Word Wrap. 🙂
Microsoft plans to launch a preview of Visual Studio for Mac this week at its Connect() conference, according to an MSDN Magazine article which Microsoft published and then pulled.
The article described Visual Studio for Mac as 'a macOS counterpart of the Windows version of Visual Studio,' with a look and feel 'inspired by Visual Studio, yet designed to look and feel like a native citizen of macOS.'
As Tim Anderson of ITWriting noted, this isn't actually a port of the Windows version of Visual Studio to Mac; instead, it's a rebranding of Xamarin's technology. Microsoft bought mobile-tool vendor Xamarin in February 2016.
The MSDN article describes Visual Studio for Mac as an evolution of the Xamarin Studio integrated development environment (IDE).
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Visual Studio for Mac will include IntelliSense and refactoring via the Roslyn Compiler platform. It will use MSBuild and the same debugger engines for Xamarin and .NET Core apps, as well as the same designers for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android.
The preview will be available for download from VisualStudio.com, the article says.
A second MSDN Magazine article, which also appears to have been published erroneously, focused on another Connect() announcement, the availability of the Release Candidate for the next version of Visual Studio for Windows. Codenamed VS'15, that release will be christened Visual Studio 2017, according to that article.
Microsoft's Connect() 2016 developer conference kicks off on Wednesday, November 16, and runs through November 18. Microsoft will be live streaming the event.
(Thanks to the readers who sent me the links to the two articles.)