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What are the little coloured bits on my vertical scroll bar in Visual Studio 2010?

I have only recently paid any attention to the appearance of little green and blue rectangles on my vertical scroll bar in code editing windows in VS2010. Can anyone tell me what these are?

I'm running with the Productivity Power Tools extension and ReSharper 6.

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ProfK Avatar asked Aug 05 '11 08:08

ProfK


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I have not found a color legend for the bits, but here is what we have found so far;
Light Blue = Bookmarks
Blue = Error / Warning
Orange = Find Results
Red = Breakpoint
Light Purple = Other instances of the selected variable
Dark Blue = Current cursor location
Yellow = Not saved changes
Green = Saved Changes
Dark Green = Spelling error (in comment or string literal)

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Chris Woodruff Avatar answered Oct 02 '22 07:10

Chris Woodruff