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Use the enhanced editor scrollbar

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Use the enhanced editor scrollbar

- Visual Studio has an enhanced vertical scroll bar that provides at a glance information about the state of the current document. You can turn on the scroll bar and see sharp by going into this section in scroll bars and enabling show vertical scroll bar. I've turned off the default, which is to show annotations over the vertical scroll bar. This is the extra information that can be added to the scroll bar. Currently, it's off so you see that I just have a normal scroll bar down the right side of the screen. When I turn this on and click okay, keep your eye on the scroll bar and see what happens. I see that several things happened. The scroll bar got wider, and there's now a blue line on the scroll bar, and two gray dots. What do these represent? The blue bar represents my current caret position. If I move my cursor down with the down arrow on my keyboard, you'll see that the blue line moves. This gives you a relative idea of where your cursor is within the document. What about these…

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