Rockscroll or Metalscroll for Visual Studio 2010 (

Question

Has any one found a replacement for Rockscroll or Metalscroll for Visual Studio 2010?

I miss it so much that I looked into making one my self but only have word highlighting working and a place holder scroll bar and seems to be much harder than I thought it would be. I'm happy to share what I got if someone is interested in helping.

Answer 1

David Pugh released a version of his Structure Margin, which serves a similar purpose. His All Margins extension combines a bunch of the other smaller extensions in the same vein.

It's not exactly the same, but I find the structure margin to be an interesting way to visualize the entire code file.

Answer 2

The Productivity Power Tools extension for VS2010 just added an "Enhanced Scrollbar"!

To enable the minimap go to Tools->Options->Productivity Power Tools->Enhanced Scroll Bar and check "Full map mode". Optionally you can assign the background color and highlighted region.

Answer 3

For anyone looking for a replacement for just the Highlighting part of RockScroll, the free plugin "Highlight all occurrences of selected word" does exactly that.

Answer 4

The code is also available for the OverviewMargin - I haven't tried it at all, but it may be a good place to start from if you want to roll your own.

Answer 5

Just tried ProgressiveScroll and it looks and feels like the original MetalScroll; it also works in Visual Studio 2012!

Answer 6

A user named Kryo at the "Sins of solar empire" forum have made a pretty good imitation of MetalScrollbar for VS 2010, called MetalMargin. Available here. Just installed it, and it seems to work pretty well, although highlight on double click is not yet implemented.