Is there any way, trick or extension for Visual Studio 2015 that tells me how many characters are there in the selection I made , including spaces or null characters?
Note: I want to tell the selection of Visual Studio itself, from its own text editor, I am not doing a project that has selections.
I believe an answer in SO does more or less what you want. It would look something like this:
using System;
using EnvDTE;
using EnvDTE80; //não sei se precisa de todos eles
using EnvDTE90;
using EnvDTE90a;
using EnvDTE100;
using System.Diagnostics;
public class CountNonWhiteSpaceCharacters {
void Count() {
//coloca onde quiser, pode ser no status, abrir outro tipo de controle, etc.
MsgBox("Count " + DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection().Text.Length.ToString());
}
}
You need to register to this extension. There are documentation that can help if you've never created an extension for Visual Studio.