Display an adornment with a typing speed meter in the Text Editor
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Technologies: Visual Studio 2015 SDK
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Topics: Visual Studio Shell, VSX, Editor, Adornment
Description
This extension modifies the text editor to display a typing speed meter. The sample uses an adornment to display the meter onscreen, and utilizes IVsTextViewCreationListener to track user keyboard input and update the meter.
The binaries for this sample can also be installed via the extension manager.
Requirements
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Clone the repo (How to):
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/VSSDK-Extensibility-Samples.git
Run the sample
- To run the sample, hit F5 or choose the Debug > Start Debugging menu command. A new instance of Visual Studio will launch under the experimental hive.
- Once loaded, open any file in the Visual Studio Text Editor.
- The typing speed meter can be seen in the top right corner of the screen.
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