In visual studio you can select a block of text by holding down Alt when when selecting text with the mouse. This is very useful for selecting a column of data or text as opposed to the entire line.
In Visual Studio 2003-2005 this operation could be performed by holding Alt + Shift in conjunction with the arrow keys but the keyboard option no longer works in VS2008.
Can anyone tell me the editor command to assign to a keyboard shortcut?
Is this keyboard shortcut just moved to something else in VS 2008?
Right after I submitted this I was looking through the keyboard shortcuts and found the commands Adrian mentioned. By looking at how these are mapped and playing around a bit more I figured out how it is setup in the default profile for Team Suite.
To start a block select you press Alt + Shift + Home or Alt + Shift + End. This highlights to the end of the line or the start of the line depending on what you pressed.
Thereafter Shift + arrow and Ctrl + Shift + arrow, can be used to expand the region as desired.