Selecting Code Vertically in Visual Studio

Here's a cool feature that you probably not familiar with - You can make a selection box of text while pressing Alt key while dragging the mouse, within Visual Studio.

This is what happens when selecting text in the standard way:

selecting text in the standard way

Here are some good use cases for this feature:

Vertical selection of code:

vertical selection of code

Zero length selection:

zero length selection

 Multiple line typing:

multiple line typing

You can use this feature to a variety of purposes - adding, deleting, editing a vertical selection of code, also copying and pasting, and generally be more pragmatic :)