I have often wanted to be able to select blocks of text in Visual Studio like I used to willy nilly in vim, but I didn’t think it was possible… Until Yesterday!
All you have to do is hold down alt and use the cursor or select with your mouse to select arbitrary blocks of text. Best day ever.
Visual Studio isn’t terribly discoverable.
I just discovered this recently myself – scratch one more of the few remaining reasons I have to keep UltraEdit open all the time.