Horizontal scroll with mouse wheel at Visual Studio

Question

I have a new mouse that has the ability to scroll right and left using its scroll wheel. While this feature works on web pages, Photoshop and etc., it wouldn't do anything when I use it in the Visual Studio when looking at code that is longer (horizontally) than the window.

Is there a way to make it work?

Visual Studio is 2010 Express; the mouse is Logitech MX1100.

Answer 1

EDIT as ShiftScroll seems to have been abandoned, I created a small extension that adds this capability to Visual Studio 2017, 2019 and 2022.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=drewnoakes.SideScroller

https://github.com/drewnoakes/vs-side-scroller

It enables scrolling in the text editor and several other panels such as the output window. Hopefully it helps someone out.

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For VS2015 the ShiftScroll extension does this perfectly.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=NGPearce.ShiftScroll

It scrolls left/right at a very comfortable speed while you hold the shift key.

This would be a good built-in feature of VS IMHO.

Answer 2

Try out my solution with AutoHotKey:

https://superuser.com/a/1144201/240650

; Shift + Wheel for horizontal scrolling
+WheelUp::
    ; Scroll to the left
    MouseGetPos,,,id, fcontrol,1
    Loop 8 ; <-- Increase for faster scrolling
        SendMessage, 0x114, 0, 0, %fcontrol%, ahk_id %id% ; 0x114 is WM_HSCROLL and the 0 after it is SB_LINERIGHT.
return
+WheelDown::
    ;Scroll to the right
    MouseGetPos,,,id, fcontrol,1
    Loop 8 ; <-- Increase for faster scrolling
        SendMessage, 0x114, 1, 0, %fcontrol%, ahk_id %id% ;  0x114 is WM_HSCROLL and the 1 after it is SB_LINELEFT.
return