Redesigning Sandcastle: Requesting Feedback!

Yes, the width of panels will be adjustable like it is now. The console height will also be adjustable under the viewer.

  • A frequent use from my side is that I often find myself using browser search via Ctrl+F into the existing sandcastle demos when looking for code snippets… Is the gallery view searchable?

Yes, the gallery will be searchable, both on the titles and the code in them. It should also still be filterable by tag/category. We’re still exploring this a little bit but we will strive to make sure the builtin examples are easy to find.

  • Also, great to see sharing more prominent, I use both deep-link sharing as well as url-param code payload

We’ve been looking at ways to improve the sharing experience. It’s still a bit of an open question what we may do to improve it. The current share links and the named links for gallery demos will still work. Any ideas on alternatives you’d want are welcome. Feel free to add them to this thread which is more targeted at functionality.

  • Finally, regarding the current code editor, have you made the switch to a code-server vscode editor so most devs keep their shortcuts in mind?

Yes, we have already swapped over to Monaco which is the editor VSCode uses. I can personally say having used it a bunch while developing that it’s so soo much nicer than the old editor. Please look forward to it :grin:

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