{"id":12869,"date":"2023-03-18T18:07:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T18:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/?p=12869"},"modified":"2023-03-18T18:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T18:07:52","slug":"unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Unleash Your Coding Skills with This Must-Know Hack for Visual Studio: Displaying Line Numbers!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_49 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" 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type=\"checkbox\" id=\"item-6766b70319888\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers\/#Exploring_Line_Numbers_in_Visual_Studio\" title=\"Exploring Line Numbers in Visual Studio\">Exploring Line Numbers in Visual Studio<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2'><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers\/#Displaying_Line_Numbers_in_Visual_Studio_2019\" title=\"Displaying Line Numbers in Visual Studio 2019\">Displaying Line Numbers in Visual Studio 2019<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3'><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers\/#Step_1_Open_Visual_Studio_2019\" title=\"Step 1: Open Visual Studio 2019\">Step 1: Open Visual Studio 2019<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers\/#Step_2_Open_a_New_or_Existing_Project\" title=\"Step 2: Open a New or Existing Project\">Step 2: Open a New or Existing Project<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers\/#Step_3_Show_Separator_Line_and_Line_Numbers\" title=\"Step 3: Show Separator Line and Line Numbers\">Step 3: Show Separator Line and Line Numbers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers\/#Step_4_Verify_that_the_Line_Numbers_are_Displayed\" title=\"Step 4: Verify that the Line Numbers are Displayed\">Step 4: Verify that the Line Numbers are Displayed<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers\/#Displaying_Line_Numbers_in_Visual_Studio_Code\" title=\"Displaying Line Numbers in Visual Studio Code\">Displaying Line Numbers in Visual Studio Code<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3'><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers\/#Step_1_Open_Visual_Studio_Code\" title=\"Step 1: Open Visual Studio Code\">Step 1: Open Visual Studio Code<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers\/#Step_2_Open_a_New_or_Existing_Project-2\" title=\"Step 2: Open a New or Existing Project\">Step 2: Open a New or Existing Project<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers\/#Step_3_Display_Line_Numbers\" title=\"Step 3: Display Line Numbers\">Step 3: Display Line Numbers<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/unleash-your-coding-skills-with-this-must-know-hack-for-visual-studio-displaying-line-numbers\/#Conclusion\" title=\"Conclusion\">Conclusion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Exploring_Line_Numbers_in_Visual_Studio\"><\/span>Exploring Line Numbers in Visual Studio<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Visual Studio is a highly advanced integrated development environment (IDE) that is widely used by developers from all over the world to create diverse applications, including mobile, desktop, and web applications. It is an excellent tool that comes with many features and tools to make coding easier and faster. One of the helpful features offered by Visual Studio is the ability to display line numbers in the editor. Line numbers provide a quick reference while coding because they allow developers to quickly navigate to a specific line in their code.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Displaying_Line_Numbers_in_Visual_Studio_2019\"><\/span>Displaying Line Numbers in Visual Studio 2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Step_1_Open_Visual_Studio_2019\"><\/span>Step 1: Open Visual Studio 2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Firstly, launch Visual Studio 2019 on your PC, and a welcome page appears on the IDE.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Step_2_Open_a_New_or_Existing_Project\"><\/span>Step 2: Open a New or Existing Project<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Create a new project or open an existing one to get started with coding.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Step_3_Show_Separator_Line_and_Line_Numbers\"><\/span>Step 3: Show Separator Line and Line Numbers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Now navigate to Tools from the menu bar and select Options from the drop-down menu, which will open the Options window. Once inside this window, expand the Text Editor dropdown and select the language you are coding in, such as C#. Then, expand the General option, and check the boxes for \u201cShow line numbers\u201d and \u201cShow documents tabs in separate lines\u201d as shown in the image below. Finally, hit the &#8220;okay&#8221; button to save the changes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"img\/window.png\" alt=\"Options window\"><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Step_4_Verify_that_the_Line_Numbers_are_Displayed\"><\/span>Step 4: Verify that the Line Numbers are Displayed<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The line numbers should now appear on the left side of the editor, allowing you to navigate and edit code more efficiently.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Displaying_Line_Numbers_in_Visual_Studio_Code\"><\/span>Displaying Line Numbers in Visual Studio Code<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Step_1_Open_Visual_Studio_Code\"><\/span>Step 1: Open Visual Studio Code<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Another highly advanced version of Visual Studio, known as Visual Studio Code, also offers various features and tools to make coding faster and easier. Launch Visual Studio Code on your PC to begin.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Step_2_Open_a_New_or_Existing_Project-2\"><\/span>Step 2: Open a New or Existing Project<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Create a new project or open an existing one to start coding.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Step_3_Display_Line_Numbers\"><\/span>Step 3: Display Line Numbers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In Visual Studio Code, navigate to the View option from the menu bar and select Toggle Line Numbers from the dropdown menu. Alternatively, you can use the shortcut key \u201cCtrl+Shift+P\u201d on a Windows machine or \u201cCommand+Shift+P\u201d on a Mac to quickly find and execute the Toggle Line Numbers command. The line numbers will now appear on the left side of the editor, allowing you to navigate and edit your code more efficiently.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conclusion\"><\/span>Conclusion<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Undoubtedly, Visual Studio is an essential tool for coding that comes with a wide range of features to improve productivity and speed up the coding process. Displaying line numbers is amongst such features that help developers navigate and edit their code more efficiently. In this article, we\u2019ve explained how to turn on line numbers in Visual Studio, both in Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code. We hope this tutorial has been helpful to you and you can use this feature to increase your coding productivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring Line Numbers in Visual Studio Visual Studio is a highly advanced integrated development environment (IDE) that is widely used by developers from all over&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3297],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Visual-Studio-ULTIMATE-GUIDE-How-To-step-by-step-Tutorial.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13818,"href":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions\/13818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauricemuteti.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}