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Roberto
Roberto

Reputation: 11953

What's the equivalent for eclipse's ALT+UP/DOWN (move line) in Visual Studio?

In Eclipse, selecting a line and pressing Alt + ↑/↓ will move the line up and down, a quick way to avoid copy&paste. Is there an equivalent in Visual Studio?

Upvotes: 128

Views: 75946

Answers (7)

Phan-Anh
Phan-Anh

Reputation: 71

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For Visual Studio 2013: Tools -> Options -> Keyboard then select Edit.MoveSelectedLinesDown, click "Press shortcut keys" input and press Alt + Down. You also have to select the scope of the shortcut to be within "Text Editor".

Upvotes: 5

Umut Sun
Umut Sun

Reputation: 460

For me in Visual Studio 2019 it comes default closed.

For open it:

Tools -> Options -> Keyboard then select Edit.MoveSelectedLinesUp, click "Press shortcut keys" input and press Alt + Up (or whatever you want for it). And the other one is Edit.MoveSelectedLinesDown, click "Press shortcut keys" input and press Alt + Down (or whatever you want for it).

Upvotes: 36

Kevin Aenmey
Kevin Aenmey

Reputation: 13429

In Visual Studio 2013 and later, this functionality is built in. ALT + UP/DOWN will move a line up or down.

If you need this functionality in VS2012 (works with VS2010 too), take a look at the MoveLine Visual Studio Extension or the Productivity Power Tools suite.

Upvotes: 158

Andreas Bergström
Andreas Bergström

Reputation: 14650

In Visual Studio 2013 and later, you can move lines up and down using Alt + ↑ / Alt + ↓. Unfortunately this will not adjust the indentation if you move between blocks, as of today only ReSharper (and all other IDE's by Jetbrains including Rider) can help you with that.

To move entire blocks of code around you can move the cursor to its head and press Ctrl + m twice fast to collapse it, and then use the command above to move it around.

Here is a neat reference to all default keyboard shortcuts in different versions of Visual Studio.

Upvotes: 4

Drealmer
Drealmer

Reputation: 5696

This is now working out of the box with Visual Studio 2013, same way as in Eclipse.

Upvotes: 5

eFloh
eFloh

Reputation: 2158

With the VSCommands extension, you have exactly that keyboard shortcut. And, by the way, a Stack OVerflow notification toolbar :)

Upvotes: 1

Omer Raviv
Omer Raviv

Reputation: 11827

ReSharper's Ctrl + Shift + Alt + ↑/↓/←/→ is even more powerful - when on the beginning of the line, it will move the entire line, but can also be used to move entire methods, change the order of parameters, etc.

Upvotes: 93

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