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Reputation:

Is there a format code shortcut for Visual Studio?

In Eclipse there is a shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+F, that re-indents code and fixes comments and blank lines. Is there an equivalent for Visual Studio 2010?

Upvotes: 541

Answers (14)

skdishansachin

Reputation: 694

In Visual Studio 2022, it's Ctrl + K followed by Ctrl + D.

Upvotes: 4

MaduKan

Reputation: 660

Check your own key combination under Edit > Advanced > Format Selection. You can see, in my case it is CTRL+K, CTRL+F. So that means your highlighted selection of the code will be formatted when you press CTRL+K, still hold down CTRL, then press F. Easy right? ;-)

Upvotes: 0

Kush Kant Dayal Pune

Reputation: 469

Most easy, try once

Select all codes using :- Ctrl + A
Press :- Ctrl + K + D

Upvotes: 9

Jason Williams

Reputation: 57892

Visual Studio with C# key bindings

To answer the specific question, in C# you are likely to be using the C# keyboard mapping scheme, which will use these hotkeys by default:

Ctrl+E, Ctrl+D to format the entire document.

Ctrl+E, Ctrl+F to format the selection.

You can change these in menu Tools → Options → Environment → Keyboard (either by selecting a different "keyboard mapping scheme", or binding individual keys to the commands "Edit.FormatDocument" and "Edit.FormatSelection").

If you have not chosen to use the C# keyboard mapping scheme, then you may find the key shortcuts are different. For example, if you are not using the C# bindings, the keys are likely to be:

Ctrl + K + D (Entire document)

Ctrl + K + F (Selection only)

To find out which key bindings apply in your copy of Visual Studio, look in menu Edit → Advanced menu - the keys are displayed to the right of the menu items, so it's easy to discover what they are on your system.

_{(Please do not edit this answer to change the key bindings above to what your system has!)}

Upvotes: 898

Abraham

Reputation: 15630

Simply

For Visual Studio Code Use ALt + Shift + F

for Visual Studio IDE Press Ctrl + K followed by Ctrl + D

It will beautify/format your entire file.

Upvotes: 11

Shoaib Khalil

Reputation: 2402

Change these shortcuts in Visual Studio

Tools → Options → Environment → Keyboard

and then change the command

"Edit.FormatDocument" or "Edit.FormatSelection"

assign the same shortcut alt + shift +f as in visual studio code in order to not remember another one and confuse between each other.

Upvotes: 2

Tijo Tom

Reputation: 517

Format the entire document:

Ctrl + K + D

Upvotes: 14

Amandeep Singh

Reputation: 370

To align the text in the proper format -

Ctrl + K + D for front end pages like .aspx or .cshtml
Ctrl + K + F for a .cs page

But observe to press all buttons in sequence...

Upvotes: 12

Mahendra Mali

Reputation: 51

Select all text in the document and press Ctrl + E + D.

Upvotes: 5

isxaker

Reputation: 9446

ReSharper - Ctrl + Alt + F

Visual Studio 2010 - Ctrl + K, Ctrl + D

Upvotes: 19

Numan

Reputation: 3948

Try Ctrl + K + D (don't lift the Ctrl key in between).

Upvotes: 49

Chris Schmich

Reputation: 29456

Yes, you can use the two-chord hotkey (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F if you're using the General profile) to format your selection.

Other formatting options are under menu Edit → Advanced, and like all Visual Studio commands, you can set your own hotkey via menu Tools → Options → Environment → Keyboard (the format selection command is called Edit.FormatSelection).

Formatting doesn't do anything with blank lines, but it will indent your code according to some rules that are usually slightly off from what you probably want.

Upvotes: 28