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T.K.
T.K.

Reputation: 2259

Visual Studio Key Strokes: Swapping lines

Is there a keystroke in visual studio similar to Eclipse's Alt + ↑/↓?

For example:

int x = 0; // Cursor is anywhere on this line.
int y = 1;

and Alt + Down were pressed, then:

int y = 1;
int x = 0; // Cursor is anywhere on this line.

Upvotes: 55

Views: 30209

Answers (5)

Alejandro24
Alejandro24

Reputation: 1

Alt + Up/Down arrow in Windows. Be aware that this shortcut is not listed in the official Visual Studio Code keyboard shorcut for Windows yet (https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-windows.pdf)

Upvotes: 0

Nikhil Wagh
Nikhil Wagh

Reputation: 1498

For Mac, It is: option + ↑ / ↓

Upvotes: 3

Diego
Diego

Reputation: 20194

VS 2013 and later:

Alt + ↑ (Edit.MoveSelectedLinesUp)

Alt + ↓ (Edit.MoveSelectedLinesDown)

VS 2012:

Shift+Alt+ T (Edit.LineTranspose)

but this only swaps between the current and the next line (move down only).

VS 2012 does not support macros but there is the Productivity Power Tools 2012 extension that adds (besides some other nice features) commands to move a line up or down with Alt + ↑ and Alt + ↓.

VS 2010 and earlier:

Line transpose works (Shift+Alt+ T) but still no move up.

You could write a macro for those commands, I think this question may help you: Visual Studio: hotkeys to move line up/down and move through recent changes

Upvotes: 103

Jack Tang
Jack Tang

Reputation: 486

As of Visual Studio 2013, you can simply use Alt + ↑ / ↓

Upvotes: 16

qJake
qJake

Reputation: 17139

As an alternative solution, you could write a Visual Studio Extension to do this for you. Extensions are written in your favorite .NET language.

Refer to the MSDN article on creating Visual Studio Extensions for more information.

Upvotes: 2

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