Visual Studio 2010 Tips – Cut-Copy operations on unselected lines

 

Visual studio editor contains all tid-bits for programmers. The editing capabilities are amazing as always; we know. In this post, I am talking about the behavior of unselected lines.

Knowingly or unknowingly you might have experienced, we can copy an entire line by just pressing Ctrl+C without selecting it.

Ctrl + C Copy the current line (including new line)
Ctrl + X Cut the current line (including new line)
Ctrl + L Delete the current line and copy to clipboard
Ctrl + Shift + L Delete the current line only

You can also control the Cut – Copy behavior at options page (Tools->Options->Text Editor->All Language->General). Note that this option can be controlled independently for each language type. It’s all your convenience.

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