Enable the display of line numbers in Visual Studio

Question

Why doesn\'t Visual Studio have any way of showing line numbers in a source file? Is there any way to enable it, or a plugin for it? I know that the number of lines of code

Answer 1

In Visual Studio 2013 & 2015 :

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages -> check Line Numbers

Answer 2

Line numbers are not on by default. To turn on line numbers just go to Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages -> General -> Display and check Line numbers:

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Answer 3

For MS Visual Studio 2015 type "Text" in Quick Launch (Ctrl+Q) of top right corner. 1) quicklaunch

2) In the list select Text Editor->All Languages->General select_allLanguages

3) Now check on "Line Numbers" and click OK to get the line numbers.

Finally we get the line number in text editor.