Indentation shortcuts in Visual Studio

Question

I\'m new to Visual Studio 2010 and C#. How can I indent the selected text to left/right by using shortcuts?

Answer 1

If you would like nicely auto-formatted code. Try CTRL + A + K + F. While holding down CTRL hit a, then k, then f.

Answer 2

Just hit Tab to push it over or on the menu bar Edit --> Advanced --> Format Selection and that will auto indent, the keyboard shortcut is also shown in the menu.

Answer 3

Visual studio’s smart indenting does automatically indenting, but we can select a block or all the code for indentation.

1. Select all the code: Ctrl+a

2. Use either of the two ways to indentation the code:

   • Shift+Tab,

   • Ctrl+k+f.

Answer 4

Ctrl-K, Ctrl-D

Will just prettify the entire document. Saves a lot of messing about, compared to delphi.

Make sure to remove all indents by first selecting everything with Ctrl+A then press Shift+Tab repeatedly until everything is aligned to the left. After you do that Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D will work the way you want them to.

You could also do the same but only to a selection of code by highlighting the block of code you want to realign, aligning it to the left side (Shift+Tab) and then after making sure you've selected the code you want to realign press Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F or just right click the highlighted code and select "Format Selection".

Answer 5

If the move-left and move-right shortcuts do not appear on your screen, click at the rightmost position of your toolbar at the top. You should get "Add or Remove Buttons." Add the buttons "decrease line indent" and "increase line indent"

Answer 6

Tab to tab right, shift-tab to tab left.