Enable the display of line numbers in Visual Studio

Visual Studio has line numbering:

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages -> check the "Line numbers" checkbox.

As of Visual Studio 2015, you can find the option under:

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

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Or simply go to tools -> options and type on the search bar: "Numbers".

Tools -> Options -> Show All Settings -> Text Editor -> All Languages -> Line Numbers

In Visual Studio 2013 & 2015 :

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It's not enabled by default but you can enable it by going to:

Click Tools Options Text Editor (expand) All Languages Line Numbers (Checkbox) Click Ok

settings

In VS 2010:

Tools > Settings > Expert Settings

Then:

Tools > Options > Show all settings > Text editor > C# > General > Check Line Numbers (checkbox)

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Visual studio 2015 enterprice

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

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Are you talking about seeing the line numbers or knowing the total number of lines in a project? Here is the 1st one

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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For me, line numbers wouldn't appear in the editor until I added the option under both the "all languages" pane, and the language I was working under (C# etc)... screen capture showing editor options

Type 'line numbers' into the Quick Launch textbox (top right VS 2015), and it'll take you right where you need to be (tick Line Numbers checkbox).

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.

In Visual Studio 2010 Express, there is an option called "Show all Settings". Located at "Tools > Options", window.

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If this option is not checked, the line number option will not be available. Make sure this option is checked like shown below. This will make lot of additional settings visible in the tree view to the left.

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Now this will make the option "Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# > General > Line Editor" available. Check the "Line Number" option to make line numbers visible on Visual Studio 2010 Express.

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You should edit "settings.json". In that add, "editor.lineNumbers":"on", . You can check comments for various options you have.

In Visual Studio Code - 2017, you can also directly go to a given line number. There are following three ways to do that.

Directly use keyboard shortcut - Ctrl + G. Under menu Go, use Go to Line - Go > Go to Line Search for Go to Line in Command Pallete (Cmd + Shift + P).