The integrated development environment (IDE) provides many of the familiar print features available from your operating system, along with a few features specific to Visual Studio. For example, you can include line numbers or omit collapsed regions in print outs, as well as include the file name and page numbers.

Print line numbers

Procedure

When you are working in a group, it can be useful to have each developer using the exact same settings for certain areas of the integrated development environment (IDE), such as the editor. You can encourage this consistency by creating a .vssettings file for a subset of the available settings categories that all developers in your group can use. When applied, these team settings would not override any category not specified in the .vssettings file, allowing individual developers to keep customizations they have made to other areas of the IDE. For information about creating a .vssettings file, see How to: Share Settings Between Computers.

Visual Studio verifies that you are using the latest version of the group .vssettings file each time you start Visual Studio. Any changes to the .vssettings file are automatically applied.

To specify a .vssettings file for use across a group

You can export settings for the editor, projects, debugging, fonts and colors, and other IDE areas to a file that you can import and use on another computer, such as your second development computer or a coworker's computer.

Export settings to a file

There are various ways to move through text or code in the Code Editor using the mouse and navigation keys:

• Use the arrow keys to move one character at a time, or the arrow keys in combination with the CTRL key to move one word at a time. Arrow keys move one line at a time also.

• Click a location with the mouse.

• Use the scroll bars or scroll wheel on the mouse to move through the text.

• Use the HOME, END, PAGEUP, and PAGEDOWN keys.

• Use CTRL+PAGE UP and CTRL+PAGE DOWN to move the insertion point to the top or bottom of the window, respectively.

• Use CTRL+UP ARROW and CTRL+DOWN ARROW to scroll the view without moving the insertion point.

• Use the Navigate Backward button to move the insertion point to previous locations in the active document, and the Navigate Forward button to return to more recent locations.

Operations such as Incremental Search, Goto Line, Goto Definition, Beginning of Document, End of Document, Paste, and Insert File can move the insertion point a significant distance within the active document. The Navigate Backward and Navigate Forward buttons retain the last 20 locations of the insertion point.