I’ve been using Visual C# 2008 Express on my laptop (the full thing is outside of my budget at the moment), but it meets my needs quite well. However, while trying to diagnose a problem with one of my tests in NUnit (which I think is fabulous) I went back to Visual C# Express with line number in hand ready to find the problem. Of course, the line numbers aren’t shown by default in Visual Studio.
Fortunately I had dealt with the problem before (in the full version of Visual Studio) and knew that it was a “per language” setting, which I always thought was kind of odd, but maybe most people don’t like seeing the line numbers for all their files (why?). Anyway, I went looking, but I couldn’t find it. Frustrated I jumped on my favourite search engine and quickly found the solution to my problem. Under the list of option categories there is a little checkbox labelled “Show all settings”.
Checking this box gave me a bundle of extra options, including the ability to display line numbers (Text Editor » C#, then the “Line numbers” checkbox under Display). But I must ask, why is this some sort of advanced hidden option??
So in future if I’m expecting an option to be show I will look for the magic “Show all settings” checkbox!
Thanks for the solution. It took me a while to figure out where the “Show all settings” checkbox was. For some reason I never scrutinized that part of the dialog box. The checkbox is located in the lower left, parallel with the OK button.
Greg
Yeah, leave it to M$ to hide one of the most useful features. Most editors have it enabled at default, or at least make it very easy to turn on. I just don’t know what they’re thinking…
Thanks! (Dang hidden settings…)
Same problem, and yours was the first hit on Google. Thanks.
God knows why someone would disable this by default because of the typed language. Beats me.
Thanks for the help!
Some hours with MS Help and don’t find solution.
One search in google and find your post with the solution.
Thanks for your post