Comments on: Duplicate line command for Visual Studio

By: Gary Oak

Gary Oak — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:00:14 +0000

This didn’t work for me in VS 2008 Pro.

By: JeeZ

JeeZ — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:21:20 +0000

Hi,
I’m modified the macro so that if multiple line are selected, they are duplicated. If not, only the current line is dupplicated (as before).

Note: The String.Replace function is used to prevent the “Automatic insertion of end constructs” option from being triggered, which would add uneeded additionnal end constructs.

[CODE]
Imports System
Imports EnvDTE
Imports EnvDTE80
Imports System.Diagnostics

Public Module DuplicateSelectionOrCurrentLineModule
Sub DuplicateLine()
Dim line As String
line = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text
If (line.Length = 0) Then
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine(0)
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine(True)
line = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text
End If
line.Replace(ControlChars.NewLine, ControlChars.NewLine & “‘”)
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine()
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine(0)
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = line
End Sub
End Module
[/CODE]

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:55:18 +0000

Thanks Christophe! I’ve been missing this from Eclipse… nice to have it back!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:18:38 +0000

Thanks, I’m moving from Linux dev and all the text editors I have ever used have had ctrl+d for duplicate line. I find it hard to believe this functionality was missing from VS2005! Thanks for the macro

By: slapout

slapout — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:30:21 +0000

Thanks, I’ve been looking for something like this.

By: Shaoken

Shaoken — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:39:21 +0000

Hi Christophe,

If you like this kind of stuff, you definitively must take a look to ReSharper. As you said, “once you get used to it, you can’t live without it”.

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/