Question

All,
In my VS2008 C# editor window I’m trying to get from this:

/******** CONSTANTS ********/
const int HOLD_AWAITING_PAYMENT = 1;
const int HOLD_INT_LENDER_APPROVAL = 2;
const int HOLD_MDIA = 3;

to this:

/******** CONSTANTS ********/
const int HOLD_AWAITING_PAYMENT      = 1;
const int HOLD_INT_LENDER_APPROVAL   = 2;
const int HOLD_MDIA                  = 3;

I seem to remember that there’s a hot key or plug-in or somethat that does this. Does anyone remember the formatting trick?

Answer 1

There is a macro called LineEmUp in VS 2008 that does exactly this.
Tools > Options > Keyboard > Show commands containing: LineEmUp

You can assign it to any key combination right there.

Upd: note that you have to call it multiple times if you need to format more than one “column” in your code block.