View line numbers in XML documents with Visual Studio

Question

_{Thursday, January 8, 2009 2:17 PM | 1 vote}

Hi everybody!

Does anyone know if there is a way to view the line numbers in a XML document in the same way you can in any other kind of document.
I want to have the line numbers visible on the left side inside a XML document, the same as it is in, for an example, an asp or txt document.

I have line numbers turned on in my tool-options-general settings, but the line numbers are still not visible in the XML document. Of course I can go to a line number by Ctrl G and also see wich line number I standing on, but I would like to see all the line numbers on the whole page.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance for any help.  

All replies (2)

_{Monday, January 12, 2009 2:36 AM ✅Answered | 2 votes}

Hi Pelter,

I have Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite and Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition on my PC. I could view the line numbers in a XML document by using the step:
Tool - Options - Text Editor - XML - General - Click "Line Numbers"

However, you could not view the line numbers in a XML document in any express edition.

Hope that helps.

Thanks

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_{Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:11 PM}

Great! Thank you! I've been looking for that for a long time.

:-D