Command to collapse all sections of code

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In Visual Studio is there a command to collapse expand all the sections of code in a file

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To collapse all use    Ctrl    M and Ctrl A  All shortcuts for VS 2012 2013 2015 available at http   visualstudioshortcuts com 2013

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Visual Studio can help you find the answer to your question in a couple of different ways   Type Ctrl   Q to access Quick Launch  and then enter  collap   Quick Launch will display something like  dagger   Menus  1      Edit - gt  Outlining - gt  Collapse to Definitions  Ctrl M  Ctrl O  NuGet Packages  1      Search Online for NuGet Packages matching  collap    From there  enter  outlining  to find other menu entries related to outlining   Menus  5      Edit - gt  Outlining - gt  Toggle Outlining Expansion  Ctrl M  Ctrl M      Edit - gt  Outlining - gt  Toggle All Outlining  Ctrl M  Ctrl L      Edit - gt  Outlining - gt  Stop Outlining  Ctrl M  Ctrl P      Edit - gt  Outlining - gt  Stop Hiding Current  Ctrl M  Ctrl U      Edit - gt  Outlining - gt  Collapse to Definitions  Ctrl M  Ctrl O  Options  4      Text Editor - gt  Basic - gt  VB Specific  Change outline mode  Automatic inser              However  note that Quick Launch will show you only those commands that are available as Visual Studio menu entries  To find other keyboard-related commands related to collapsing sections of code  in the Visual Studio menu bar click   Tools - gt  Options - gt  Environment - gt  Keyboard   This will display the keyboard section in the Options dialog box  In the  Show commands containing  text box  enter  edit collap   Visual Studio will display a list that is something like   Edit CollapseAllincurrentblock     Edit CollapseAllOutlining           Ctrl M  Ctrl A  Text Editor  Edit CollapseBlockcurrentblock Edit CollapseCurrentRegion          Ctrl M  Ctrl S  Text Editor  Edit CollapseTag                    Ctrl M  Ctrl T  Text Editor  Edit CollapsetoDefinitions          Ctrl M  Ctrl O  Text Editor    You ll need to click each command to see its associated keyboard shortcut      dagger  My examples taken from Visual Studio 2013

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None of these worked for me  What I found was  in the editor  search the Keyboard Shortcuts file for editor foldRecursively  That will give you the latest binding  In my case it was CMD   K  CMD

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Below are all what you want    Collapse   Expand current Method   CTRL   M   M   Collapse   Expand current selection   CTRL   M   H   Collapse all   CTRL   M   O  CTRL   M   A   Expand all   CTRL   M   X  CTRL   M   L

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Fold Unfold the current code block     Ctrl M  Ctrl M Unfold all     Ctrl M  Ctrl L Stop outlining     Ctrl M  Ctrl P Fold all     Ctrl M  Ctrl O

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In Visual Studio 2013   CTL   M   A collapses all  CTL   M   L expands all

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In Visual Studio 2019    Go to Tools   Options   Keyboard   Search for Edit ToggleAllOutlining  Use the shortcut listed there  or assign it the shortcut of choice

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Collapse All - Ctrl    M    O  Expand All - Ctrl    M    L

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CTL   M   A collapses all  works for me  whereas   CTL   M   O  does not

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CTL   M   L expands all  CTL   M   O collapses all  In the MSDN article  Default Keyboard Shortcuts in Visual Studio   see the section  Text Editor  if you re looking for other shortcuts - these 2 are just a few of the many that are available

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Press  CTL   A  Then  CTL   M   M  To compress all  including child nodes  in XML-files

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In case of ugrading to Visual Studio 2010  2012  2013 or 2015  there s a Visual Studio extension to show current registered keyboard shortcuts  IntelliCommand

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If you want to collapse expand an area within a class method  instead of collapsing the entire class method   you may create custom regions as follow     region AnyNameforCollapsableRegion     Code to collapse    endregion    Reference

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In Visual Studio 2017  It seems that this behavior is turned off by default  It can be enabled under Tools   Options   Text Editors   C    Advanced   Outlining    Collapse  regions when collapsing to definitions

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If you mean shortcut then  CTRL   M   M  This one will collapse the region your cursor is at whether its a method  namespace or whatever for collapsing code blocks  regions and methods  The first will collapse only the block method or region your cursor is at while the second will collapse the entire region you are at   http   www dev102 com 2008 05 06 11-more-visual-studio-shortcuts-you-should-know

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if you want to collapse and expand particular loop  if else then install following plugins for visual studio    VS2010 VS2012 VS2013 VS2015

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CTRL   M   O will collapse all  CTRL   M   L will expand all   in VS 2013 - Toggle All outlining  CTRL   M   P will expand all and disable outlining  CTRL   M   M will collapse expand the current section  CTRL   M   A will collapse all even in Html files  These controls are also in the context menu under Outlining  Right click in editor - gt  Outlining to find these controls   After disabling outlining  use same steps to enable outlining   For outlining options  Go to Tools - gt  Options - gt  Text Editor - gt  C  - gt  Advanced - gt  Outlining for outlining options

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Ctrl M expands region   Ctrl L collapses region

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The following key combinations are used to do things   CTRL   M   M  rightarrow  Collapse   Expand current preset area  e g  Method    CTRL   M   H  rightarrow  Collapse   Hide  Expand  current selection  CTRL   M   O  rightarrow  Collapse all Collapse declaration bodies    CTRL   M   A  rightarrow  Collapse all   CTRL   M   X   rightarrow  Expand all   CTRL   M   L  rightarrow   Toggle all  There some options in the context menu under Outlining

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Are you refering to the toggle outlining   You can do  Control   M then Control   L to toggle all outlining

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