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I noticed in a week-old post about Visual Studio 2005 enhancements that one thing being looked at is “rich formatting.” Now, that doesn't really say much, but I'd like to see a customizable code formatter built into the IDE. Personally, I don't like what VS does to my code by default - it's not bad, but I prefer a few minor changes. I'd also like to force things in certain places to keep them logically grouped together.

I know that some of this can be handled by FxCop, but as far as I know, FxCop doesn't reformat the code, it just identifies inconsistencies.

The biggest place where I get annoyed is HTML reformatting. I abso-friggin-lutely hate VS's HTML formatting. If advancements could be made to the code formatter that would make it flexible enough to specify templates for all languages, I would be quite a happy camper. I guess we'll see.

posted on Monday, June 07, 2004 6:44 AM

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# re: VS 2005 Code Formatting 8/11/2007 8:33 AM A.O
Please don't get me wrong but i have to deal with this xml/code reformatting 'feature' of VX2005 to long now...

The xml/code re-formatting engine of VS2005 is somewhat ugly and i don't know how to get rid of it or substitue it with the old formatting like VS2003 did it. :(

This lines written, I feel a bit better now^^

Any tips for this: Don't hesitate - send me an email!

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