Indentation in Visual Studio is controlled with the use of the tab key, which can be used to insert tab characters or spaces into the code or to indent or unindent selected lines. The type of indentation used for a language can have varied effects. Visual Studio 2012 and newer, C/C. Specify additional characters that accept entries in the options dialog of Visual Studio. Add a space to the default list to make Visual Assist behave as it does in older IDEs.

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The culture wars continue. The country is divided with no end in sight. Tabs or spaces? There's even an insane (IMHO) assertion that the spaces people make more money.

I'm going with Gina Trapani on this one. I choose working code.

@ftrain I choose the 3rd option: working code

— Gina Trapani ️‍ (@ginatrapani) December 27, 2015

Teams can fight but the problem of formatting code across teams is solved by EditorConfig. I'm surprised more people don't know about it and use it, so this blog post is my small way of getting the word out. TELL THE PEOPLE.

Take a project and make a new .editorconfig file and put this in it. I'll use a dotnet new console example hello world app. Autotune efx vst mac torrent.

I've set mine in this example to just *.cs, but you could also say [*.{cs,js}] or just [*] if you like, as well as have multiple sections.

You'll check this file in WITH your project so that everyone on the team shares the team's values.

Here in Notepad2 we can see someone has used spaces for whitespace, like a savage. Whitespace appears as pale dots in this editor.

I'll open this project in Visual Studio 2017 which supports the EditorConfig file natively. Notice the warning at the bottom where VS lets me know that this project has conventions that are different than my own.

VS Format Document commands will use tabs rather than spaces for this project. Here is the same doc reformatted in VS:

At this point I'm comforted that the spaces have been defeated and that cooler heads have prevailed - at least for this project.

.NET Extensions to EditorConfig

Indentation - Why Do XSLT Editors Insert Tab Or Space ..

Even better, if your editor supports it, you can include 'EditorConfig Extensions' for specific files or languages. This way your team can keep things consistent across projects. If you're familiar with FxCop and StyleCop, this is like those.

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There's a ton of great .NET EditorConfig options you can set to ensure the team uses consistent Language Conventions, Naming Conventions, and Formatting Rules.

Language Conventions are rules pertaining to the C# or Visual Basic language, for example, var/explicit type, use expression-bodied member.
Formatting Rules are rules regarding the layout and structure of your code in order to make it easier to read, for example, Allman braces, spaces in control blocks.
Naming Conventions are rules respecting the way objects are named, for example, async methods must end in 'Async'.

You can also set the importance of these rules with things like 'suggestion,' or 'warning,' or even 'error.'

As an example, I'll set that my team wants predefined types for locals:

Virtual dj pro 5.0 free download. dotnet_style_predefined_type_for_locals_parameters_members = true:error

Visual Studio here puts up a lightbulb and the suggested fix because my team would rather I use 'string' than the full 'System.String.

The excellent editorconfig for .NET docs have a LOT of great options you can use or ignore. Here's just a FEW (controversial) examples:

Visual Studio Code - Convert Spaces To Tabs

csharp_new_line_before_open_brace - Do we put open braces at the end of a line, or on their own new line?
csharp_new_line_before_members_in_object_initializers - Do we allow A = 3, B = 4, for insist on a new line for each?
csharp_indent_case_contents - Do we freakishly line up all our switch/case statements, or do we indent each case like the creator intended?
You can even decide on how you Want To Case Things And Oddly Do Sentence Case: pascal_case, camel_case, first_word_upper, all_upper, all_lower

Visual Studio 2017 Tabs Spaces

If you're using Visual Studios 2010, 2012, 2013, or 2015, fear not. There's at least a basic EditorConfig free extension for you that enforces the basic rules. There is also an extension for Visual Studio Code to support EditorConfig files that takes just seconds to install although I don't see a C# one for now, just one for whitespace.

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Tabs To Spaces Visual Studio Code

Out of the blue, when coding Python in Visual Studio Code, you might run into the following error.

“inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation”

This happens, because somewhere in your code, indentation is different than in the rest of your code. Generally, Python doesn’t care what kind of indentation your editor uses, whether it be some spaces, or tabs. But it expects you to be consistent.

Generally, VS Code is pretty good at guessing the kind of indentation is used in the file you’re working in. If you press control + , and scroll down to this setting, you can choose if you want VS Code to detect the kind of indentation in a particular file.

Furthermore, you can get to that same preference and also choose what kind of indentation you want by clicking on the ‘Tab Size: X’ in the bottom right corner of your IDE.

Finally, if you run into the error, and you want to get rid of the spaces (or vice versa), you can paste your code in Notepad++, and do a search and replace by pressing control + H. In the following screenshot I search for 4 spaces and I replace with a tab by entering t.

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