Capi's Corner » vs.net http://www.dont-panic.cc/capi Development, Network, Security, Ideas & Opinions Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:11:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 VisualStudio.NET: Text-Editor Guide at 80 http://www.dont-panic.cc/capi/2006/04/21/visualstudionet-text-editor-guide-at-80/ http://www.dont-panic.cc/capi/2006/04/21/visualstudionet-text-editor-guide-at-80/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:54:55 +0000 Martin Carpella http://www.dont-panic.cc/capi/archives/33 Guiding lines in VS.NET 2005It is still considered good style to keep code-lines within a certain bound (e.g. 80 characters). IDEs like Eclipse offer to display a red guiding line at the chosen offset to help developers keep within this bound.

By modifying the registry a similar guide can be enabled for Visual Studio 2003 / 2005. Add a string value Guides to the key (VS.NET 2005, VS 2003 has version 7.1)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Text Editor.

Set the value to

RGB(128,0,0) 80

To have multiple guides (like in the screenshot), add the additional columns space delimited, e.g.

RGB(128,0,0) 80 100

Ackn.: This information has been provided by Hannes Pavelka in Microsoft’s newsgroup microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp, Message-ID: <e1jag7$qk7$02$1@news.t-online.com> (Article in Google Groups):

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