Is there any way to make Visual Studio word-wrap at 80 characters? I'm using VS2008.
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Unless someone can recommend a free tool to do this, you can achieve this with ReSharper:
ReSharper >> Options... >> Languages/C# >> Line Breaks and Wrapping
- Check "Wrap long lines"
- Set "Right Margin (columns)" to the required value (default is 120)
Hope that helps.
Tools >> Options >> Text Editor >> All Languages >> General >> Select Word Wrap.
I dont know if you can select a specific number of columns?
I don't think you can make VS wrap at 80 columns (I'd find that terribly annoying) but you can insert a visual guideline at 80 columns so you know when is a good time to insert a newline.
Details on inserting a guideline at 80 characters for 3 different versions of visual studio.
To do this with Visual Assist (another non-free tool):
VAssistX >> Visual Assist X Options >> Advanced >> Display
- Check "Display indicator after column" and set the number field to 80.
If the problem is simply that you want to know when you pass 80 characters for a single line, which is a common coding guideline limit, you can use a different approach: Editor Guidelines. This will add vertical column guides behind your code.
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