Question

I am using Visual Studio 2010, but this applies to VS 2008 as well.

In my MVC views I prefer to write my coded elements as follows:

<% if (somecondition) { %>
    <p>something</p>
<% } else { %>
    <p>something else</p>
<% } %>

This just looks more readable to me than the following which is what VS auto corrects my code to look like:

<% if (somecondition) 
   {  %>
    <p>something</p>
<%}
  else
  {  %>
    <p>something else</p>
  <%} %>

I usually stop my work to format the code back into the fashion that I prefer, but am getting tired of this. I love the auto-correcting in VS, but want this to cease only in my views, and only for what I describe above. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Right click within your view then:

Pick Formatting and Validation

Expand: C# -> Formatting -> Newlines

Then uncheck ‘Place open brace on new line for control blocks’