Home/ Questions/Q 849605
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-15T07:07:48+00:00

I have it enabled in Visual Studio 2008, but I’d really like to enable

  • 0

I have it enabled in Visual Studio 2008, but I’d really like to enable this feature in SQL Server Management Studio 2005 Express. Does anyone know if its possible? Maybe in a later version?

EDIT: Sorry, I meant specifically in the text/query editor.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    In case you still need to know how to do this.

    Edit the Registry Key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER:

    Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\xx\Tools\Shell\Text Editor\Visible Whitespace

    Where xx is the version you have (90 is 2005, 100 is 2008)

    And set it to 1 to show. Or for SQL Server 2012 and up client tools it is also in HKCU:

    Software\Microsoft\Microsoft\SQL Server Management Studio\v\Text Editor\Visible Whitespace

    where v in SQL Server 2012 is 11.0 and in SQL Server 2014 is 12.0.

    • 0