Question

I’m new to using Visual Studio 2008 IDE. Switching from vim. Is there a way to setup Visual Studio to automatically indent C comments /* */ such as:

/*<ENTER>

I want this:

/*
 * <CURSOR>

Edit:
Seems like Visual Studio 2008 has this behavior for C# comments but not for C/C++ under:
Text Editor > C# > Advanced > Generate XML documentation comments for ///

Answer 1

You can use the following macro in your EnvironmentEvents project item. It should work for all tab styles (None,Block or Smart).

    Public Sub aftekeypress(ByVal key As String, ByVal sel As TextSelection, ByVal completion As Boolean) _
            Handles TextDocumentKeyPressEvents.AfterKeyPress

        If (Not completion And key = vbCr) Then
            Dim textDocument As TextDocument = DTE.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument")
            Dim startPoint As EditPoint = TextDocument.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint()
            startPoint.MoveToLineAndOffset(sel.ActivePoint.Line - 1, 1)
            Dim lines = startPoint.GetLines(sel.ActivePoint.Line - 1, sel.ActivePoint.Line)
            If lines.LastIndexOf("*") = 1 And lines.LastIndexOf("/") <= 0 Then
                If lines.LastIndexOf("/") = 0 Or _
                   DTE.Properties("TextEditor", "C/C++").Item("IndentStyle").Value = 0 Then
                    sel.Insert(" ")
                End If
                sel.Insert("* ")
            End If
        End If
    End Sub