Question

In Visual Studio 2008’s Options > Text Editor > C# > Formatting, I have the following settings ticked.

• Automatically format completed statement on ;

• Automatically format completed block on }

This is really helpful for when I’m writing a method or a for/foreach/while/if statement.

ie if I write

void MyMethod(){} 

I want it to reformat it to the following when I type the last }

void MyMethod() { } 

However, when I write:

bool MyProperty { get; set; } 

I want it to stay that way instead of getting changed to:

bool MyProperty  {      get;      set;  } 

Is there anyway that I can get this to happen or am I dreaming? The only way I can think of is turning those two settings off….but that just results in the annoyance getting shifted to when I write methods and if statements etc.

Update: Just thought I’d mention that I use Resharper…so if there’s a way to accomplish it through there I would be interested in knowing that too.

Answer 1

Awesome! I managed to figure it out. Thanks to Anton I had a closer look at the settings available in Resharper and I was able to figure something out.

My solution involves a combination of settings in Resharper and VS2008.

In VS2008, I turn off Automatically format completed statement on ;

I then turn on the setting in Resharper for IntelliSense Completion Behavior to Automatically insert parentheses after completion.

This allows me to type:

bool MyProperty { 

To get:

bool MyProperty {} 

Which then allows me to add the get; and set; lines without them formatting…