Question

Is there a way to lock or freeze a part of code against formatting in Visual Studio?

I want to protect the following code :

Method("This is a long text", 12 , true  );
Method("Hi",                  558, true  );
Method("Short text",          1  , false );

to be formatted as:

Method("This is a long text", 12, true);
Method("Hi", 558, true);
Method("Short text", 1, false);

but still be able to format the rest of the document.

Answer 1

You can turn it off completely (Options->TextEditor->Basic->General) uncheck off Pretty Listing. And under Options->Text Editor->C#->Formatting turning off options there.

But, sadly, there isn’t any built-in option to selectively prevent formatting a portion of code.