Is there any way to automatically wrap comments at the 80-column boundary as you type them? ..or failing that, any way to display a faint line at the coulmn 80 boundary to make wrapping them manually a little easier?
Several other IDEs I use have one or other of those functions and it makes writing comments that wrap in sensible places much easier/quicker.
[Edit] If (like me) you’re using Visual C++ Express, you need to change the VisualStudio part of the key into VCExpress – had me confused for a while there!
Take a look at the question here: Hidden Features of Visual Studio (2005-2010)?
It shows how to do that:
‘Under ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Text Editor’ Create a String called ‘Guides’ with the value ‘RGB(255,0,0) 79′ to have a red line at column 80 in the text editor.’