Question

When I try to initialize an object using the Object Initializer, ReSharper always inserts a lot of whitespace.

public class Bar
{
    public void Adam()
    {
        var foo = new Foo
                      {
                          First = "yes",
                          Second                              = 
                      };
    }
}

When I replace the ; character after the intializer, my code will then be formatted as below:

public class Bar
{
    public void Adam()
    {
        var foo = new Foo
                      {
                          First = "yes",
                          Second = "no"
                      };
    }
}

Follow these steps to reproduce the problem (Thank you Piers Myers):

• Place your cursor at the indented position after the opening brace for example (on an empty line you can place your cursor either at the very beginning of the line or at the indentation level Resharper/VS thinks you should be using)
• Press CTRL+Space, CTRL+ALT+Space or SHIFT+ALT+Space. It will insert spaces before your cursor to pad it out but it will also add the same amount of spaces after your cursor which is incorrect.

Does anyone know what is causing the initially generated whitespace? Perhaps which settings I might have configured wrong?

Answer 1

This problem has been confirmed on these installations:

• Resharper 5.1 VS2008 (By Piers Myers)
• Resharper 6.1 VS2008 (By Me)

However the probleem seems to be gone on these installations:

• Resharper 6.1 VS2010 (By Piers Myers)
• Resharper 7.0EAP VS012 (By Me)

Therefore it appears to be a bug of ReSharper in combination with the VS2008 IDE.