Guidelines, a hidden feature for the Visual Studio editor

Thursday, July 28, 2005

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Sara Ford tells us how to use a hidden feature of the Visual Studio editor: visual guidelines.
These guidelines are visible column indicators for the VS editor.

I tried it with Visual Studio 2003 and it works fine. Here is the value I use: RGB(255,200,200) 80
This helps you to keep your code lines within the 80-caracter wide limit.

4 Comments

It works with VS 2005 Beta 2 too.

I tried but honestly, after 10mn, I switch it off: not you?

richardC - Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:26:00 PM

If you find it annoying, try a subtle gray like RGB(243,243,243).

Dover - Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:49:00 PM

Exactly, the color of my line is very light, so it does not get in the way when not needed.

Fabrice - Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:18:00 PM

Try word-wrap. Its really nice after you get over the shock of change.

guest - Saturday, August 13, 2005 2:57:00 AM

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