How can I make Visual Studio wrap lines at 80 char

Question

Is there any way to make Visual Studio word-wrap at 80 characters? I'm using VS2008.

This post is loosely related.

Answer 1

Adds vertical column guides to the Visual Studio text editor. This version is for Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013 or Visual Studio 2015.

See the plugin.

Answer 2

I don't think you can make VS wrap at 80 columns (I'd find that terribly annoying) but you can insert a visual guideline at 80 columns so you know when is a good time to insert a newline.

Details on inserting a guideline at 80 characters for 3 different versions of visual studio.

Answer 3

I stumbled upon this question when was actually searching for an answer to this one (how to add a visual line/guideline at char limit). So I would like to leave a ref to it here for anyone like myself.

Answer 4

If the problem is simply that you want to know when you pass 80 characters for a single line, which is a common coding guideline limit, you can use a different approach: Editor Guidelines.

Answer 5

Tools >> Options >> Text Editor >> All Languages >> General >> Select Word Wrap.

I dont know if you can select a specific number of columns?

Answer 6

You can also use

Ctrl+E, Ctrl+W

keyboard shortcut to toggle wrap lines on and off.