Turn off auto formatting in Visual Studio

Question

I'm a code purist, preferring my own style of code formatting as opposed to Visual Studio's default settings. I've turned off auto-formatting options in Tools/options. In most cases it works.

After using any of the built-in refactorings, Visual Studio clobbers my settings with its default settings. How do I keep VS from doing that?

Answer 1

You might have had Power Tool installed.

In this case you can turn it off from 'Tools > Options > Productivity Power Tools > PowerCommands > General'

Answer 2

You can tweak the settings of the code formatting. I always turn off all extra line breaks, and then it works fine for how I format the code.

If you tweak the settings as close as you can to your preference, that should leave you minimal work whenever you use refactoring.

Answer 3

I had this problem while writing VB in an aspx page.

The solution was to go to 'Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic > VB Specific' and turn 'Pretty Listing' OFF.

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Note - in Visual Studio 2015 this can be found at:

Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic > Advanced

Answer 4

Follow TOOLS->OPTIONS->Text Editor->CSS->Formatting Choose "Compact Rules" and uncheck "Hiearerchical indentation"

Answer 5

Disable pretty listing. It is the option that re-formats what you are doing. I had the same discomfort with it and after doing it, my code stays how i want and it doesn't go back to previous settings.

Answer 6

VS2015 settings that helped me prevent auto formatting:

(and Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic > Advanced, just like Tango91 suggested)