Oct 10, 2016 Admin Visual Studio Team (Product Team, Microsoft Visual Studio) commented November 22, 2016 12:52 PM Flag as inappropriate Flag as inappropriate @Daniel, @Thomas: we support.editorconfig's ability to drop a.editorconfig file at ANY location in your file hierarchy and have the settings flow down to all applicable files at that level.
One of the features included in Visual Studio 2017's Release Candidate (RC) was support for the standard. Adhering to this standard allows developers to define a coding style once and then easily reuse that style across different editors. Another big advantage is that the styles defined in an EditorConfig file can be stored in a source control system and avoid being lost in a particular editor’s dialog boxes or configuration.
VS2017 will support the use of the EditorConfig functionality with several languages, including C#, Visual Basic, C, JavaScript, F# and TypeScript. As Microsoft’s Kasey Uhlenhuth, one of the benefits of EditorConfig is that broad standards can be defined solution-wide, with additional EditorConfig files uses to define project or directory specific standards.
Adding these files allows for the definition of both code formatting rules and code style rules. VS2017RC currently supports these five formatting rules:. indentstyle. indentsize. tabwidth. endofline. charset Two more popular rules, trimtrailingwhitespace and insertfinalnewline, are not yet supported.
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Code Style rules can also be defined, and depending on the severity (none / suggestion / warning / error) a build break when this mechanism is fully implemented (currently in VS2017RC a build will proceed). According to Microsoft EditorConfig support in Visual Studio can and will be updated after VS2017 RTM and their goal is provide full compliance with EditorConfig features through the course of these updates. Once a developer has defined the various Code Formatting and Code Style rules that they want for an existing source tree, it will be necessary to close and reopen any open files or when an EditorConfig file changes. Uhlenhuth provides a couple of keyboard shortcuts to quickly apply new rules:. Updating a single open file in the editor: Format Document CTRL-K, D.
Apply updates to all files in the entire project/solution: Quick Actions menu CTRL + (control plus) Note that when an EditorConfig file is present, its rules will override those used defined in Visual Studio’s Tools Options menu. If you would like to have some editor conveniences when editing EditorConfig files within VS0217, Mads Kristensen has produced the open source EditorConfig Language Service. Currently using Code Formatting and Style requires VS2017RC, but a NuGet package is being developed to provide this functionality to allow for integration with build systems. Updated January 10, 2017 to incorporate information on language support and the availability of future updates.
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Visual Studio IntelliCode Infers C# Coding Conventions Written by Kay Ewbank Wednesday, 18 July 2018 The Visual Studio IntelliCode Extension has been updated to add 'coding convention inference' for C#. In other words, the extension can look at your existing coding conventions and create a configuration file that best matches the way your code looks.
Once generated, the configuration file will help you maintain consistency in your team’s codebase. IntelliCode works out what to put in the.editorconfig file by scanning code files in your selected projects to create the best matching set of conventions. The way this works is that you select the solution, project, or folder level folder where you want the conventions to apply, and choose to add an EditorConfig file. Once created, the EditorConfig files apply enforcement hierarchically to all files below it in the filesystem.
If you have subfolders or projects that have different conventions, you can create a new EditorConfig for those subfolders or projects to override the conventions from the higher level. Once in place, any code that doesn't conform to the style used by the majority of the code is highlighted in the error list in the Messages severity. This can be altered so they show as warnings or errors. Formatting violations do not show up in the error list. Visual Studio IntelliCode was announced as an experimental extension for Visual Studio 2017 earlier this year. The extension is designed to improve developer productivity with features like contextual IntelliSense, inference and enforcement for code styles, and focused reviews for your pull requests.
The current version of IntelliCode is based on an Azure machine learning model that offers better code completion and automatic code formatting to match your usual style. It also looks at your code to suggest NET related APIs that are likely to be the most relevant for you given the line of code you’re writing. More Information Related Articles To be informed about new articles on I Programmer, sign up for our,subscribe to the and follow us on,.