How can I make Visual Studio wrap lines at 80 characters?

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

This post is loosely related.

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Solution 1 - Visual Studio

Unless someone can recommend a free tool to do this, you can achieve this with ReSharper:

ReSharper >> Options... >> Languages/C# >> Line Breaks and Wrapping

  • Check "Wrap long lines"
  • Set "Right Margin (columns)" to the required value (default is 120)

Hope that helps.

Solution 2 - Visual Studio

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

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

Solution 3 - Visual Studio

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.

Solution 4 - Visual Studio

You can also use

Ctrl+E, Ctrl+W

keyboard shortcut to toggle wrap lines on and off.

Solution 5 - Visual Studio

To do this with Visual Assist (another non-free tool):

VAssistX >> Visual Assist X Options >> Advanced >> Display

  • Check "Display indicator after column" and set the number field to 80.

Solution 6 - Visual Studio

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.

Solution 7 - Visual Studio

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.

Solution 8 - Visual Studio

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. This will add vertical column guides behind your code.

Solution 9 - Visual Studio

See also this answer in order to switch the mode conveniently.

Citation:

> I use this feature often enough that I add a custom button to the command bar. > > Click on the Add or Remove -> Customize >
Click on the Commands tab >
Select Edit|Advanced from the list >
Find Toggle Word Wrap and drag it onto your bar

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