Visual Studio 2015 Auto Formatting Issue

Question

User612096356 posted

I am using Visual Studio 2015 Professional.  In my current settings, under Text Editor|C#|Formatting|Spacing, I have selected the radio button "Remove spaces before and after binary operators."  

My problem is that when I declare and create a new object on the same line, the above rule is ignored (regarding the = in the assignment) upon auto formatting.  For example, I get the following:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

when what I want is:

StringBuilder sb=new StringBuilder();

The only way to get it to preserve my spacing (or lack thereof) around the = in the above declaration statement is to check the Ignore spaces in declaration statements checkbox.  This however does not give me a good "snap-to" of my desired formatting when dealing with code written by any number of the knuckle draggers, who enjoy typing, that I must deal with on a regular basis.

Is this WAD, a bug or is my profile corrupt beyond the ability of /resetuserdata (already tried) to correct?

Answer 1

User3690988 posted

I don't think that StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); is considered a binary operator.  If you see the example when you select the Insert or Remove space before and after binary operators, the example shows this when removing:

void Method()
{
    int result = 1+2*3;
}

And this when adding:

void Method()
{
    int result = 1 + 2 * 3;
}

Answer 2

User612096356 posted

I would follow with you on that, except when you separate the assignment from the declaration, auto-format will force this:

StringBuilder sb;
sb=new StringBuilder();

EDIT:  And to clarify, if I select Insert spaces before and after binary operators I get this on auto-format:

StringBuilder sb;
sb = new StringBuilder();

Answer 3

User3690988 posted

Now, my head is ready to explode.  According to MSDN Statements. A Declaration Statement is:   int c;

If I select Ignore spaces in declaration statements, I would think that if I type:

int               c;

it would remove extra spaces, but it seems to do the opposite:

            int        c;     // ignore spaces set
            int d;   // ignore spaces not set

I'm baffled.

Answer 4

User612096356 posted

I'm baffled.

 I would expect checking "Ignore spaces in declaration statements" to leave spacing the way it is, whatever that is, when auto-formatting.

Answer 5

User3690988 posted

 I would expect checking "Ignore spaces in declaration statements" to leave spacing the way it is, whatever that is, when auto-formatting.

Thanks,  it's not my way of thinking but, I'll buy that.  I can put the Prozac away.

Answer 6

User-166373564 posted

Hi,

 I would expect checking "Ignore spaces in declaration statements" to leave spacing the way it is, whatever that is, when auto-formatting.

Go to Tools -> Options, you could try the option below:

Regards,

Angie