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Joe
Joe

Reputation: 6816

Maddening auto-format behavior with Visual Studio 2019 / Resharper that I cannot disable

This started happening for me in Visual Studio 2019 but does not happen in 2017. I cannot figure out how to stop it.

Something I do all the time is make use of Resharper's reformatting. Suppose I have little block of code like this:

Scan = scan;
Target = target;
IsDone = true;
ShouldAlign = false;

I want to align it up to look all nice and neat. So I select my block of code and I either use the menu or a keyboard shortcut to invoke Resharper's autoformat to line up the equals signs. Voila! Looks great, Here is the reformatted code, exactly as it appears, right after I've reformatted. Note the code is still selected:

Just reformatted

But then all I have to do is I click anywhere else in the whitespace of that document, and Boom! Everything gets undone

Right back where I started

It is as if VS2019 runs its own "Format Selection" command when I click away But I never did that. (but if I manually do, it has the same effect)

However if instead of just clicking away on the whitespace I, click the menu area of Visual Studio and then click the document whitespace, no problem. No reformat.

Just now I've just finished comparing Visual Studio 2017 and 2019 editing settings side-by-side next to each other. I've compared every single edit/formatting/spacing setting I can possibly find. Both Visual Studio's and Resharper's. They are identical except in those few cases where VS 2019 has some new setting that 2017 did not.

This still happens even when all of VS2019's "automatically format" settings are off

I'm asking the same question of the Resharper folks but I think it has to do with the interaction of the two.

Is anyone else seeing anything like this? It's driving me nuts.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1318

Answers (1)

Joe
Joe

Reputation: 6816

After several hours of this, I have finally discovered that that problem was neither Visual Studio nor Resharper. It was actually a THIRD extension I use (also very common) for C++ files called Visual Assist".

VA has its own "format after paste" option. I am guessing that it must detect the reformat/click away as a "paste" operation and it reformats it according to Visual Studio's settings.

Once I disabled that in single, Visual Assist option VS2019 (as I apparently already had in 2017) everything worked well.

Upvotes: 3

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