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KJSR
KJSR

Reputation: 1757

How to stop Visual Studio 2019 auto formatting my Designer file

I am struggling to find a solution to stop Visual studio to Auto Format my .Designer.vb file.

I have turned off Pretty Listing under

Options > Text Editor > Basic > Advanced

However it still wants to format my designer file when I save changes.

Here are one example when I compare against original

Previous

Me._lstview_ColumnHeader_1 = CType(New System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader(),System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader)

After Saving 

Me._lstview_ColumnHeader_1= CType(New System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader(), System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader)

You can see above it has added space between , System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader

Many places has had the above.

Also some places have had bracket () removed and True changed to true

I am not exactly sure what else could be causing this?

I am also using ReSharper and have turned off the following options and still no luck

Am I missing something?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 778

Answers (1)

jmcilhinney
jmcilhinney

Reputation: 54477

You can't stop it because it's not happening. Your designer code file isn't being reformatted. It's being rewritten. That's exactly why it is recommended that you don't make changes to that file by hand. Every time you make changes in the designer, the IDE rewrites that file. That's it, that's all. Generally speaking, the only reason that you should be making changes in that file is if a VS bug broke it and you need to fix it. Other genuine reasons might include replacing a standard control with a derived control that adds functionality. You shouldn't really care what the designer code file looks like anyway, because you should pretty much never be in there.

Upvotes: 3

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