Adding a guideline to the editor in Visual Studio

Question

Introduction

I\'ve always been searching for a way to make Visual Studio draw a line after a certain amount of characters.

Below is a guide

Answer 1

Without the need to edit any registry keys, the Productivity Power Tools extension (available for all versions of visual studio) provides guideline functionality.

Once installed just right click while in the editor window and choose the add guide line option. Note that the guideline will always be placed on the column where your editing cursor is currently at, regardless of where you right click in the editor window.

To turn off go to options and find Productivity Power Tools and in that section turn off Column Guides. A reboot will be necessary.