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

Question

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

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Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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

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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

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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.