Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Guidelines - a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

VSEditor's WebLog — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 04:54:00 GMT

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Uwe Keim — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 05:26:00 GMT

For which version of VS.NET does this apply? 2002? 2003? 2005?

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Uwe Keim — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 05:27:00 GMT

Oh, just read... shame on me, sorry :-)

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

sara ford — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:34:00 GMT

It will work on Visual Studio .NET 2003 and should work on Visual Studio .NET 2002, but use at your own risk on either. I tested that it does work on 2003, but very little, so i can't ensure product stability using guidelines there. And i have *not* tested it at all on 2002, but the notes i have say it should work there.

If you encounter an issue on any version, let me know.

-sara

Feature nascoste di Visual Studio 2005

Di .NET e di altre amenita' — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:49:00 GMT

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Andreas Häber — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:37:00 GMT

Guidelines? Brilliant!

I've often thought that such a feature would be nice to have, happily some dev at the VS team thought about that too. I'll let you know when/if it crashes ;) (I'm using VS2003 btw.)

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Black Fox — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:06:00 GMT

Nice timing , i was searching it recently...

Thanks a lot

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP] — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 06:52:00 GMT

Just the sort of thing to go into "VS PowerToys"... (where'd I see that idea kicked around...?)

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Steven Cohn — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:25:00 GMT

Seems to work OK, but I can't seem to alter the color. Regardless of RGB values, it always draws a black dotted line.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

BillT — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:06:00 GMT

Note the typo:
Guides = RBG(128,0,0) 5, 80
should be RGB, I assume.

Guidelines in Visual Studio text editor.

The Emission Locus — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:17:00 GMT

Guidelines in Visual Studio text editor.

The Emission Locus — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:18:00 GMT

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Alain — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:11:00 GMT

On Visual Studio 2003, you should use

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\Text Editor
Guides=RGB(192, 192, 192) 80

Be care about the space between Text and Editor !

Regards

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Jasper22 — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:03:00 GMT

Alain

No effect on my Visual Studio 2003

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OdeToCode Link Blog — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:42:00 GMT

Guidelines – Do Not Function For Me

Clinton Gallagher — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:37:00 GMT

RegEdit:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TextEditor
Edit > New > String Value: Guides
Edit > Modify > Value Data: RGB(254,252,252) 4

Results in no change for either VS2003 or VS2005.

Modified Value Data As: =RGB(254,252,252) 4 does not produce results either.

Ironically, just this morning before reading this blog item I sent a suggestion to MSDN Feedback Center asking for the addition of 'status' when backspacing to prevent the annoying backspace to previous line which happens when backspacing past the 0th column which I am too blind to see perceptively.

Guidelines would do I suppose but again, they do not function for me and I believe I have modified the registry correctly as shown above. Please advise.

csgallagher@REMOVETHISTEXTmetromilwaukee.com

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Jože Marinček — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:21:00 GMT

Depends also on background - using default white (default on my system), RGB(255,252,252) will produce white guidelnes on white background - not much to see there, except through selection :-)

Change the colour.

Pozn

ISlavoF.Save() — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:17:00 GMT

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Harry Bosch — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:10:00 GMT

Works nicely on VS2003, but not heavily tested yet. One suggestion (which may not apply with VS2005): The guide line shows up in the Output window too, which I find distracting. I'd like it to show up in my documents only, I don't want them in the Output window.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

RichB — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:05:00 GMT

Works OK for me in VS2003 - however I have no idea what use they'd be.

Sara - What does the Guidelines spec say is the intended usage scenario?

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Alain — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:21:00 GMT

RichB

I will use this feature to prevent me when I write more than 100 char in one line.
My source will be more readable and printable.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

sara ford — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:06:00 GMT

Hi Clinton,

RGB(255, 252, 252) shows a white guideline. If you go to Tools Options - Fonts and Colors - Text Editor, and change the Text background to black, you'll see the white guideline.

thanks!
-sara

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

zeddock — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:57:00 GMT

May I suggest that someone should post a screenshot for this?

Thanx,
zeddock

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

sara ford — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:11:00 GMT

Yep, that can be arranged. I'll update the post with a picture.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Mike Dunn — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 02:26:00 GMT

Nice. It works fine in VC 7.1 for me. I had been using the Visual Assist guideline feature, but that has funny redraw problems when you scroll w/the wheel. This built-in one looks better.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

sara ford — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:00:00 GMT

Post updated with image. Thanks!

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Kenny — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:36:00 GMT

As a user of several editors that expose an equivalent feature, the definition of the column numbers actually seems quite intuitive to me. The position of the guide is usually defined as being displayed *after* the specified column. Defining "4 29" in your example would create guides after column 4 and after column 29, which is exactly what your screenshot shows.

This is a feature that I've always missed in Visual Studio. I was especially happy to see that it also works in VS 2003, although I agree that it would be nice to have it only in the source code windows and not in the output window.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

sara ford — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:21:00 GMT

I couldn't agree more with just having the guidelines show in the source code, and not in the command window, output window, etc (any tool window that contains an VsTextView editor).

I'm recording all these suggestions, comments and feedback for the next version.

Guidelines in Visual Studio.NET

Jed Blog — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:03:00 GMT

baris's blog — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:04:00 GMT

Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor An obvious no-brainer, just delete the Guides keys you created above. Restart VS, and no more guidelines....

Guidelines in Visual Studio text editor

The Emission Locus — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:55:00 GMT

Add a column guide to Visual Studio .NET 2003

Nate's Blog — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 02:17:00 GMT

Guidelines in Visual Studio

Angelos Petropoulos' WebLog — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:01:00 GMT

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Tom Seddon — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:59:42 GMT

The text needs to be drawn on top of the guidelines rather than the other way around. Particularly distracting if you have guidelines that are closer to the background colour than the text colour.

This doesn't affect all fonts; only those that are flush with the left edge of their bounding box as far as I can tell. (I have a couple of bitmap fonts that are like this, having the spare column on the right- rather than the left-hand edge.)

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Tom Seddon — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:02:35 GMT

Sorry, should add:

1. Obviously the feature works for me (VS.NET 2002);

2. I noticed the 'lines on top of text' because I was trying out having guidelines at each tab stop. It would be handy for future revisions of the editor to not necessarily draw text on guidelines but perhaps when programming in languages that have curly braces draw a vertical line to the corresponding matching curly brace when the cursor is on a curly brace. The editor "scite" does this, and it's dead handy.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Thomas Due — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:37:23 GMT

It actually works in VS 2003 too.

Visual Studio Tip of the Day

Jan Schreuder on .Net — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:08:38 GMT

What!? You're Not Done Yet?

Wintellog — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 05:13:17 GMT

Visual Studio Guidelines

CraigBlog — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 16:05:43 GMT

Guidelines for Visual Studio

Digital Thoughts — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:37:24 GMT

Many thanks to Craig for pointing out thsi very useful (hidden) feature of Visual Studio:

Via...

Guias verticais no editor de c?digo do Visual Studio

How Things (Should) Work — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:13:25 GMT

Vertical Guidelines

BorisJ's Blog — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:49:13 GMT

Now here is a feature that we should expose far more prominently (and I'll push the core team to do so)...

Vertical Guidelines

BorisJ's Blog — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 04:55:32 GMT

Now here is a feature that we should expose far more prominently (and I'll push the core team to do so)...

Add a column guide to Visual Stuiod .NET 2003

Nate's Blog — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:21:32 GMT

I just happened to stumble onto this
useful piece of information today. There is a hidden guidline feature
in Visual Studio 2003. This isn't all that important to most people
anymore since code is rarely edited on a 80 column display but it is a
nice

re: Guidelines – A Future Feature for Visual Studio Editor?

Opher — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 05:59:57 GMT

Well, I've read the post, the updates and the comments. No one has suggested the obvious: This is good so make it official! Put it in the product, as an Option, with a real UI and a dialog box (maybe even a PREVIEW?) that will be documented, supported, etc. I suspect no one reading these blogs is timid about editing the registry, but how about "casual" programmers? How about the VS Express products - does this "hidden feature" work? Wouldn't the whole VS product line be "better" with guidelines as a 'feature' rather than a 'hack'?

Guidelines in Visual Studio 2005

Wouter van Vugt — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:07:28 GMT

Guidelines in Visual Studio 2005

Wouter van Vugt — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:16:25 GMT

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Tanveer — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:40:13 GMT

I am using VS 6.0 and want to add Guidlines in it. I am not able to do so.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

mrk — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 01:35:04 GMT

A command to toggle the display of guidelines in the text editor could be useful too, bind it to a key to view when you want guidance.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Tobias — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:37:13 GMT

Thanks a lot! Those guidelines work perfectly within Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition August CTP, too. You just have to create a string value called Guides (using the information above) not under

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Text Editor

but under

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\VCExpress\8.0\Text Editor

Hopefully there will be a straightforward configuration option in later versions of VS rather than modifying the registry manually.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Chris Christodoulou — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:39:47 GMT

Very useful feature! The first thing I tried to do was make guidelines of different colors:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Text Editor]
"Guides"="RGB(200,200,255) 2,RGB(255,200,200) 4"
but VS only used the last color. It would be rather cool if multiple color guides were supported so when many guides are shown one wouldn't have to count them to find the right spot. Other than that, good stuff!

Cheers,

Chris

How to add a underline for currentline

John Cui — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:45:15 GMT

Yes, this is a very good feature, and I would more like a underline for currentline in editor, does it possible?

Visual Studio editor guides

Marcin Celej — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:43:32 GMT

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re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Gorky — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:13:55 GMT

Quick tip if it's not working:

Make sure you set the registry value for *HKEY_CURRENT_USER* not HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE which is what I tried at first and couldn't get it to work. I typically head to local machine in the registry out of habit.

Guidelines in Visual Studio 2002, 2003 and 2005 text editors (Thanks to Channel 9 and Sara Ford)

Eric Hammersley — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 08:04:30 GMT

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

bill — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:06:46 GMT

if you find it difficult to find some text editors , go http://www.yaodownload.com/web-authoring/web-design-utilities/cx-nav-bar/ , this is an excellent text editor.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Troy Scheffel — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:22:38 GMT

Thanks for the tip; works great (in VS2005 at least, I haven't tried it for VS.Net and hopefuly won't need to). I've longed for this simple feature in VS.Net/2005. All other good code editors I've used over the years had this feature.

Someone asked why you'd want this feature. I use two lines, one set at column 77 which is where I start most line comments and one set at column 120 which indicates where no text should extend beyond (to prevent line wrapping during printing). Thus, my Guides value is "RGB(255,0,0) 76, 119" (255 = dark red).

ttfn

Кому нужен Right Margin

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re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Mythran — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:06:51 GMT

Is there another hack to perform the same thing, but horizontally? How about having multiple guidelines with different colors for each?

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Giuseppe Turitto — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:54:19 GMT

Thank You very much this is the most handy trick, Actually I tested for SQLmanager and works beautifull.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]/Software/Microsoft/Microsoft SQL Server/90/Tools/Shell/Text Editor/

and from there create the Guides String value, and everything its the same.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

JDang — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:28:28 GMT

Very cool, thanks a lot guys. However, it also show the line in Command and Output windows of Visual studio 2005. Are there any way to turn it off. I just want the line in Codes window only.

JDang

给Visual Studio 2005设置一个代码边界线，提醒自己，别写的太长哦。

武眉博 — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:00:15 GMT

Codeproject上有一个关于代码宽度的调查http://www.codeproject.com/script/survey/detail.asp?survey=590

Magerquark.de » Visual Studio 2005 .NET-Tipps

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给Visual Studio添加引导线

Nihgwu — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:07:38 GMT

今天在http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Guidelines.as...上看到的一编文章，是个很好的工具，也可以作为如何操作注册表的例子看一下。效果图如下：

Guidelines in Visual Studio 2005

Wouter van Vugt — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:46:43 GMT

A nice feature to verify coding styles: Guidelines . Missed this one in the previous VStudio.

re: Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

Arvind — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:49:30 GMT

This question was once asked before in the forum but nover got answered. Is it possible to get these guidelines working for Visual Studio 6.0? If not natively supported is there any add-in available that will do the job. ~ Arvind

Vertical Guidelines in Visual Studio

ploeh blog — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:59:23 GMT

From time to time, I've found myself wishing that Visual Studio had vertical guidelines in the code editor.

Adding Guides to Visual Studio

Eden Ridgway's Blog — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:55:44 GMT

Adding Guides to Visual Studio

Guidelines

junmy — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:13:51 GMT

see: http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2004/11/15/257953.aspx

译：Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

thyking xiao — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:00:20 GMT

在vs.net 2005 编辑器中设置一条代码边界线，以防止自己的代码行写的过长。

Guidelines in Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005

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It's a necessary evil in my line of work, but as a software developer I reliably screw up my development

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