Guidelines, a hidden feature for the Visual Studio editor
Aug 5th, 2005 by Brian A. Thomas
I discovered this little gem today, which helps me keep the code I write to an 80 character limit: Guidelines, a hidden feature for the Visual Studio editor.
My settings: RGB(243, 243, 243) 4, 79. Per one of the Feedbacks that said that gives it a light gray, which worked well for me, and the original post that the above links to, that says for Visual Studio 2005 that the numbers are 0 based. I hardly notice the lines, but it is nice they are there. I now have to wonder why Microsoft doesn’t enable this in the editor itself somewhere, rather then having to edit the Registry.
A small change of where it was at for me from where they have it do to the fact I am using the Express edition of C#:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\VCSExpress\8.0\Text Editor
I’ll apparently have to change it for Visual Basic Express to:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\VBExpress\8.0\Text Editor
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