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.NET Forum / Visual Studio.NET / Setup / March 2005Can I Expand Tabs to Spaces in Wizard Generated Files
Is there a way to remove the tab characters in the files that are created by the Visual Studio Wizards. I can set the Tab format in the Tools>Options...>Text Editor>All Languages>Tabs so that the tab size is 4 and spaces are inserted instead of the tab characters. Now when I edit the wizard generated pages, I get a mess with some lines with tabs on them (the originals) and some without. It's the tab characters that are inserted by the Wizards when one creates a new project - Global.asax.cs in a .NET Forms application for example - that it would be nice to get rid of. Ed -- Edward E.L. Mitchell Web: www.racesail.org Phone: (239)415-7039 6707 Daniel Court Fort Myers, FL 33908 Hi Ed, We are looking into this issue currently and will post a reply after doing some research. Thanks for your patience, Rhett Gong [MSFT] Microsoft Online Partner Support Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights. Hi Ed, >Is there a way to remove the tab characters in the files that are created by >the Visual Studio Wizards. Do you mean the web page files whose html code will be generated and modified by the VS.NET automatically? If so, I am afraid this is a known issue of the current version of VS.NET, it is a by design feature and now we havn't a good method to change this behavior, however we receive many feedbacks on this problem and will do some improvement on the next VS.NET "Whidbey". Thanks for your understanding! Best regards, Gary Chang Microsoft Community Support -------------------- Get Secure! ¡§C www.microsoft.com/security Register to Access MSDN Managed Newsgroups! http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/servicedesks/msdn/nospam.asp &SD=msdn This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Gary, The same thing applies when creating a project that has files that are intended to be edited. If I create a test project for an MFC app with the default conditions, a number of files are created - test.cpp, testdoc.cpp, MainFrm.cpp, etc. Everyone of these files is full of tabs put there by the create wizard. These are intended for me to add my own code and it's certainly a mess when there is a mix of tabs and spaces. Hopefully this will also be addressed in the upcoming version. Ed > Hi Ed, > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no > rights. Hi Ed, Gary dones't feel well and is taking sick leave today. So I backup this issue. Based on my experience, all the format setting of VS.NET IDE can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/ht ml/vxtskManagingCodeFormatting.asp To replace Tab with Space, we can set "Insert Spaces" Option. If you met any unexpected behavior, could you please post the detailed repro steps here? We will follow the steps and pass it to our product team if we can reproduce the issue. Thanks very much. Best regards, Yanhong Huang Microsoft Community Support Get Secure! ¨C www.microsoft.com/security Register to Access MSDN Managed Newsgroups! -http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/servicedesks/msdn/nospam.as p&SD=msdn This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hi Ed, The repro steps mean: 1) Detailed steps when you created the project 2) Setting in IDE at that time 3) Which line of IDE generated code has that error? Thanks very much. Best regards, Yanhong Huang Microsoft Community Support Get Secure! ¨C www.microsoft.com/security Register to Access MSDN Managed Newsgroups! -http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/servicedesks/msdn/nospam.as p&SD=msdn This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Yanhong, I just create a new project and select Visual C++ Projects and MFC Application. I name the project Test and create in C:\Temp. Hit the "Finish" button to create the default project. Under Tools>Options>Text Editor>Tabs I define the tab and indent sizes as 4 and the radio button "Insert spaces" is checked. Now look at TestDoc.cpp, TestView.cpp, MainFrm.cpp. The are all full of tabs! Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yan-Hong Huang[MSFT]" <yhhuang@online.microsoft.com> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.vstudio.setup Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 12:52 AM Subject: Re: Can I Expand Tabs to Spaces in Wizard Generated Files > Hi Ed, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no > rights. Hi Ed, >Under Tools>Options>Text Editor>Tabs I define the tab and indent sizes as 4 >and the radio button "Insert spaces" is checked. > >Now look at TestDoc.cpp, TestView.cpp, MainFrm.cpp. The are all full of >tabs! The "Insert spaces" setting is just for the "Tab" of user's input, I mean when you type your code in the code editor window, the setting works. However on the other hand, those wizard generated code is some part of the VC Wizard's template file, it is not generated by the VS.NET IDE char by char, so the VS.NET's setting will not take effect to the VC Wizard generated code. Thanks for your understanding! Best regards, Gary Chang Microsoft Community Support -------------------- Get Secure! ¡§C www.microsoft.com/security Register to Access MSDN Managed Newsgroups! http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/servicedesks/msdn/nospam.asp &SD=msdn This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Just to finish the topic off! I found the best way to remove the tabs is to select all the code in the routine and then invoke Edit>Advanced>Untabify Selection. This will remove all the tabs and if the tab equivalent is set to 4 spaces, do what I want. A litttle extra work but not impossible. I can see that the templates that are used have to be tabs or no-tabs consistently. Ed > Hi Ed, > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no > rights. Bingo Ed, thanks for your update and sharing this useful tip with us! Have a good day! Best regards, Gary Chang Microsoft Community Support -------------------- Get Secure! ¡§C www.microsoft.com/security Register to Access MSDN Managed Newsgroups! http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/servicedesks/msdn/nospam.asp &SD=msdn This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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