Freeze part of code against formatting

Question

Is there a way to lock or freeze a part of code against formatting in Visual Studio?

I want to protect the following code :

Method("This is a long text", 12 , true  );
Method("Hi",                  558, true  );
Method("Short text",          1  , false );

to be formatted as:

Method("This is a long text", 12, true);
Method("Hi", 558, true);
Method("Short text", 1, false);

but still be able to format the rest of the document.

do you mean when you for instance push `ctrl-k` `ctrl-f` for "format file" that you want to skip these lines? — default, Feb 15 '13 at 13:00
It's no duplicate because I constantly use formatting. I don't want it off. Just want to freeze that part — Mohsen Sarkar, Feb 15 '13 at 13:02
@Default `ctrl-k` ← for bookmark `ctrl-f` ← for find/search — spajce, Feb 15 '13 at 13:04
As others have said - there's no built-in way of doing this. Additionally, since it is a very specific case, why not move that code into a separate Source_Unfmt.cs file. — Jesse, Feb 15 '13 at 17:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 15 '13 at 13:06

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You can turn it off completely (Options->TextEditor->Basic->General) uncheck off Pretty Listing. And under Options->Text Editor->C#->Formatting turning off options there.

But, sadly, there isn't any built-in option to selectively prevent formatting a portion of code.

answered Feb 15 '13 at 13:06

hometoast

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I doubt.. there must be a way to achieve that. Maybe not directly as a option but maybe some plugin do that – Mohsen Sarkar Feb 15 '13 at 13:07
Even R# doesn't have a way to mark a selection do-not-format. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2176429/is-there-a-way-to-mark-up-code-to-tell-resharper-not-to-format-it) – hometoast Feb 15 '13 at 13:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 15 '13 at 13:11

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The ReSharper formatting style, is the key for your problem.

answered Feb 15 '13 at 13:11

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Can you post link to some screenshot from formatted code by ReSharper ? – Mohsen Sarkar Feb 15 '13 at 13:13
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Resharper has LOTS of options for formatting. But not for protecting one section of code. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2090354/is-there-a-way-to-keep-resharper-from-formatting-a-region-of-code) – hometoast Feb 15 '13 at 13:16
it might be this feature will be added is in another version. we will wait `:)` – spajce Feb 15 '13 at 16:09

Freeze part of code against formatting

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