Make Visual Studio more Eclipse-like

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I've recently switched from Java programming in Eclipse to C++ programming in Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio is a fantastic IDE overall but I found myself seriously missing three features from Eclipse:

Automatic insertion of close braces.
Automatic tab alignment of pasted code. Consider pasting code with 2 indents into a section with 3 indents. In Eclipse, the pasted code adopts the 3 indents of its surroundings; in Visual Studio, the first line has 5 indents and the remaining lines have 2 indents (!).
Display of errors, warnings and TODOs on the vertical ruler at the right, line-by-line (e.g. see this picture).

Microsoft's Productivity Power Tools extension includes Auto Brace Completion, as does this stand-alone extension. Does anyone know how to get the functionality of 2 and 3, or something similar?

ReSharper (aka R#) takes care of #3. Not sure how to handle #2 .. all my indents are consistent :D — user2246674, May 14 '13 at 01:25
No, but I found this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4954129/resharper-for-c — 1'', May 14 '13 at 01:29

Sergi0 · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-14T02:06:19.487

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AStyle addon that works with C++ also take a look at Visual Assist, but it's not free

edited May 14 '13 at 02:06

answered May 14 '13 at 01:32

Sergi0

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The question you linked to is C# only. – 1'' May 14 '13 at 01:43
yeah, my bad, added proper link – Sergi0 May 14 '13 at 02:06

Make Visual Studio more Eclipse-like

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