How do you auto format code in Visual Studio

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I know Visual Studio can auto format to make my methods and loops indented properly  but I cannot find the setting

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You can add the buttons to your toolbar by clicking the little drop down arrow to the right of the last toolbar button, select "Add or Remove Buttons" and then click the buttons you want to add a tick to them. The button(s) you select will appear on your toolbar ...

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Then you just select text and click the Increase Indent or Decrease Indent buttons. I tested this on Visual Studio 2013 only.

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Select the data and the right click and you will find this option  FORMAT DOCUMENT and FORMAT SELECTION

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With the Continuous Formatting extension  commercial  developed by me   the code is formatted really automatically as you type

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In newer versions  the shortcut for the document-wide formatting is  Shift   Alt   F

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The original question said  I cannot find the setting     Simple answer is   Look at top menu  then      Edit --  Advanced --  Format Document   You will also see the currently assigned key strokes for that function   Nothing special to memorize   This really helps if you use multiple developer environments on different operating systems

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Visual Studio Extension - CodeMaid is pretty fine

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Just to further Starwfanatic and Ewan s answers above  You can customise your IDE to add any button to any toolbar - so you can add the Format button  as the HTML Source Editing toolbar has  to any other toolbar  like Text Editing with all the other edit controls like increase decrease indent    Click the arrow to the right of the toolbar   Add or Remove Buttons   Customize      Commands tab   Add Command    button   Document Format and Selection Format are both under the Edit group    Tested in VS2010 and VS2013

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I know  I know  and old thread  P  If you are using Jetbrains Resharper - the easiest way to format you code is to use the CTRL   ALT   ENTER shortcut  Reformat code

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If you display the HTML Source Editing toolbar there is a  Format the Whole Document  button as well

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If it s still not working then you can select your entire document  copy and paste and it will reformat  So     ctrl-a ctrl-c ctrl-v This is the only thing that I have found that works in VS Community Mac

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In windows  use the following  Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl   E  D or Menu Edit   Advanced   Format Document

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To format a selection  Ctrl K  Ctrl F To format a document  Ctrl K  Ctrl D See the pre-defined keyboard shortcuts   These two are Edit FormatSelection and Edit FormatDocument   Note for macOS On macOS  use the CMD   key instead of Ctrl   To format a selection  CMD   K  CMD   F To format a document  CMD   K  CMD   D

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Its Shift   Alt   F in windows But you can always double check by doing following   Go to View  gt  Command Palette or press Ctrl   Shift   P Search for Format Document You can press that to Auto Format Code or its Hot Key  written in front of it

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On mac   Shift   Option   F  On ubuntu   Ctrl   Shift   I

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If you can afford it  or if you re eligible for the 30-day free trial  Jetbrains ReSharper can reformat a whole project directory   Just install -  Right-click a directory -  select Cleanup Code from the context menu

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Go to Tools -  Extensions  amp  Updates and type  productivity  in search   Install  Productivity Power Tools 2015  Restart VS  Go to Tools -  Options -  Productivity Power Tools -  Power Commands and check  Format document on save

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I have a Mac and I clicked Code   Preferences   Settings   Workspace   Formatting and then selected Format On Save    Now every time I hit cmd   s it auto formats the file

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In Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 for C  code   Scroll to the end of the file Remove the last  quot curly bracket quot     Wait until the line above it shows an error Replace the  quot curly bracket quot     Fini

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In VS 2017 and 2019     Format Document is CTRL E   D    But   if you want to add the Format Document button to a tool bar do this  Right click on tool bar  Select  Customize    Select the  Commands  Tab  Select the  Toolbar  radio button  Select  Text Editor  from the pull down next to the radio button  or what ever tool bar you want the botton on   Now     Click the Add Command button  Categories  Edit Commands  Document Format Click OK

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In Visual Studio 2019    quot Code Cleanup quot   RunDefaultCodeCleanup  is more advanced  taken from ReSharper   Ctrl   K  Ctrl   E Options dialog box  Text Editor   C    Code Style   Formatting Auto formatting settings in Visual  Studio

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Under Under Tools -  Options -  Text Editor  then going to the Formatting -  General section of whatever language you wish to format you will find General   Check all three formatting check-boxes   Under Tools -  Options -  Text Editor  then going to the TABS section of whatever language you wish to format you will find Indenting   Select Smart and it will activate automatic formatting whenever you use one of the closing elements       within that block     No need for keystrokes

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Select the text you want to automatically indent   Click Format Selection in Edit  Advanced  or press CTRL K  CTRL F  Format Selection applies the smart indenting rules for the language in which you are programming to the selected text   Step  1   - CTRL A  Step  2   - CTRL K  Step  3   - CTRL F

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You can also try right menu click option to format the selection of the coding document  Take a look at below screen shot

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I have installed an extension named  Format document on Save  which formats the whole document every time you save it  For install it in VS15 or 17  on Tools just click the  Extensions and Updates         And then just go to  Online  at the left panel and search for  Format document on save    I hope it helps

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Even though the question is a bit old  someone might find it handy   You can define new key bindings by going to Tools - gt  options - gt  Environment - gt  keyboard

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Cut Paste of a section is another quick way  and easy to remember

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The solution provided in accepted answer does not apply to Microsoft Visual Studio 2012    In case of VS2012 the shortcuts are    For a highlighted block of code  Ctrl   K  Ctrl   F  For the document-wide formatting  Ctrl   K  Ctrl   D

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Right click     Works in VS 2015  maybe earlier version

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For Visual Studio 2010 2013 2015 2017 2019   Format Document  Ctrl K Ctrl D   so type Ctrl K  AND THEN Ctrl D as it is a sequence Format Selection   Ctrl K Ctrl F     Toolbar Edit -  Advanced  If you can t see Advanced  select a code file in solution explorer and try again   Your shortcuts might display differently to mine as I am set up for C  coding but navigating via the toolbar will get you to your ones   If it isn t working  look for errors in your code  like missing brackets which stop auto format from working

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I used to use these combinations  I automated this process on Save of a document  You can try mine extension Format Document on Save

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You can also use this extension

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Follow the steps below    Go to menu Tools Go to Options Go to the Text Editor options Click the language of your choice  I used C  as an example    See the below image

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