Stop Visual Studio from mixing line endings in files

Question

When opening a text based file in Visual Studio 2010 it will then write my edits with CRLF instead of the line ending format of the original file  How can I stop VS from doing this  Any half decent editor should have this capability   What s worse is that since VS wrote the file with portions in CRLF  it then  when opening the file again  will present a dialog asking me to convert the files line ending

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In Visual Studio 2015  this still holds in 2019 for the same value   check the setting   Tools   Options   Environment   Documents   Check for consistent line endings on load  VS2015 will now prompt you to convert line endings when you open a file where they are inconsistent  so all you need to do is open the files  select the desired option from the prompt and save them again

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see http   editorconfig org and https   docs microsoft com en-us visualstudio ide create-portable-custom-editor-options view vs-2017   If it does not exist  add a new file called  editorconfig for your project manipulate editor config to use your preferred behaviour    I prefer spaces over tabs  and CRLF for all code files  Here s my  editorconfig    http   editorconfig org root   true      indent style   space indent size   4 end of line   crlf charset   utf-8 trim trailing whitespace   true insert final newline   true     md  trim trailing whitespace   false     tmpl html  indent size   4     scss  indent size   2

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With VS2010  there is a plugin solution  Line Endings Unifier    With the plugin installed you can right click files and folders in the solution explorer and invoke the menu item Unify Line Endings in this file  Configuration for this is available via     Tools -  Options -  Line Endings Unifier     The default file extension list that is included is pretty narrow     cpp   c   h   hpp   cs   js   vb   txt    Might want to use something like     cpp   c   h   hpp   cs   js   vb   txt   scss   coffee   ts   jsx   markdown   config

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On the File menu  choose Advanced Save Options  you can control it there   Edit  Here s the documentation  you should have a file open first

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