Turn off auto formatting in Visual Studio

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I m a code purist  preferring my own style of code formatting as opposed to Visual Studio s default settings  I ve turned off auto-formatting options in Tools options  In most cases it works   After using any of the built-in refactorings  Visual Studio clobbers my settings with its default settings  How do I keep VS from doing that

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I was pissed off every time I pasted anything in cshtml file in Visual Studio 2015  2017  I tried different settings and finally found the proper one  Options   gt  Text Editor   gt  HTML   gt  Advanced   gt  Paste  Format on paste    gt  False

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I see that many answers here solve the problem for a specific situation  For my situation I continually found that the IDE would automatically format JavaScript code within an ASP page  To disable  I unchecked this box   In addition  I found it very helpful to use the search query in the toolbar  CTRL Q  and just search for the text format on paste  As you can see with the scroll bar  there are quite a few options to check

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In addition to Tango s answer for the actual solution  there may be people actually want to stay current with auto-formats but not have it screw up your relevant changes   I would suggest that you modify the file to have auto-format activate  check in those changes  then proceed with the actual changes you wish to make   That way your code can stay up to date  but your check in will be relevant

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You can tweak the settings of the code formatting  I always turn off all extra line breaks  and then it works fine for how I format the code   If you tweak the settings as close as you can to your preference  that should leave you minimal work whenever you use refactoring

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In my case  it was ReSharper  Test if ReSharper StackOverflow  How can I disable ReSharper in Visual Studio and enable it again  Prevent ReSharper from reformatting code StackOverflow  Is there a way to mark up code to tell ReSharper not to format it  Update 2017-03-01 It was ReSharper in the end   Update 2020-12-18 On the latest version of ReSharper  there are more options  untick everything on this page  and ensure all dropdowns are set to the equivalent of None  ReSharper  quot typing assist quot  is like a 3-year-old trying to  quot help quot  build a card castle  A simple backspace or an enter key will  poorly  reformat entire blocks of code  requiring it to be undone or painfully formatted back to the original  And if that is not enough  this is the bit that adds delays when typing so sometimes it feels like trying to run in skis

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Follow TOOLS- OPTIONS- Text Editor- CSS- Formatting Choose  Compact Rules  and uncheck  Hiearerchical indentation

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It can be the case of Clang Format  Previously  the entire file is automatically formatted on file save  and it drove me nuts  for the repositories which Clang Format is not enabled    Such behavior is gone after turning  Tools -  Option -  LLVM Clang -  ClangFormat -  Format On Save -  Enable  to False

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VS2015 settings that helped me prevent auto formatting    and Tools   Options   Text Editor   Basic   Advanced  just like Tango91 suggested

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The reformat on semicolon or closing brace cannot be turned off   I find it infuriating the Microsoft would have the temerity to tell anyone how to format code  the most illegible code I have ever seen was while working there   I want adjacent assignments to be vertically aligned  VS reformats them to one space on either side of the equal sign irrespective of the length of the variable on the left   This is intolerable   And turning it off on the editor options is ignored  given comments like the opener above I am certain this is deliberate   Consistency is only a virtue when it leads to desirable outcomes   This is not one

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I had this problem while writing VB in an aspx page   The solution was to go to  Tools   Options   Text Editor   Basic   VB Specific  and turn  Pretty Listing  OFF     Note - in Visual Studio 2015 this can be found at   Tools   Options   Text Editor   Basic   Advanced

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As suggest by  TheMatrixRecoder took a bit of finding for me so maybe this will help someone else    Unitick these options to prevent annoying automated formatting when you places a semicolon or hit return at the end of a line

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Try disabling the extension Bundler  amp  Minifier

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Disable pretty listing  It is the option that re-formats what you are doing  I had the same discomfort with it and after doing it  my code stays how i want and it doesn t go back to previous settings

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You might have had Power Tool installed   In this case you can turn it off from  Tools   Options   Productivity Power Tools   PowerCommands   General

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In VS2017 you can change it after selecting your coding language in the settings menu  There is an option called  new Lines  in the  Formatting -submenu

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I doubt that you can disable re-formatting after refactoring  Refactoring changes code and since it s only text I doubt what you d want is that it just dumps unformatted text into your source  Wouldn t it be a little easier to just set the code style VS adheres to to the style you like and follow

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