How can I make Visual Studio wrap lines at 80 characters

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Is there any way to make Visual Studio word-wrap at 80 characters   I m using VS2008   This post is loosely related

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I stumbled upon this question when was actually searching for an answer to this one  how to add a visual line guideline at char limit   So I would like to leave a ref to it here for anyone like myself

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I don t think you can make VS wrap at 80 columns  I d find that terribly annoying  but you can insert a visual guideline at 80 columns so you know when is a good time to insert a newline   Details on inserting a guideline at 80 characters for 3 different versions of visual studio

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Unless someone can recommend a free tool to do this  you can achieve this with ReSharper   ReSharper    Options       Languages C     Line Breaks and Wrapping   Check  Wrap long lines  Set  Right Margin  columns   to the required value  default is 120    Hope that helps

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Adds vertical column guides to the Visual Studio text editor  This version is for Visual Studio 2012  Visual Studio 2013 or Visual Studio 2015   See the plugin

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To do this with Visual Assist  another non-free tool    VAssistX    Visual Assist X Options    Advanced    Display   Check  Display indicator after column  and set the number field to 80

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Adds vertical column guides to the Visual Studio text editor  This version is for Visual Studio 2012  Visual Studio 2013 or Visual Studio 2015   See the plugin

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Unless someone can recommend a free tool to do this  you can achieve this with ReSharper   ReSharper    Options       Languages C     Line Breaks and Wrapping   Check  Wrap long lines  Set  Right Margin  columns   to the required value  default is 120    Hope that helps

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Tools    Options    Text Editor    All Languages    General    Select Word Wrap     I dont know if you can select a specific number of columns

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You can also use  Ctrl E  Ctrl W   keyboard shortcut to toggle wrap lines on and off

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I don t think you can make VS wrap at 80 columns  I d find that terribly annoying  but you can insert a visual guideline at 80 columns so you know when is a good time to insert a newline   Details on inserting a guideline at 80 characters for 3 different versions of visual studio

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See also this answer in order to switch the mode conveniently  Citation   I use this feature often enough that I add a custom button to the command bar  Click on the Add or Remove - gt  Customize Click on the Commands tab Select Edit Advanced from the list Find Toggle Word Wrap and drag it onto your bar

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Unless someone can recommend a free tool to do this  you can achieve this with ReSharper   ReSharper    Options       Languages C     Line Breaks and Wrapping   Check  Wrap long lines  Set  Right Margin  columns   to the required value  default is 120    Hope that helps

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If the problem is simply that you want to know when you pass 80 characters for a single line  which is a common coding guideline limit  you can use a different approach  Editor Guidelines  This will add vertical column guides behind your code

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If the problem is simply that you want to know when you pass 80 characters for a single line  which is a common coding guideline limit  you can use a different approach  Editor Guidelines  This will add vertical column guides behind your code

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Unless someone can recommend a free tool to do this  you can achieve this with ReSharper   ReSharper    Options       Languages C     Line Breaks and Wrapping   Check  Wrap long lines  Set  Right Margin  columns   to the required value  default is 120    Hope that helps

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Tools    Options    Text Editor    All Languages    General    Select Word Wrap     I dont know if you can select a specific number of columns

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Tools    Options    Text Editor    All Languages    General    Select Word Wrap     I dont know if you can select a specific number of columns

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I don t think you can make VS wrap at 80 columns  I d find that terribly annoying  but you can insert a visual guideline at 80 columns so you know when is a good time to insert a newline   Details on inserting a guideline at 80 characters for 3 different versions of visual studio

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I stumbled upon this question when was actually searching for an answer to this one  how to add a visual line guideline at char limit   So I would like to leave a ref to it here for anyone like myself

User · Answer

To do this with Visual Assist  another non-free tool    VAssistX    Visual Assist X Options    Advanced    Display   Check  Display indicator after column  and set the number field to 80

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Tools    Options    Text Editor    All Languages    General    Select Word Wrap     I dont know if you can select a specific number of columns

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See also this answer in order to switch the mode conveniently  Citation   I use this feature often enough that I add a custom button to the command bar  Click on the Add or Remove - gt  Customize Click on the Commands tab Select Edit Advanced from the list Find Toggle Word Wrap and drag it onto your bar

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I don t think you can make VS wrap at 80 columns  I d find that terribly annoying  but you can insert a visual guideline at 80 columns so you know when is a good time to insert a newline   Details on inserting a guideline at 80 characters for 3 different versions of visual studio

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You can also use  Ctrl E  Ctrl W   keyboard shortcut to toggle wrap lines on and off

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