Formatting settings in Visual Studio 2019 use K&R-derived layout and more.

K&R layout

For set K&R layout in Visual Studio 2019, from top menu: Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Formatting options:

• move open braces to a new line for namespaces

    namespace Namespace1
    {
        namespace Namespace2
        {
        }
    }
  

• keep open braces on the same line for types

    namespace Namespace1
    class Class1 {
    };
  

• move open braces to a new line for functions

    void Function1()
    {
    }
  

• keep open braces on the same line for control blocks

    void Function()
    {
        while (cin >> word) {
            if (word.length() > 2) {
            }
        }
    }
  

• keep open braces on the same line for lambadas

    void Function()
    {
        auto lambda1 = []() {
        };
        auto lambda2 = [&]() {
        };
    }
  

• place braces on separate lines for scopes

    void Function()
    {
        // Scope
        {
            int i;
        }
    }
  

• keep close braces on the same line for empty types, function bodies.

    class MyException
    {}
  
    MyClass::~MyClass()
    {}
  

• place ‘catch’, ‘else’ and similar keywords on a new line

    try {
    }
    catch (...) {
    }
  
    if (a < b) {
    }
    else {
    }
  

  

  

Indent

For set indent in Visual Studio 2019, from top menu: Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Tabs options:

Tips: If you set the indentation to Keep tabs, then 8 spaces will be displayed on Github. You can add ?ts=4 to a diff or file URL will display tab characters as 4 spaces wide instead of the default 8. For more details and other nuggets, please see github-cheat-sheet

Line width

For set line width in Visual Studio 2019:

1. From top menu: Extensions -> Manage Extensions options. (Ctrl + Shift + X)

2. Search(Ctrl + E) editor Guidelines in the upper right corner and Download the editor Guidelines.

   

3. Close Visual Studio 2019 and start installing this extension.

   

4. For set line width, from top menu: View -> Other Windows -> Command Window options. Edit.AddGuideline and Edit.RemoveGuideline commands used to set the line width and remove the line width.

   i.e. to place a guide to the right of column 110, use Edit.AddGuideline 110.

   

Reset the settings to default

For reset the settings in Visual Studio 2019, from top menu: Tools -> Import and Export Settings...options, you can also import or export settings.