Really With the styling we get in VS, there is a vertical line showing you what it goes to.

Tabs or spaces Theres even an insane (IMHO) assertion that the spaces people make more money.

Im surprised more people dont know about it and use it, so this blog post is my small way of getting the word out.

TELL THE PEOPLE. Take a project and make a new.editorconfig file and put this in it.

Ill use a dotnet new console example hello world app..cs indentstyle tab indentsize tab tabsize 4.

Notice the warning at the bottom where VS lets me know that this project has conventions that are different than my own.

This way your team can keep things consistent across projects.

If youre familiar with FxCop and StyleCop, this is like those.

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Theres at least a basic EditorConfig free extension for you that enforces the basic rules.

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There is also an extension for Visual Studio Code to support EditorConfig files that takes just seconds to install although I dont see a C one for now, just one for whitespace.

There are a few rough edges I really with would be addressed with the Visual Studio 2017 implementation though.

First, and most important to me, I really wish that File - New Project and File - New File would adhere to my settings.

Its really frustrating to always have to reformat every file when I create a new solution.

I really wish that I could set my preferences for.csproj files.

Not matter what I do, my csproj file always gets formatted with 2 space indentations.

Also, for file types like json or xml, it gets kind of frustrating that when Visual Studio modifies the file (for example adding an npm package to project.json or binding redirects getting added to web.config), the file always gets formatted with spaces regardless of my editor settings.

Other than this, I really love this feature; especially the csharp language preferences:).

It was not an interesting debate 30 years ago, and sure as heck is not today.

It is very likely that those earning more are senior programmers, who prefer spaces rather than tabs.

You can format almost any language almost any way you want using the tools available.

Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs.

Why not make something similar for line beginnings After git config --global core.indent 4s I dont have to care what you have in your EditorConfig file, or whats in the files on the remote.

My local clone will have correct indentation - as will yours, after you do git config --global core.indent 4t.

What a total waste of space - worse, its a waste of an entire LINE.

For those people who say I like to see which ending bracket corresponds to the opening bracket.

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