Menu > Tools > Options
Text Editor > C#
- General > Automatic brace completion = Off
- Tabs > Keep tabs
- Advanced > Insert * at the start of new lines when writing /* */ comments = Off
- Code Style > Formatting > Indentation > General > Automatically format on paste = Off
(disables really annoying effects of auto formatting on blocks below what you paste in) - Code Style > Formatting > Indentation > Indent case labels = Off
Turn off “# references” being auto displayed above everything by VS
- Tools > Options > Text Editor > All Languages > CodeLens > Turn off CodeLens completely
Text Editor > C/C++ (we do these too for when we use VS to edit C files)
- Code Style > Formatting > Spacing > Pointer/reference alignment = Leave unchanged
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