How can I make Visual Studio wrap lines at 80 characters?

Question

Is there any way to make Visual Studio word-wrap at 80 characters? I'm using VS2008.

This post is loosely related.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Tools >> Options >> Text Editor >> All Languages >> General >> Select Word Wrap.

I dont know if you can select a specific number of columns?

Answer 3

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 .

Answer 4

You can also use

Ctrl+E, Ctrl+W

keyboard shortcut to toggle wrap lines on and off.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

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.

Answer 9

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 -> Customize
Click on the Commands tab
Select Edit|Advanced from the list
Find Toggle Word Wrap and drag it onto your bar

Answer 10

You can enable word wrap and set zoom of code for 207% and that will show wrap every line of code that is over 80 characters in length.