Visual Studio Tip of the day - Format Document
Time and again we write code and our brackets get out of visual sync, i.e. they no longer appear as a coherent set even though they may be.
In Visual Studio, there is a feature known as Format Document which will align the code systematically.
It can be invoked by the key combination of Ctrl K + Ctrl D
Suppose you code looks like
namespace LogFileCheck
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
TextReader sr = new StreamReader("mb20051116_05000600_BAYTRARPT03_k.msn.com_w3svc10000.log", Encoding.UTF8);
TextWriter writesr =
new StreamWriter("mb20051116_05000600_BAYTRARPT03_k.msn.com_w3svc10000_csResult.log",
false, Encoding.UTF8);
while (sr.Peek()
!= -1)
{
string line = sr.ReadLine();
if (Regex.IsMatch(line, "&di=78") && Regex.IsMatch(line, @"([^,]*,){19}66"))
writesr.WriteLine(line);}
sr.Close();
writesr.Close();
}
}
}
Press the magic keys Ctrl K + Ctrl D and voila, all your code looks pretty organized as under:
namespace LogFileCheck
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
TextReader sr = new StreamReader("mb20051116_05000600_BAYTRARPT03_k.msn.com_w3svc10000.log", Encoding.UTF8);
TextWriter writesr = new StreamWriter("mb20051116_05000600_BAYTRARPT03_k.msn.com_w3svc10000_csResult.log", false, Encoding.UTF8);
while (sr.Peek() != -1)
{
string line = sr.ReadLine();
if (Regex.IsMatch(line, "&di=78") && Regex.IsMatch(line, @"([^,]*,){19}66"))
writesr.WriteLine(line);
}
sr.Close();
writesr.Close();
}
}
}
Want to format only a small selected section of the dirty code? Select the area you want to format and press Ctrl K + Ctrl F.