Visual Studio Ctrl K + D (code formatting) not working

Question

Ctrl K + D in a Visual Studio 2010 Sharepoint project is not working in some files as they contain paths to some resources (masterpageurl/images/js/css classnames) that get generated at runtime.

How do I make VS to "ignore" checking if these resources exist or not?

Heater

Check here by Oddmar Dam - it helped me: #30521264 – Lixivium

Answer 1

Code formatting doesn't work in multi-line arrays :

        int[] ok={ 1   ,   2, 3   };
        int[] ko={
                      1   ,
                         2,
                      3    
                 };

use Ctrl K + D

        int[] ok = { 1, 2, 3 }; // nice formatting
        int[] ko ={
                      1   ,
                         2,
                      3    
                 }; // nothing changed :(

Elwandaelwee

Answer 2

Check for other errors in the same file. If there are errors, it will not format the document until they are fixed. In order to help you during design time, you can create dummy resources, point to those, then change the references at runtime to the dynamically generated content.

Lectionary

There are no errors. I get three warnings when I compile the solution though - Validation (CSS 2.1): 'border-radius' is not a known CSS property name. and that is a CSS file, not the file I'm currently working on. – Heater

The very first line of this file has something like this -- ...MasterPageFile="~masterurl/default.master"%>. Not sure if I can create dummy reference for that. – Heater

Yes -- only three warnings mentioned above. – Heater

you dynamically create your master page? – Lectionary

Answer 3

Well mine was Shift+Alt+F and I was also upset

Here how to change it

Update your Keyboard shortcuts to reflect this. Currently it is assigned to "Move last selection to next find match", but you can easily assign it for formatting code.

File > Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts (or CTRL + K, CTRL, + S Search for "Format Document", or "editor.action.formatDocument" and re assign the keyboard shortcut to CTRL + K, CTRL + D

Pirtle

this is for vscode – Ph

Answer 4

You can choose from the following menus:

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> <Pick your language> 

or use

"All Languages" -> Tabs -> Indenting -> Smart

Also, my own preference is to change the tab section to "Insert Spaces". this way, when you open the visual studio files in a different editor, such as notepad, the formatting will be the same.

Beaston

Answer 5

CTRL-K-D will always format. I left out a semicolon and because of an error as specified in the above posts the formatting didn't work. Make sure that there are no errors and the formatting will always work. An easy way to spot an error is to look on the right hand sidebar for any red dots.

Penile