cbdurietz / EditorConfigLab

Simple project to test the .editorconfig capabilities.

EditorConfigLab

Simple project to test the .editorconfig capabilities.

Usage

It seems as if some attributes in the .editorconfig does not work as intended but is reset when opening the Visual Studio Viewer.

The following attributes is affected:

• Place open brace on new line for types
• Place open brace on new line for methods and local functions
• Place open brace on new line for properties, indexers, and events
• Place open brace on new line for property, indexer, and event accessors
• Place open brace on new line for anonymous methods
• Place open brace on new line for control blocks
• Place open brace on new line for anonymous types
• Place open brace on new line for object, collection, array, and with initializers
• Place open brace on new line for lambda expression

Testing

1. Clone and open this project.
2. Open the .editorconfig separately in a stand alone editor, preferably VS Code (since it updates the files dynamically).
3. In the file, find csharp_new_line_before_open_brace and not its value. It's probably all or none. Id none, set it to all.
4. In Visual Studio, open the .editorconfig file in the viewer.
5. Find the list of attributes mentioned above under the Whitespeace tab. It is under the New line preferences section. If you have set csharp_new_line_before_open_brace to all, they should all be ticked.
6. Untick one of them. Save the file.
7. In the text editor, notice how the csharp_new_line_before_open_brace have changed from allto none.
8. In Visual Studio, close, then reopen the .editorconfig. All the attributes have been unticked.

Note

The csharp_new_line_before_open_brace should be able to handle the following values:

• all
• none

Or, in a comma-separated list:

• accessors
• anonymous_methods
• anonymous_types
• control_blocks
• events
• indexers
• lambdas
• local_functions
• methods
• object_collection_array_initializers
• properties
• types

The latter don't seem to be supported by Visual Studio. At least not for me. If I create a comma-separated list as per the definition, Visual Studio can read it. But if I remove one of the tick boxes, it doesn't simply remove the specific item from the list, but set the whole attribute to none.

For more info on how it is supposed to work: C# formatting options