Mar
6
2010

Visual Studio 2008 Toggle Visible Whitespace

While coding the other day I was getting a little sloppy on the keyboard today with some serious butter fingers while working in Visual Studio.

After a slip of the fingers my code view looked like this;

VS_WhiteSpaces

At first my first thought was COOL! Kind of like the view formatting button in Word…

Then, as I began to dig through the VS Text Editor settings attempting to find out just what the heck I did. I quickly became a little disgruntled with this obligatory detour as the stumped period duration began to rack up…

Whitespace is typically not something I care about when coding in Visual Studio, but this will come in handy when opening those whacky PHP files, or other formats…

So how did I do it?

After a few search engine queries, Ctrl E + S is the shortcut I slipped on which toggle this view.

Additionally, this can be found in the Edit Menu under Advanced here;

text_advanced_setting

Maybe this will come in handy for someone out there, if just to toggle it back at least.

~Enjoy!

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