Ola Lindberg

I wanted to add a 80 column guideline to Visual Studio Express. I searched the settings without luck. Instead I found Sara Ford’s blog explaining how to do that. In the comments Tobias explained how to do that in Visual Studio Express as well. I tried it in Visual Studio C# Express 2005 and 2008. Works fine. The following is just a compilation from Saras blog with comments, all in one place.

Close Visual Studio. Add a string value to the Windows registry called Guides with the value RGB(153,153,153) 79 for a gray (#999) guideline at column 80 to any of the following locations.

Visual Studio 2005: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\
VisualStudio\8.0\Text Editor

Visual Studio Express 2005: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\
VCExpress\8.0\Text Editor

Visual Studio Express 2008: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\
VCExpress\9.0\Text Editor

It would of course be nice to have the setting in Visual Studio but for now this is good enough!

The Planet SharpWired site is now online on our source forge project page!

Since sourceforge don’t allow outgoing connections on project web pages I have set up the planet elsewhere and uploads the files to sourceforge every hour using rsync. This means that there is a delay for maximum one hour before the page and news feeds are updated. It’s not perfect, but I think it’s good enough. For now at least.

Update: More information about the planet and the customized SharpWired PlanetPlanet skin/template can be found in the SharpWired Wiki.

Please report any problems or errors and have a nice weekend!