Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting

An anonymous reader writes "For years, Microsoft has allowed Visual Studio users to define arbitrary tab widths, often to the dismay of those viewing the resultant code in other editors. With VS 2010, it appears that they have taken the next step of forcing tab width to be the same as the indent size in code. Two-space tabs anyone?"

Comments

Why put tabs in code anyway?

[harryjohnston]

One of the first things I've always done when setting up Visual Studio on a new computer is to set the option to insert spaces instead of tab characters. I find tab characters, to put it bluntly, irritating and utterly unnecessary. (You can imagine my opinion on standard makefile syntax!)

So, for all those tab fans, what is it about tabs that you find useful?

How you win the FP

[symbolset]

If you're curious, here is how you win the first post thing. Getting in first is not enough. It's a grand start though, and I'm glad you've learned the trick. I'm looking forward to what you can do with it. /. is on its way down, but the things you learn here will be useful elsewhere too.

First, capture their attention by twisting a common meme or modern topic in the subject.

In the body, capture their attention again with a concept that challenges the common thread, and close the first paragraph with a short intellectual call. Don't use the subject line as the introductory sentence as some people really hate that and will mod you down for it no matter how good your post is.

Once you have their attention you can push your meme without let as long as you are carefully correct or obviously intentionally incorrect to push the humor. Don't switch from humor to serious or vice versa - it doesn't work. If you have advanced trolling skills you can leave an opening here for correction so that you can amplify your message amongst the replies - but be right because these folks will school you. This is not the CNet crowd. Limit yourself to three or four paragraphs, or the Wall-O-Text haters will mod you down (I'm well over their limit here but I don't care because I have near perfect Karma. I can afford to school you).

Nowhere in your post vary from the thread topic. You can do that deep in the thread but you can't get away with it in a first post.

Close with an action item, because if you've entertained them they want to reward you with forward action. The "I Am Foredecker" tagline is awesome but it's not an action item. Jive?

Oh, and you have about 180 seconds to get all that done if you're good, or 12 if you're not. It helps to have some copypasta handy, but if you can't tailor it in time it's just wasted because they'll tear you up.

You're doing fine - keep it up.