Adam Tybor’s Blog

Ever get yelled at for using tabs instead of spaces or spaces instead of tabs?  Here’s your cure it toggles the text editor settings in visual studio for you.

Public Sub ToggleTabsAndSpaces()
 Dim keys As String() = { _
  "Basic", _
  "C/C++", _
  "CSharp", _
  "CSS", _
  "HTML", _
  "PL/SQL", _
  "PlainText", _
  "T-SQL", _
  "XML"}

 Dim turnTabsOn As Boolean = True
 Dim msg = "Truning Tabs On"

 If DTE.Properties("TextEditor", keys(0)) _
   .Item("InsertTabs").Value = True Then
   turnTabsOn = False
   msg = "Turning Tabs Off"
 End If

 IdeHelper.StatusBar(msg)
 IdeHelper.Output(msg)

 With DTE.Properties("TextEditor", "AllLanguages")
   .Item("TabSize").Value = 2
   .Item("InsertTabs").Value = 2
 End With

 For Each key As String In keys
   DTE.Properties("TextEditor", key) _
   .Item("InsertTabs").Value = turnTabsOn
 Next
End Sub

I mapped mine to Ctrl+Shift+=

If you need to find out what the names of the different editors are you can look them up in the registry.

x64

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\AutomationProperties\TextEditor

x32

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\AutomationProperties\TextEditor