Red line at 80th column in VS

There is a hidden feature in Visual Studio. You can add a nice, red, vertical line to your editor.

vs_redline_at80
All you need to do is to create a .reg file with the following content:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/VisualStudio/9.0/Text Editor]
"Guides"="RGB(255,230,230), 80"

And add it to registry (double click). That’s it!

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One Response to “Red line at 80th column in VS”

  1. Blog » Blog Archive » Editor Guidelines in VS2010 Says:
    April 28th, 2014 at 07:29

    […] In VS2008 this could be done easily, it was just required to modify the registry. […]