Tabs, Indents, Alignment

By default, ReSharper uses Visual Studio preferences for tabs and indents (Tools | Options | Text Editor | All Languages | Tabs and Tools | Options | Text Editor | [language] | Tabs). However, if you prefer to share formatter preferences with your team using ReSharper's layered settings, you can clear the Use indent style and size from Visual Studio checkbox , and then configure and save your indentation preferences to the team-shared setting layer.

If there are .editorconfig files that affect your solution, preferences on this page could be overridden by EditorConfig styles. You will see a yellow warning if at least one preference on the page is overridden by EditorConfig styles for the current file, each overridden preference will also be highlighted with yellow. For example:

If your preferences say that whitespaces should be used for indents, ReSharper will also use whitespaces to align multiple constructs — for example, when function parameters on multiple lines are aligned by the first parameter:

void foo(int firstParameter,
         int secondParameter)
{
}

However, when you choose to use tabs for indents, there could be different ways for aligning multi-line constructs. ReSharper lets you choose which of these ways to use when creating new and reformatting existing code.

You can configure preferences for aligning multi-line constructs with the How to align when tabs are used for indents option .

Use spaces (recommended, looks aligned on any tab size)

When this option is selected, ReSharper uses tabs for indents and spaces for alignment:

This is recommended option because code aligned with second and third options may lose alignment when viewed in an editor with a different tab size.

Only use tabs (inaccurate)

When this option is selected, ReSharper uses tabs for both indents and alignment, which may not result in precise alignment:

Mix tabs and spaces for optimal fill

When this option is selected, ReSharper uses tabs for both indents and alignment adds necessary spaces for precise alignment.