Reformat source using CodeMaid

[shytikov]

CodeMaid is open source extension to Visual Studio, that helps keep source code formatting consistent and sane.

It would be very nice to have XTB files to checked with CodeMaid this will unify styling in all source files and will reformat them using same standards.

Why it's matters?

Mostly because ease of reading and understanding what source code does. All methods, fields and properties will be grouped, sorted alphabetically and surrounded with regions. Unused using will be automatically removed. Everyones' code will look in the same logical and structural manner, so it will be easy to dig through it, understand what's going on and how to fix it.

[rappen]

Is it possible to specify this per project/solution in VS?
If not, it will also affect all customers and projects for all XTB developers, which is hardly acceptable...
Can we "trust" CodeMaid for the future?
Can CodeMaid co-esist with Resharper and other plugins, as they have overlapping functionality?

[shytikov]

CodeMaid do not run automatically, you need to explicitly ask for reformatting of file or group of files.

CodeMaid looks like more stripped version of ReSharper. Not as much powerful, but not as much big and slow. It's free, so anyone can get a copy. It integrates seamlessly to Visual Studio, so its presence is not noticeable. No changes in existing key shortcuts or colorful menus everywhere.

CodeMaid is quite easy to resources, it does not monitor your code all the time as ReSharper does, so you will not notice any difference in performance.

I'm not using ReSharper so I don't know how they co-exist. But there is no mess with other plugins.

CodeMaid is Open Source... So it gets more credit for that from me personally 👍

[MscrmTools]

I'm using it now along with Resharper without any problem.
We sure can do this as it does not change anything in code behavior