Identifying white spaces with Indent Guides
In Chapter 11, Working with Extensions in Visual Studio, we reviewed some extensions in VS, including Color Preview. With these extensions, we learned how the text editor in VS can be extended to improve our experience and provide more tools for some technologies and scenarios. Indent Guides, created by the user Steve Dower [MSFT], is another example of this type of extension that extends the text editor in VS.
Indent Guides is a simple but useful extension that helps us identify extra white spaces and indentations in the structure of code.
To install Indent Guides, go to Extensions | Manage Extensions and type Indent Guides
in the search bar. Then, install the Indent Guides for VS 2022 extension, following the steps from Chapter 11, Working with Extensions in Visual Studio.
Once you have VS running again and the installation is completed, you can open any file of any programming language supported by VS 2022 and see new guides that...