My Visual Studio 2008 Preferences

This is almost purely for my own benefit.

  • Tools > Options (showing all settings)
    • Environment > General
      •  Animate environment tools (unchecked)
    • Environment > Startup
      • At startup: Show empty environment
      • Download content every: (unchecked)
    • Projects and Solutions > Build and Run
      • Before building: Prompt to save all changes
    • Text Editor > All Languages
      •  Display: Line numbers (checked)
    • Text Editor > All Languages > Tabs
      • Indenting: Smart
      • Tab:
        • Tab size: 4
        • Indent size: 4
        • Keep tabs
    • Text Editor > C# > New Lines
      • New line options for braces (uncheck all)
      • New line options for keywords (uncheck all)
    • Text Editor > CSS > Format
      • Style: Semi-expanded
    • Text Editor > HTML
      • Format
        • Insert attribute value quotes when typing (unchecked)
      • Miscellaneous
        • Auto ID elements on paste in Source view (unchecked)

All other settings are left to default.