Sharp operator doesn't tab automatically in visual studio

Question

If I am writing some code in Visual Studio,

while(true)
{
    if (foo == bar)
       MessageBox.Show("ASDF");
}

And I want the code to only display the messagebox when the application is running in Debug mode, I would write #if DEBUG, #endif. But Visual studio doesn't automatically tab the # operator so it is written like this:

while(true)
{
    if (foo == bar)
#if DEBUG
    MessageBox.Show("ASDF");
#endif
}

Having to manually indent any lines that has # is annoying. How do I make visual studio to automatically tab # operators? I am using VS2010

The above example is an entirely hypothetical code that is absolutely good for nothing. Please focus on the indentation part.. it's purely an issue related to the IDE — TtT23, Sep 05 '12 at 05:07
I hope this is merely a result of coming up with a simplified example, but in the `!DEBUG` case, you have invalid code. — , Sep 05 '12 at 05:17

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '12 at 05:15

To my knowledge there is no built-in way to adjust this tabbing.

Note: please consider conditional attribute on methods instead as shown here

public class Trace 
{ 
  [Conditional("DEBUG")] 
  public static void Message(string traceMessage) 
  { 
    Console.WriteLine("[TRACE] - " + traceMessage); 
  } 
}

Sharp operator doesn't tab automatically in visual studio

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