Can I customize auto-formatting (like using UniversalIndentGUI) with Visual Studio?

Question

So, I'm trying to create my own code formatting since the way Visual Studio auto-formats doesn't work exactly how I want. I was able to get the exact code format I wanted using UniversalIndentGUI. However, I don't know how to (or if there's a way to) integrate my format with Visual Studio.

For now, I can copy a file from Visual Studio into UniversalIndentGUI and then select "Live Preview" and then copy it back into Visual Studio.

I feel like there's a better way to do this. Ideally, I'd be able to select "format" in Visual Studio and have it automatically format my code the way I want it to.

Is there any way I can do this? Is there at least a better way than copying my code into UniversalIndentGUI and then back into Visual Studio?

Answer 1

Visual Studio has some code formatting options, and a button to do it, but I don't know if there are plugins to control how that happens.

I do know that UniversalIndentGUI can produce a script to format all files in a directory (with a given extension), and Visual Studio can notice modified files and reload. Creating your formatting rules, exporting a script, then occasionally running that (as a task in VS, through a plugin, or manually) will be a functional workaround.