.editorconfig not working or respected by Visual Studio!

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[severity:It bothers me. A fix would be nice]
.editorconfig is not being respected by Visual Studio!!!

I have my line endings set for Line Feed (\n) and yet Visual Studio is not respecting it even after performing Code Formatting(Ctrl+K, Ctrl+E) or event after restarting Visual Studio!

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Original Comments

Tracy Wang [MSFT] on 11/16/2021, 07:19 PM:

Does this reproduce for all project or specific project? If it’s reproduce with the specific project, which project do you use(C# , C++ console, Web, UWP or others )? In order for us to investigate this further, could you please provide repro steps, a more detailed description of the faulty behavior and the actions you were taking when the issue appeared to help us better understand this scenario? What is the actual result and which result do you expect to happen?

Justine Ang on 11/17/2021, 06:54 AM:

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Feedback Bot on 11/17/2021, 06:03 PM:

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Jiahui Zhang (Beyondsoft Corporation) [MSFT] on 11/23/2021, 01:35 AM:

Thank you for your feedback! We tried to reproduce this issue in 17.0.1 with following steps:

1. Create a C# Class Library project.
2. Add a .editorconfig file to this project.
3. Update the content of .editorconfig to:

root = true

[*]
end_of_line = lf
4. Open Class1.cs and press “Ctrl + K, Ctrl + E”
The code formatting will change as the video below:

Is this issue same as yours? If not, can you help with following questions:

1. Are you installed any extensions and third party plugins? (Such as Resharper? Could you try to uninstall other extensions and third party plugins and then check whether this issue also reproduces or not?)
2. Would it be possible to provide us a sample solution?
3. Can you provide us a screenshot or a repro video using https://www.screentogif.com/ or a similar tool?
4. If we misunderstood your question, would you please help to correct us?

Please feel free to let us know if you have any doubt. We look forward to hearing from you

Justine Ang on 11/27/2021, 08:46 AM:

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Jiahui Zhang (Beyondsoft Corporation) [MSFT] on 11/29/2021, 01:31 AM:

Thank you for sharing us details of this issue! We are able to reproduce this issue and we found the .editorconfig will only work when adding new files. It does not change the line endings when formatting the code. We have reported a bug to our engineer and they will investigate this issue. We are currently prioritizing problems that are impacting a broad set of our customers, so we may not be able to investigate this one immediately. We know this problem is important to you, so we will continue to monitor it.

Thank you for helping us build a better Visual Studio!

Oleg Tkachenko [MSFT] on 11/29/2021, 07:24 AM:

Justine Ang, thanks for feedback. You need to configure Code Cleanup to format document, but default it doesn’t perform that action.

Justine Ang on 11/29/2021, 08:23 PM:

Oleg Tkachenko [MSFT], Format document was included on my fixers, right after Sort imports.

See attached image below:

Feedback Bot on 3/1/2022, 11:55 PM:

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Original Solutions

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[Youssef1313]

Possible a duplicate of #25162

[jmarolf]

Not a regression this has never been supported in code cleanup

[weitzhandler]

I often work on different projects where some of them are different than my VS settings (for example tabs vs. spaces).
VS doesn't respect .editorconfig files and doesn't override VS tabs settings if such exists in .editorconfig.

[ZackTechLtd]

I have a work solution with a .editconfig file that appears to be ignored by Visual Studio 2022 professional but seems be working with Rider. So I would really appreciate it if you would fix the issues relating to this config file.