Is there a pretty printer / code formatter for C# (as part of build system)?
Is there a pretty printer / code formatter for C# (as part of build system)? Read as: "lives outside of Visual Studio". It seems like there are plenty of these kinds of things for Java, C++/C, Go -- so it seems more than reasonable that C# should also have some code formatter that lives outside of the IDE?
(I'd actually like to couple the formatter with something like StyleCop, and have devs run it as part of the process before a commit).
NOTE: Not syntax highlighting, as in code in a web page. Instead, a Code beautifier, or code pretty printer, which would take code and format it to a style/standard coding format... which StyleCop does a style check to see if the code meets the format.
Answer
The first that comes to mind is ReSharper. However, it's an add-in to VS which isn't what you were asking for. I'm not sure if you can set it up to auto-format on save.
From their website:
ReSharper can reformat an arbitrary selected block of code, all code in the current file, all files in a directory, or even in the entire project or solution, according to your Code Style preferences. ReSharper provides distinct formatting options for C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, CSS and XML code. Reformatting affects braces layout, blank lines, line wrapping and line breaks, spaces in various contexts, indentation, aligning multiple constructs, and a lot more options that you can fine-tune in the ReSharper Options dialog box.