An option controlling the indentation of code #if blocks should be provided.

[tannergooding]

Currently #if blocks are always formatted to start at the beginning of the line:

public class ExampleClass
{
    public void ExampleMethod()
    {
#if DEBUG
#endif
    }
}

An option should be provided so that the #if block can be indented to the desired level (probably the same options as label has, which are left-most, indent one less, and indent normally):

public class ExampleClass
{
    public void ExampleMethod()
    {
#if DEBUG
        // Some code
#endif
    }
}

public class ExampleClass
{
    public void ExampleMethod()
    {
    #if DEBUG
        // Some code
    #endif
    }
}

public class ExampleClass
{
    public void ExampleMethod()
    {
        #if DEBUG
        // Some code
        #endif
    }
}

It would also be useful, in the last example, to be able to indent the contents one more level:

public class ExampleClass
{
    public void ExampleMethod()
    {
        #if DEBUG
            // Some code
        #endif
    }
}

[gordanr]

I agree. It would be useful.

[daniel-keen]

It's been a year already.. pls implement this feature :(

[CyrusNajmabadi]

@thexdd Would you be interested in contributing here? I can give you some pointers on how you could start!

[sharwell]

I'm adding this and #12305 to an upcoming design review to determine if this is a feature we want to start maintaining in the core formatting code.

[daniel-keen]

@CyrusNajmabadi I would love to participate in that, actually.

@sharwell Sounds great. Looking forward to hearing more information regarding this issue!

[sharwell]

The indentation behavior of #if has remained the same for many Visual Studio releases. During today's design review, the team generally felt that uniformity provided by this uniformity is an asset to the ecosystem, and we would not want to introduce a configuration item related to this outside of empirical evidence showing significant use of an alternative formatting.

@thexdd I know this isn't the news you wanted to hear. However, we would love to have you contribute to the project. We have a rather large selection of issues in our Small Fixes project, or you can look for issues labeled help wanted to see if something there catches your interest.