Visual Studio VB pretty listing settings

Question

Does anyone know how to stop Visual Studio VB.NET editor from changing my beautiful scientific notation numbers into hideous decimal notation?

It seems that this is part of "Pretty Listing" (single checkbox in the options). I'd like to keep the other features of pretty listing, I just don't want to have to stare at 0.0000000000000001 when I could be looking at 1e-16

Answer 1

I don't think there's a way to do it. You could rely on the implicit CDbl() conversion in this situation:

Dim myPrettyNumber As Double = "1E-16"

Or if you just want to be able to read it more easily, add a comment:

Dim myUglyNumber As Double = 0.0000000000000001 ' 1E-16

Answer 2

You may turn pretty listing back on after defining your constants.

Visual Basic won't obfuscate numbers that have already been defined so long as you don't modify the lines that they're on. If you accidentally do modify a line being forced to scientific notation Visual basic will only convert that line to use fixed notation.

Obviously this works best for the declaration of constants or formula's that won't change very often. It is less viable otherwise.

Answer 3

There is an option in VB to turn off "pretty listing":

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/y0y5th94.aspx