Show space, tab, CRLF characters in editor of Visual Studio

Where are the settings to show a space, tab, paragraph, CRLF, etc. (extended) characters?

Solution 1:

Edit > Advanced > View White Space. The keyboard shortcut is CTRL+R, CTRL+W. The command is called Edit.ViewWhiteSpace.

It works in all Visual Studio versions at least since Visual Studio 2010, the current one being Visual Studio 2019 (at time of writing). In Visual Studio 2013, you can also use CTRL+E, S or CTRL+E, CTRL+S.

By default, end of line markers are not visualized. This functionality is provided by the End of the Line extension.

Solution 2:

Edit -> Advanced -> View White Space or Ctrl+E,S

Solution 3:

Display white space characters

Menu: You can toggle the visibility of the white space characters from the menu: Edit > Advanced > View White Space.

Button: If you want to add the button to a toolbar, it is called Toggle Visual Space in the command category "Edit".
The actual command name is: Edit.ViewWhiteSpace.

Keyboard Shortcut: In Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019 the default keyboard shortcut still is CTRL+R, CTRL+W
Type one after the other.
All default shortcuts

End-of-line characters

Extension: There is a minimal extension adding the displaying of end-of-line characters (LF and CR) to the visual white space mode, as you would expect. Additionally it supplies buttons and short-cuts to modify all line-endings in a document, or a selection.
VisualStudio gallery: End of the Line

Note: Since Visual Studio 2017 there is no option in the File-menu called Advanced Save Options. Changing the encoding and line-endings for a file can be done using Save File As ... and clicking the down-arrow on the right side of the save-button. This shows the option Save with Encoding. You'll be asked permission to overwrite the current file.

Solution 4:

My problem was hitting CTRL+F and space

This marked all spaces brown. Spent 10 minutes to "turn it off" :P