Turn off auto formatting in Visual Studio

I had this problem while writing VB in an aspx page.

The solution was to go to 'Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic > VB Specific' and turn 'Pretty Listing' OFF.

Note - in Visual Studio 2015 this can be found at:

Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic > Advanced

Disable pretty listing. It is the option that re-formats what you are doing. I had the same discomfort with it and after doing it, my code stays how i want and it doesn't go back to previous settings.

As suggest by @TheMatrixRecoder took a bit of finding for me so maybe this will help someone else.

Unitick these options to prevent annoying automated formatting when you places a semicolon or hit return at the end of a line.

You might have had Power Tool installed.

In this case you can turn it off from 'Tools > Options > Productivity Power Tools > PowerCommands > General'

In my case, it was ReSharper.

Test if ReSharper

StackOverflow: How can I disable ReSharper in Visual Studio and enable it again?

Prevent ReSharper from reformatting code

StackOverflow: Is there a way to mark up code to tell ReSharper not to format it?

Update 2017-03-01

It was ReSharper in the end:

Update 2020-12-18

On the latest version of ReSharper, there are more options: untick everything on this page, and ensure all dropdowns are set to the equivalent of None.

ReSharper "typing assist" is like a 3-year-old trying to "help" build a card castle. A simple backspace or an enter key will (poorly) reformat entire blocks of code, requiring it to be undone or painfully formatted back to the original.

And if that is not enough, this is the bit that adds delays when typing so sometimes it feels like trying to run in skis.