Resharper 6.0 tab instead of spaces

Question

How to force resharper 6.0 to use tab instead of spaces during code clearup ?

Answer 1

ReSharper uses VS settings, it doesn't have own settings for this task. Go to Tools->Options->Text Editor->Necessary lang or All Languages->Tabs and select "Insert spaces" or "Keep tabs".

Answer 2

This is a bug in ReSharper. It typically uses the VS settings, but when aligning it always uses spaces and ignores the VS settings (particularly the Smart Tabs).

A request for a fix to this has been around since version 4, but is still not fixed in verstion 6 (the most recent release).

The bug is noted here: RSRP-150306 and here: RSRP-200204

Update: One thing you can do to work around this issue, after doing the ReSharper cleanup, you can use the VS formatting call to have it fix the tabs/spaces. The default shortcut for this is

• Ctrl-K,Ctrl-D for the entire document
• Ctrl-K,Ctrl-F for just the selected text.