Where are these dots coming from? How to get rid of them?

Question

For the life of me, I don't know when and how these "dots" started showing up in my IDE. I'm not sure if it's Visual Studio OR Code Rush from DevExpress that is doing it.

If anyone knows how to make them go away, please help! =)

Answer 1

Those dots represent space characters. You will also see little arrows for tabs, and little hooked arrows for carriage returns.

Press CTRL + R + W to toggle the dots you're seeing.

BTW this is a standard Visual Studio feature. It has nothing to do with CodeRush or any other plugin.

EDIT As Martin points out, you could press CTRL + R, then CTRL + W. Personally I press CTRL then hold it down for the R & W keystrokes. It's less typing.