Visual Studio 2010 - K&R Coding Style Variant

I program with different languages and for a while now I have wanted to make the K&R variant coding style my default in Visual Studio.

So what do I mean by the K&R variant coding style, this coding style was named after co-authors of the book The C Programming Language (thank you Wikipedia!) Kernighan and Ritchie. The variant I like is based on Java - rather than taking up a new line I like the opening brace on the first line of the statement block.

K&R variant coding style example:

public class Class1 {
    public Class1() {

    }

    public string Method1() {
        return "Method1";
    }
}

Visual Studio default (Allman coding style):

public class Class1
{
    public Class1()
    {

    }

    public string Method1()
    {
        return "Method1";
    }
}

I was put off using the K&R variant coding style when using C# because the default in Visual Studio is the Allman coding style. However, after recently downloading the MVC 2.0 RTM source I noticed that the project uses the K&R variant coding style.

ChildActionOnlyAttribute snippet from the MVC 2.0 source code:

    [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Method, Inherited = true, AllowMultiple = false)]
    public class ChildActionCacheAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute {

    private const string _cacheKeyPrefix = "__MVC_ChildActionCache_Entry_";
    private static readonly object _typeId = new object();
    private readonly object _itemsCacheKey = new object();
    private string _key;

    public int Duration {
        get;
        set;
    }

    public string Key {
        get {
            return _key ?? String.Empty;
        }
        set {
            _key = value;
        }
    }
}

Knowing that a very popular C# project uses the K&R variant coding style I decided to change my default coding style in Visual Studio. Below is a basic screencast I created that shows you how to change the default coding style to the K&R variant in Visual Studio 2010. BTW the settings are in exactly the same place in Visual Studio 2008.

A quick Google search found that I'm not alone in my thinking http://scyanide.com/2010/02/xcode-the-starting-curly-brace/.