How to format an XML with closing nodes and tags on a new line?

I'm modifying some .vcrpoj files in .NET but when I save them the formatting changes (which wrecks havoc with my diff tool), the original files look like this:

<VisualStudioProject
ProjectType="Visual C++"
Version="8.00"
>
<Platforms>
    <Platform
        Name="Win32"
    />
</Platforms>
<ToolFiles>
</ToolFiles>

But when I save the changes it looks like this:

<VisualStudioProject
ProjectType="Visual C++"
Version="8.00">
<Platforms>
    <Platform
        Name="Win32" />
</Platforms>
<ToolFiles></ToolFiles>

I'm using the following XmlWritterSettings

XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Indent = true;
settings.IndentChars = ("\t");
settings.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8;
settings.NewLineOnAttributes = true;

Is there a way to define the settings in order to match the format visual studio uses? (I need NewLineOnAttributes otherwise it's even worse).

Solution

I don't think you can do it with the built-in XmlWriter implementation... you could inherit from XmlTextWriter, and override the appropriate method (not sure which one it is...) to write elements with the desired format

Here are a few XML-aware diff tools (that will compare the files based on semantics, ignoring the formatting) :

XML Diff and Patch Tool (free, MS sample project, exists as GUI and command line)
Altova DiffDog (commercial)
XML Diff and Merge Tool (free, pretty old but probably still working)
Beyond Compare (commercial) with the extra format "XML tidied with attributes sorted" (available on this page)

With those tools, you won't need to worry about the XML format you generate