ASP.NET IDE Behaviour

[TheGrumpyProgrammer]

I'm hoping this is a simple one. When I'm writing ASP.NET
aspx pages (html), saving changes causes the Visual Studio
IDE to rearrange the html statements. HOW DO YOU STOP
THIS?! It's driving me nuts. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]]

There are *some* options in Tools -> Options -> Text (or is it Code?)
Editors -> HTML.

VS.NET 2004 (Whidbey) has this really fixed.

-mike
MVP

 

[TheGrumpyProgrammer]

Thanks Mike. I'm going to poke around in those for a
while and do some testing of the results. Can't wait for
2004! Auto-completion is a great idea, and the popup
lists are fine, but these still leave the control in the
programmer's hands, and you can actually see it and know
it happened. To have the html changed by the IDE with no
indication that anything happened is a big problem. It
looks like Microsoft should change the default on that
function to "off". Ah, growing pains...

 

[TheGrumpyProgrammer]

Follow-up for anyone else who wants the html to look the
same as you left it...

Tools, Options, Text Editor, HTML/XML, Format, Apply
Automatic Formatting checkboxes.

Thanks again.

 

[Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]]

It'll still reformat your code sometimes, but hopefully not as often...
-mike
MVP