Stop VS.Net from reformatting my aspx pages

Abhishek Srivastava

Hello All,

I am developing a page which has a complex layout. This layout cannot be
made using VS alone, so I have to go into the html view and edit the
html myself.

The problem is that everytime I save the file, (or add/remove any
component to the page) VS.Net reformats and re-edits the whole page.

I find this very irrating because VS.Net totally disorganizes my code.
It removes all the quotes so align='center' becomes align=center

<td>
Hello
<td>

becomes
<td>
Hello</td>

I capitalizes / decapitalizes strings arbitrarily.

sometimes it also adds some extra </tr> to my code making my layout go
haywire.

I want to know if there is someway I can tell it to stop reformatting
and re-editing my code.

regards,
Abhishek.

Nov 18 '05 #1

Jim Cheshire [MSFT]

HI Abhishek,

Have you tried changing the options in Visual Studio .NET so that it
doesn't reformat code? If you've already done that and the problem
remains, I'm afraid that's all that you can do. The story here is not a
very good one. We are dependent upon MSHTML, the HTML rendering engine we
use in VS.NET. Unfortunately, MSHTML sometimes doesn't do a good job of
preserving your code formatting exactly the way you're formatted it.

The good news is that we've worked extremely hard to address this in
Whidbey, the next version of Visual Studio .NET.

Jim Cheshire, MCSE, MCSD [MSFT]
ASP.NET
Developer Support
ja******@online.microsoft.com

This post is provided as-is with no warranties and confers no rights.
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Hello All,

I am developing a page which has a complex layout. This layout cannot be
made using VS alone, so I have to go into the html view and edit the
html myself.

The problem is that everytime I save the file, (or add/remove any
component to the page) VS.Net reformats and re-edits the whole page.

I find this very irrating because VS.Net totally disorganizes my code.
It removes all the quotes so align='center' becomes align=center

<td>
Hello
<td>

becomes
<td>
Hello</td>

I capitalizes / decapitalizes strings arbitrarily.

sometimes it also adds some extra </tr> to my code making my layout go
haywire.

I want to know if there is someway I can tell it to stop reformatting
and re-editing my code.

regards,
Abhishek.

Nov 18 '05 #2

Michael Ramey

I think its funny, I posted a question similar to this about two months ago
and never got a response. You would think this YES un-turn-off-able
"feature" would cause a pretty big outroar, but very few people mention it.
I think it's all a conspiracy, Microsoft wants to standardize HTML output,
and our monitors aren't compatible with the mind probe they are using to
control everyone else's brain to just accept the badly formatted tags. No
wait, I've been watching too much TV, actually I heard once there should be
an option to turn this off in the next release. I know that doesn't provide
too much comfort to you now, you can do what I had to do... live with it.

"Abhishek Srivastava" <ab*****************@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hello All,

I am developing a page which has a complex layout. This layout cannot be
made using VS alone, so I have to go into the html view and edit the
html myself.

The problem is that everytime I save the file, (or add/remove any
component to the page) VS.Net reformats and re-edits the whole page.

I find this very irrating because VS.Net totally disorganizes my code.
It removes all the quotes so align='center' becomes align=center

<td>
Hello
<td>

becomes
<td>
Hello</td>

I capitalizes / decapitalizes strings arbitrarily.

sometimes it also adds some extra </tr> to my code making my layout go
haywire.

I want to know if there is someway I can tell it to stop reformatting
and re-editing my code.

regards,
Abhishek.

Nov 18 '05 #3

Ed Kaim [MSFT]

I think ASP.NET Web Matrix supports custom markup layout today (won't "fix"
personal styles). Info at
http://asp.net/webmatrix/default.asp...dex=4&tabId=46.

"Michael Ramey" <raterus@localhost> wrote in message
news:OA**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

I think its funny, I posted a question similar to this about two months ago and never got a response. You would think this YES un-turn-off-able
"feature" would cause a pretty big outroar, but very few people mention it. I think it's all a conspiracy, Microsoft wants to standardize HTML output,
and our monitors aren't compatible with the mind probe they are using to
control everyone else's brain to just accept the badly formatted tags. No
wait, I've been watching too much TV, actually I heard once there should be an option to turn this off in the next release. I know that doesn't provide too much comfort to you now, you can do what I had to do... live with it.

"Abhishek Srivastava" <ab*****************@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hello All,

I am developing a page which has a complex layout. This layout cannot be
made using VS alone, so I have to go into the html view and edit the
html myself.

The problem is that everytime I save the file, (or add/remove any
component to the page) VS.Net reformats and re-edits the whole page.

I find this very irrating because VS.Net totally disorganizes my code.
It removes all the quotes so align='center' becomes align=center

<td>
Hello
<td>

becomes
<td>
Hello</td>

I capitalizes / decapitalizes strings arbitrarily.

sometimes it also adds some extra </tr> to my code making my layout go
haywire.

I want to know if there is someway I can tell it to stop reformatting
and re-editing my code.

regards,
Abhishek.

Nov 18 '05 #4

Abhishek Srivastava

I beautify my code. do proper indentation, close all tags. put every
attribute in quotes. And then savee the file.

And VS.Net goes and sh*ts all over it. Indentation is totally horrible,
All my <br/> become <br> align='center' becomes align=center. I hate its
html editor. (but for complex pages there is no other way but to go in
html mode and edit.)

I want to keep my html as well formed as possible. But VS.Net does
totally the opposite. Which is wierd because VS.Net boasts of XML
compatibility everywhere ... yet it will remove closed tags from my code??

I think this is a bug. Atleast programmers should be given a choice
whether they want to keep all tags closed (except some lage html things
like <input type'checkbox' selected>) and all attributes in quotes.

regards,
Abhishek.

Ed Kaim [MSFT] wrote:

I think ASP.NET Web Matrix supports custom markup layout today (won't "fix"
personal styles). Info at
http://asp.net/webmatrix/default.asp...dex=4&tabId=46.

"Michael Ramey" <raterus@localhost> wrote in message
news:OA**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

I think its funny, I posted a question similar to this about two months

ago

and never got a response. You would think this YES un-turn-off-able
"feature" would cause a pretty big outroar, but very few people mention

it.

I think it's all a conspiracy, Microsoft wants to standardize HTML output,
and our monitors aren't compatible with the mind probe they are using to
control everyone else's brain to just accept the badly formatted tags. No
wait, I've been watching too much TV, actually I heard once there should

be

an option to turn this off in the next release. I know that doesn't

provide

too much comfort to you now, you can do what I had to do... live with it.

"Abhishek Srivastava" <ab*****************@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl.. .

Hello All,

I am developing a page which has a complex layout. This layout cannot be
made using VS alone, so I have to go into the html view and edit the
html myself.

The problem is that everytime I save the file, (or add/remove any
component to the page) VS.Net reformats and re-edits the whole page.

I find this very irrating because VS.Net totally disorganizes my code.
It removes all the quotes so align='center' becomes align=center

<td>
Hello
<td>

becomes
<td>
Hello</td>

I capitalizes / decapitalizes strings arbitrarily.

sometimes it also adds some extra </tr> to my code making my layout go
haywire.

I want to know if there is someway I can tell it to stop reformatting
and re-editing my code.

regards,
Abhishek.

Nov 18 '05 #5

Abhishek Srivastava

> The good news is that we've worked extremely hard to address this in

Whidbey, the next version of Visual Studio .NET.
That's really good news. When is the new edition coming out?

regards,
Abhishek.
Jim Cheshire [MSFT] wrote:
HI Abhishek,

Have you tried changing the options in Visual Studio .NET so that it
doesn't reformat code? If you've already done that and the problem
remains, I'm afraid that's all that you can do. The story here is not a
very good one. We are dependent upon MSHTML, the HTML rendering engine we
use in VS.NET. Unfortunately, MSHTML sometimes doesn't do a good job of
preserving your code formatting exactly the way you're formatted it.

The good news is that we've worked extremely hard to address this in
Whidbey, the next version of Visual Studio .NET.

Jim Cheshire, MCSE, MCSD [MSFT]
ASP.NET
Developer Support
ja******@online.microsoft.com

This post is provided as-is with no warranties and confers no rights.
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Hello All,

I am developing a page which has a complex layout. This layout cannot be
made using VS alone, so I have to go into the html view and edit the
html myself.

The problem is that everytime I save the file, (or add/remove any
component to the page) VS.Net reformats and re-edits the whole page.

I find this very irrating because VS.Net totally disorganizes my code.
It removes all the quotes so align='center' becomes align=center

<td>
Hello
<td>

becomes
<td>
Hello</td>

I capitalizes / decapitalizes strings arbitrarily.

sometimes it also adds some extra </tr> to my code making my layout go
haywire.

I want to know if there is someway I can tell it to stop reformatting
and re-editing my code.

regards,
Abhishek.

Nov 18 '05 #6

Jim Cheshire [MSFT]

Abhishek,

There is no hard date yet.

Jim Cheshire, MCSE, MCSD [MSFT]
ASP.NET
Developer Support
ja******@online.microsoft.com

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The good news is that we've worked extremely hard to address this in
Whidbey, the next version of Visual Studio .NET.

That's really good news. When is the new edition coming out?

regards,
Abhishek.
Jim Cheshire [MSFT] wrote:

HI Abhishek,

Have you tried changing the options in Visual Studio .NET so that it
doesn't reformat code? If you've already done that and the problem
remains, I'm afraid that's all that you can do. The story here is not a
very good one. We are dependent upon MSHTML, the HTML rendering engine we use in VS.NET. Unfortunately, MSHTML sometimes doesn't do a good job of
preserving your code formatting exactly the way you're formatted it.

The good news is that we've worked extremely hard to address this in
Whidbey, the next version of Visual Studio .NET.

Jim Cheshire, MCSE, MCSD [MSFT]
ASP.NET
Developer Support
ja******@online.microsoft.com

This post is provided as-is with no warranties and confers no rights.
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Hello All,

I am developing a page which has a complex layout. This layout cannot be
made using VS alone, so I have to go into the html view and edit the
html myself.

The problem is that everytime I save the file, (or add/remove any
component to the page) VS.Net reformats and re-edits the whole page.

I find this very irrating because VS.Net totally disorganizes my code.
It removes all the quotes so align='center' becomes align=center

<td>
Hello
<td>

becomes
<td>
Hello</td>

I capitalizes / decapitalizes strings arbitrarily.

sometimes it also adds some extra </tr> to my code making my layout go
haywire.

I want to know if there is someway I can tell it to stop reformatting
and re-editing my code.

regards,
Abhishek.

Nov 18 '05 #7