Visual Studio 2003 HTML FORMATTING GONE WRONG
Jun 21st, 2005 by jbloom
A lot of the work that I had been doing on the web involved using .Net for all of my back end stuff, and various technologies for the front end. Flash and Winforms applications mostly.
Because of that I haven’t had to use Studios HTML designer very much untill recently. Man does this thing suck. Its constantly reformatting my HTML code and doing a very poor job of it. All of the info I have found about this shows that its a known issue for years and nothing has been done about it. There are promises that this is fixed in Whidbey but we’ll see.
Plus I’m working on stuff now!
After following all around the web I found an MSDN article on how to build a VS addin component that will run HTMLTidy on your aspx pages. This sounded like I might have found a solution right? Wrong. It wont even run if you have any asp: components on your page. What a waste of time.
Looks like its back to hand coding and trying to stay away from the design view.