HTML AutoFormatting (with an actual question)

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From: Michael J. Mooney (mike_mooney_at__yahoo.com.NOSPAM)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:53:19 -0400

I have resigned myself that to the undeniable fact the VS.NET (2003) will
attempt to reformat my HTML tags, making my code almost completely
indecipherable, any time I switch to the Design tab.

Of course, this is ridiculous. However, since it quite simply cannot be
solved, my approach is to NEVER switch to the Design tab. If I do
accidentally, regardless of whether the file becomes marked with a "*"
indicating that it was changed, I immediately close the file, discarding all
changes. I believe, but have not proven, it VS.NET is sometimes saving it's
modifications to the file, because new HTML formatting still shows up now an
then.

I just did it again by accident, and it turned my file into 317 lines of
unreadable junk. It should take at least a half hour, probably more like an
hour and a half, to return the file back to a readable state. Whoever at MS
implemented the logic for this "feature" (which actively sabotages your
code), should be fired, plain and simple (IMHO). (I said I resigned myself
to it, I didn't say I wasn't still frustrated and confused by it).

However, my problem now is adding server controls. Usually, when a person
adds a server control to a Web Form, VS.NET automatically adds it
declaration to the .cs code-behind page, along with any declaration which is
necessary. However, this only happens when the Web Form is viewed in Design
view; if you add the control to the HTML view, it does not appear in the
code-behind page unless you switch to Design view.

So, my question is: Is there any shortcut key or macro in VS.NET which will
synchronize the local variable declarations in the code behind page with the
runat="server" (no, MS, not runat=server) controls declared in the HTML
page, without (of course) switching to Design view?

Thanks, 

-- 
Michael J. Mooney
MCP+SB, MCAD, MCSD

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