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Diego
Diego

Reputation: 5032

Prevent ID autogeneration on copy-paste in Visual Studio 2008 ASP.NET Web Form

If I have the following in an ASP.NET Web Form:

<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="tbxUser"/>

and I copy and paste that line in the same page, I usually get the following:

<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="TextBox1"/>

Obviously, nobody is going to name their controls in that way (if you don't want to name a textbox, simply don't asign an ID to it), and it's not nice having to change the ids of pasted controls. The same happens if I copy a control without an explicit ID, VS simply generates one for me.

Is there any way of preventing VS from autogenerating IDs when I copy-paste ASP.NET code?

Upvotes: 37

Views: 8275

Answers (5)

KZander
KZander

Reputation: 280

Funny how this post is 12 years old, and at that time there was actually a solution to fix it. Fast forward to the year 2022, and a function that great has been removed by Microsoft.

The only workaround I've found online on how to do this is basically to 'fool' the IDE into thinking that "we're not pasting code."

Meaning that the best solution so far is to:

  1. Comment out the code (ctrl+k, ctrl+c)
  2. Copying that and pasting it where you'd like it to be.
  3. Uncomment the pasted code (ctrl+k, ctrl+u)

Who removes a function that works? @Microsoft

Upvotes: 2

Remawi
Remawi

Reputation: 21

I have a workaround ... copy part of tag . for example:

and then add the close tag ">" manually.

Best Regards'

Upvotes: 0

TPG
TPG

Reputation: 3219

Visual Studio 2017 doesn't seems to have a way to turn this off. If anybody knows the way, kindly post for VS 2017. Thank you.

Upvotes: 3

Thierry_S
Thierry_S

Reputation: 1616

If you're on Visual Studio 2013, see this stackoverflow question:

Disable "Auto ID elements" in Visual Studio 2013

which basically points to a bug raised with Microsoft (disabling auto id has been removed from VS 2013):

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/806446/asp-net-web-forms-development-unable-to-disable-auto-id-generation-on-paste-using-new-version-of-visual-studio-2013

Upvotes: 3

wRAR
wRAR

Reputation: 25569

Options, Text Editor, HTML, Misc, Auto ID on Paste

By the way, the most similar article contains just the same question (answered, of course). Be more careful next time :)

Upvotes: 43

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