Wow! We’ve recently moved to Visual Studio 2008 at work and I’ve been moving one of our larger products to resource files and multi-language support. In doing so, you have to look at the Design view (or Split View) in the IDE to be able to generate a local resource file.
Every time I go to Design View and generate the file, all my beautifully formatted markup is destroyed by Visual Studio. This has happened ever since I started using Visual Studios and I succumbed to the inevitability of formatting failure…
Until today…
Fed up with the formatting, after fruitless online searching, I found the answer myself very quickly and I’ve been kicking myself since.
- Head to the top menu and select
Tools - Choose
Options - Expand
Text Editor - Expand
HTML - Choose
Format - Uncheck
Wrap tags when exceeding ...
Easy! You might want to stay in that screen and fix any capitalization or auto insert close tag issues you may have.