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How to turn off AutoFormatting of my XAML on save
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Lloyd Sheen
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I have now read about 50 posts about this and nothing they say is working.
Hey VS 2022 developers ---- why do you make the setting so devoid of easy methods to change them. I really don't know and should have to know the contents of these file as the settings dialogs should allow me to set them like I want. Any of those developers wish to answer????
Oh by the way I had to use the tag I used as there do not seem to be tags for VS
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Leon Lu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 74,081 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor2022-07-01T02:43:27.037+00:00 Please open the Options dialog box, click the Tools menu and then click Options. To access the Formatting property page, expand the Text Editor > XAML > Formatting node. Unselect Following selection. You can refer to following link as well. If you want to add VS related tag about VS settings, please add
VS-generaland remove xamarin related tags, I add vs-general tag.Completion of an end tag or simple tag.Completion of a start tag.Pasting from the clipboard. -
Lloyd Sheen 1,476 Reputation points
2022-07-01T11:48:56.373+00:00 Thanks for the reply. The problem is not formatting while typing. The problem is that when I save the XAML file it gets reformatted.
I need a method of stopping the reformatting on save.
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PengGe-MSFT 3,351 Reputation points2022-07-04T08:38:15.323+00:00 Hi @Lloyd Sheen
I create a WPF app and make changes to the XAML, use ctrl+s to save file, and it will not automatically format. Could you share a screen recording? You can try to uncheck Tools->Options->Text Editor->Code Cleanup->Run Code Cleanup profile on Save. -
PengGe-MSFT 3,351 Reputation points
2022-07-27T04:49:28.753+00:00 Hi, may I know if you have got any chance to check my reply? Please feel free to share more detailed information to us and it will be very helpful for us to better work out this issue.
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Lloyd Sheen 1,476 Reputation points
2022-10-04T14:29:57.61+00:00 Opened the Options dialog. There is no Tools Menu item so everything you wrote has no basis.
The link is a 404 (not found)
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Ha, SangWoo 10 Reputation points2023-02-15T04:00:07.9666667+00:00 -
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Erik Jan 10 Reputation points2023-03-24T09:17:53.35+00:00 Thanks a lot for that answer: it was right on the spot !
Alternately, you can also play with the different options so that it reformats the code as you prefer.
In my case it was not so much the reformatting on save that was bothering me but the fact it didn't do it like I wanted to!
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Lloyd Sheen 1,476 Reputation points
2022-07-04T11:36:16.783+00:00 Thanks but that is unchecked and has been for a long time. Seems like last update the VS 2022 has forgotten about this setting.
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PengGe-MSFT 3,351 Reputation points
2022-07-05T06:49:14.567+00:00 Hi @Lloyd Sheen
What is your version of Visual Studio? I can't reproduce this issue in Visual Studio 2022 Community 17.2.5.Do you have third-party extensions installed? Please try running /safemode in Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022 to start Visual Studio. This switch loads only the default environment, the default services, and the shipped versions of third-party packages.
If the issue still exists, could you share a sample program or screen recording?
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Lloyd Sheen 1,476 Reputation points
2022-10-04T14:33:18.08+00:00 The problem is now with 17.3.5 but has been here for a long time. The worst thing about this is I spent so much time trying to find out how it gets done and then when I saw I did not like the format it uses.
Now with at least 17.3.5 if I use the Edit/Advanced/Format Document nothing happens.
I now spend more time trying to figure out what VS has done to me than actually working on project.
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Lloyd Sheen 1,476 Reputation points
2022-10-05T14:09:07.447+00:00 Ok I have more info. When I am debugging I often don't manually save the files. I count on VS to save the files before building etc.
So when I save the file manually it reformats the XAML. When I just execute and VS does a "background" save it does not.
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