Visual studio 2019 - space or not space before the closing tag

2019-04-04

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_{Thursday, April 4, 2019 7:20 AM | 2 votes}

I use VS 2019 to upgrade a project from .NET 4.6.2 to .NET 4.8. Visual Studio 2019, in its ultimate wisdom, decided that it wants to use a slightly different xml format. While they are the same functionally, this type of behavior causes a lot of unnecessary changes my commits, and is a source of more unnecessary changes in the future.

Is there any way to force Visual Studio to use a consistent markup style?

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_{Friday, April 5, 2019 8:50 AM}

Hi ThuanNguy,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

Could you please share the detail steps or sample solution? I tried to add a new web.config file and it seems when try to add the property, the space not auto add before the close tag, except the default one as below:

Meanwhile, there seems have no such option to remove the space before the close tag, sorry for this inconvenience.

Best regards,

Sara

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_{Friday, April 5, 2019 9:14 AM | 1 vote}

You can reproduce by using the following steps:

1. Create a new .NET framework Web MVC project: check web.config

      <dependentAssembly>
        <assemblyIdentity name="Newtonsoft.Json" publicKeyToken="30ad4fe6b2a6aeed"/>
        <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-11.0.0.0" newVersion="11.0.0.0"/>
      </dependentAssembly>

2. Open Nuget and update json to the latest version:

      <dependentAssembly>
        <assemblyIdentity name="Newtonsoft.Json" publicKeyToken="30ad4fe6b2a6aeed" />
        <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-12.0.0.0" newVersion="12.0.0.0" />
      </dependentAssembly>

Notice the space. It seems either VS or Nuget randomly choose between the two styles.

_{Wednesday, April 10, 2019 9:38 AM}

Hi ThuanNguy,

Thank you for your detail information and sorry for the delay reply.

According to your description, I can also reproduced this issue in VS 2017. We can go to Help-Send Feedback-Report a problem to report it the VS Product Team for better support. If you want us to help submit it, please feel free to let us know.

Best regards,

Sara

_{Thursday, April 11, 2019 2:40 AM | 2 votes}

Hi Sara,

Thank you. I reported it at https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/527913/assembly-bindings-added-by-vsnuget-inconsistently.html

Best Regards,

NDT.

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