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This is driving me round the bend. I'm a long time VB.NET forms developer, quite new to ASP.NET and completely new to MVC. I'm creating vbhtml pages that use the VB.NET Razor syntax, and I seem to be constantly fighting against the UI which is trying to indent my code incorrectly. Take the following example, based on the template page for a new Razor view:
@Code
Layout = Nothing
End Code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
@If True Then
@<ul>
@For x = 1 To 2
Next
</ul>
End If '<-- Randomly indented too far
</div>
</body>
</html>
In the above example, as soon as I hit return after Next, End If two lines below randomly jumps two tabs forward from where it should be. In other examples I've hit a circle where pushing one line to the correct place throws another line out of position and vice versa.
I'm so annoyed at this point I'd be happy to disable auto-indentation completely and just manage it myself, but I can't even find out how to do that! Following advice on another thread I disabled indentation for HTML pages but all that stops is indentation of HTML tags - the code blocks still slide around all over the place.
I thought an extension might be causing the problem but I disabled them all and restarted and the problem remains. Am I doing something fundamentally wrong? I find it hard to believe Microsoft would release something so poor so it seems more likely I'm just not using it right.
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The Razor syntax gives you all the power of ASP.NET, but is using a simplified syntax that's easier to learn if you're a beginner, and makes you more productive if you're an expert. Razor web pages can be described as HTML pages with two kinds of content: HTML content and Razor code.
The Razor syntax consists of Razor markup, C#, and HTML. Files containing Razor generally have a . cshtml file extension.
Razor Expression Encoding Razor provides expression encoding to avoid malicious code and security risks. In case, if user enters a malicious script as input, razor engine encode the script and render as HTML output.
@page makes the file into an MVC action, which means that it handles requests directly, without going through a controller. @page must be the first Razor directive on a page. @page affects the behavior of other Razor constructs. Razor Pages file names have a .
I found a solution (of a fashion) on another question (I really did search hard before posting this question and couldn't find anything): Why doesn't Visual Studio code formatting work properly for Razor markup?
Essentially the solution seems to be to ensure that your code uses spaces instead of tabs for the whitespace. Whilst increasing the overall size of the page because of increased whitespace, it does lessen the problem (whilst not eliminating it completely). On the linked thread, someone who appears to be connected with Microsoft has acknowledged it is indeed a bug related to the overlapping formatters for HTML and VB.NET which they hope to improve in a new release. I've dropped to 2 spaces per indent to lessen the bandwidth impact.
Thanks to the guys who contributed.
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