Removing HTML Auto-ID-Population in Visual Studio .NET (2003)

I've searched the internet high and low for a solution to this problem.

My current occupation requires me to support the now legacy ASP 3.0 language.  Naturally... my IDE of choice/usage is Visual Studio .NET 2003... it really does a great job of almost everything.  The only major complaint I have is the auto-ID-population of many HTML elements (such as INPUT) when you do a copy and paste with these elements.  I'm sure most of you have seen this major annoyance.  I understand that every element SHOULD have a unique identifier, but I'd rather handle that on my own, not have VS.NET creating a text1, text2, text3 for me, when I just have to go back and change it.

How to reproduce:
just copy and paste this     <input type=text>     into visual studio.net 2003 on a page recognized by the IDE as an HTML page (You are going to have to use the PASTE AS HTML option).... and watch the auto ID creation begin.

I have seen posts from microsoft rep's saying they there is no way to disable this in the current versions.  But with an Visual Studio .NET 2003 API, anything is possible.

So does anyone have a solution, script, crack, or prayer to disable the VS.NET HTML Auto-ID-Population setting?

Published Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:01 PM by dotjosh
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# re: Removing HTML Auto-ID-Population in Visual Studio .NET (2003)

Looking forward to this one too. It's a big pain when you copy a huge file to another and it creates such auto IDs. I have the same problem on VS2002 and VS2003.

-- Alexandre

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:32 PM by Alexandre Rocco

# re: Removing HTML Auto-ID-Population in Visual Studio .NET (2003)

Can't be switched off, together with the auto-html formatting 'feature'... I haven't checked if whidbey still does this...

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:34 PM by Frans Bouma

# re: Removing HTML Auto-ID-Population in Visual Studio .NET (2003)

I hope it can be turned off in the future :)

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:46 PM by David Cumps

# re: Removing HTML Auto-ID-Population in Visual Studio .NET (2003)

Maybe doing a find/replace with a nice RegEx would do the trick. I will try to come up with one and give it a shot! :)

-- Alexandre

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:00 AM by Alexandre Rocco

# re: Removing HTML Auto-ID-Population in Visual Studio .NET (2003)

Been hunting around for a solution to it. Here's a fix!
BOOYA!

http://www.codeproject.com/macro/wiicwgp.asp

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 1:32 PM by Eric Carlisle

# re:Removing HTML Auto-ID-Population in Visual Studio .NET (2003)

^_^,Pretty Good!

Sunday, April 10, 2005 4:59 AM by TrackBack

# re: Removing HTML Auto-ID-Population in Visual Studio .NET (2003)

Look at this link for the solution:

ketan-technical-fruits.blogspot.com/.../disable-auto-ids-when-copying-aspnet.html

Monday, July 19, 2010 6:07 AM by fish

# re: Removing HTML Auto-ID-Population in Visual Studio .NET (2003)

I do not think I have read anything like this before.So good to find somebody with some original thoughts on.this subject. Thanks for starting this up.This blog is something that is needed on the web,someone with a little originality.

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