#$%$# So, Scoble has has asked before what they can do to get people to use .NET. First and foremost, get VS.NET to leave my gosh darned source code formatting alone. I really want to convert. But the fact that no matter how hard I try I still can’t get VS.NET and Web Matrix to leave my source code alone still infuriates me within the first 5 minutes of “.netting’”.
Case in point. This went into a new file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Redesign Layout Maneuvers</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
And a code view, html view, design view and a save later, this is what I have left:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<HTML lang="en">
<HEAD>
<title>Redesign Layout Maneuvers</title>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</HEAD>
<body>
</body>
</HTML>
Take note of what happened to my XML declaration. Nice. Are there hidden options somewhere to curb this behaviour? Probably. But I shouldn’t have to find them. Could I just not ever touch Design view? That’s not practical with code gen for objects, and other developers who know less and can’t just write the code.
Don’t even get me started on the non-compliant, or even not-even-remotely-close compliancy of the HTML this stuff pukes out.
No thank you. I’ll go back to mod_perl and a text editor (Textpad). Maybe when Longhorn and 2.0 .NET hits I’ll try again. :-/
Since Robert has linked to this post, I’ve toned it down a bit out of respect for his readers.