Visual Studio 2008 formats asp tags to lowercase

Recently, my Visual Studio 2008(with Resharper 4.5) has started to reformat asp tags into lowercase.

Example:

<asp:Repeater runat="server" id="rp">

becomes

<asp:repeater runat="server" id="rp">

and I can’t find a way to make it not do this. I use Ctrl-k Ctrl-d to reformat.

I’ve tried resetting the Visual Studio settings, turning off Resharper. Nothing seems to bite.

I did delete a huge Reflected something folder in my Documents and Settings folder last week, could this be the reason?

Answers:

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Method 1

Go to Tools | Options…

Expand: Text Editor – HTML

Select the “Format” node, and see what settings you have for “Capitalization” of “Server tag” and “Server attributes – I think the default is now “Lowercase” – try setting that to “Assmebly definition” instead.

More information on these options can be found here:

Format, HTML, Text Editor, Options Dialog Box

Method 2

I had the same (or very similar) issue.

I also deleted some (but not all) files in the folder

C:Documents and Settings[username]Application DataMicrosoftVisualStudio9.0ReflectedSchemas

The reason I did this is because I’m subject to a frankly daft limit on the size of my (Windows XP) roaming profile 🙁

After I did this VS intellisense and document auto-formatting started behaving as if it didn’t know what the <asp: tags were and treated all the html as plain html (formatted tag names and attributes in lowercase).

I found this blog post by Tim Vasil which pointed me to the solution.

Here’s what I did to fix this:

1. Deleted all files in C:Documents
   and Settings[username]Application
   DataMicrosoftVisualStudio9.0ReflectedSchemas
2. Deleted all files in
   C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727Temporary
   ASP.NET Files
3. Deleted the .suo User Option file (the file has the same name as the solution file with .suo in place of .sln)

(Note: VS eventually regenerates the various files in it’s own time…)

Method 3

I found the cause. I put back that 650MB big folder in C:Documents and SettingsMy User IdApplication DataMicrosoftVisualStudio9.0 and everything seems to be back to normal.

Thanks for trying to help me!

Method 4

I’m not sure about a permanent fix, but what you can do is select the troublesome coding then hit CTRL+K followed by CTRL+F, so in order..

CTRL + K, F

This will auto format the coding (and make it the proper case).
If this doesn’t work then it might be an auto-format issue/setting

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