Disable "Auto ID elements" in Visual Studio 2013
configuration, visual-studio-2013
Solution
For now the best solution seems to be a workaround that was posted by a user on the Microsoft Connect website which is to paste the code as a comment.
Fool the IDE that we're not pasting code (thus he won't alter it). How ? Paste a comment ! How to do that in real life ? Here is how I do it (feel free to suggest other ways!):
1) Place cursor where I want to paste code 2) ctrl-k, ctrl-c (i.e. comment region. Since no region was selected, an empty comment is inserted and our cursor Inside of it) 3) ctrl-v (paste content that is believed to be a comment by the IDE) 4) ctrl-k, ctrl-u (i.e. un-commenting the current comment we're in!
Problem
In Tools > Options, I cannot find the setting to disable auto-renaming of elements which are pasted in HTML source view. It used to be: Tools > Options > Text Editor > HTML > Miscellaneous > Auto ID elements on paste in Source view. But that option is gone in Visual Studio 2013. How can I disable the auto-renaming?