Who else is sick of the false syntax errors in the VS2017 text editor?
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Brady Kelly wrote:
for things that - you think - are correct
FTFY ;P
Well, if I only think they're correct while they're not, why does the website work 100%?
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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I never moved from 2013 - not quite as stable as 2010 but close enough to get work done without random events loosing work or it just going into la-la land. I did try 2015 but it too had 'issues' and ms had way too soon stopped updating it in the rush to push out 2017. Seems they are now too involved adding 'features' to the languages to bother with the IDE. (and let's face it, all those 'brand new' features really do is save is perhaps an extra line or 3 something that cant already be done anyway - and for readability as often those actions probably should be done longhand anyway.) You realise soon it'll be 2018, ms' focus will move off vs2017 and into the already mentioned vs2019 - and just like 2015 (and even 2013 though at least it's safely usable) vs2017 will remain unfinished (no more updates). And yes, 2 years later 2019 too will become ignored and unfinished. I really wish ms would return to a 3+ year major release cycle, they've amply demonstrated they cant manage anything less.
Installing Signature... Do not switch off your computer.
Don't get me wrong. Except for this complaint, I absolutely love VS2017. I find it a much more comfortable IDE than VS2015. Then there is C#7, which as far as I know isn't handled by VS2013, and maybe not even VS2015.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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The only place I encounter that is the annoying XAML tendency to want rebuilds when items are added or namespaces changed. Of course I'm running Resharper, so that might be a factor.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli
I never code without ReSharper, so I doubt that's the differentiator.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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We're now on the _n_th update of VS2017, yet since the beginning, mine constantly litters my editor with red underlines and squigglies for things that are correct. The project builds and works, yet the bloody text editor thinks there are 20 errors in one screen of a Razor view .cshtml file. Does anyone else share my feelings on this? Or is this situation unique to my Visual Studio only. I doubt the latter because I have seen this logged for VS2017 a few times.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
Brady Kelly wrote:
Or is this situation unique to my Visual Studio only
Yes, it's you. VS uses the web.config file in the Views folder to determine what assemblies to load to verify your razor code. If you are getting squiggles in the editor it is likely that your Views\web.config file is not correct.
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Brady Kelly wrote:
Or is this situation unique to my Visual Studio only
Yes, it's you. VS uses the web.config file in the Views folder to determine what assemblies to load to verify your razor code. If you are getting squiggles in the editor it is likely that your Views\web.config file is not correct.
MVC Core doesn't have any of the two older web.configs, and I get this problem as soon as I create a new MVC web app project, without adding or changing anything.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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We're now on the _n_th update of VS2017, yet since the beginning, mine constantly litters my editor with red underlines and squigglies for things that are correct. The project builds and works, yet the bloody text editor thinks there are 20 errors in one screen of a Razor view .cshtml file. Does anyone else share my feelings on this? Or is this situation unique to my Visual Studio only. I doubt the latter because I have seen this logged for VS2017 a few times.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
I've never had that problem.
Brady Kelly wrote:
yet the bloody text editor thinks there are 20 errors in one screen of a Razor view .cshtml file.
Ah, yes, there I've noticed that. It's weird, if I let VS mull it over for a few minutes (literally, on this POC machine I have at work) the squiggles go away. I also read somewhere that deleting the PDB files or something, don't remember what, refreshes "stuff" so the editor works again, at least for a while. But then again, the whole idea of mixing server-side code inside an HTML file that is already polluted with Javascript that gets turned into "print" statements with embedded code that is then compiled and executed to generate the HTML, well, I know that was like the coolest thing since sliced bread when people started doing it, and certainly all those script-kiddie languages glommed onto the idea right away, but in actual practice, I find it a horrendous approach. I could elaborate, but I don't think it's necessary.
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We're now on the _n_th update of VS2017, yet since the beginning, mine constantly litters my editor with red underlines and squigglies for things that are correct. The project builds and works, yet the bloody text editor thinks there are 20 errors in one screen of a Razor view .cshtml file. Does anyone else share my feelings on this? Or is this situation unique to my Visual Studio only. I doubt the latter because I have seen this logged for VS2017 a few times.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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I've never had that problem.
Brady Kelly wrote:
yet the bloody text editor thinks there are 20 errors in one screen of a Razor view .cshtml file.
Ah, yes, there I've noticed that. It's weird, if I let VS mull it over for a few minutes (literally, on this POC machine I have at work) the squiggles go away. I also read somewhere that deleting the PDB files or something, don't remember what, refreshes "stuff" so the editor works again, at least for a while. But then again, the whole idea of mixing server-side code inside an HTML file that is already polluted with Javascript that gets turned into "print" statements with embedded code that is then compiled and executed to generate the HTML, well, I know that was like the coolest thing since sliced bread when people started doing it, and certainly all those script-kiddie languages glommed onto the idea right away, but in actual practice, I find it a horrendous approach. I could elaborate, but I don't think it's necessary.
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I don't mix real "server code" into my Razor pages, only that code that issues the "print statements" you mention.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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Brady Kelly wrote:
for things that - you think - are correct
FTFY ;P
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We're now on the _n_th update of VS2017, yet since the beginning, mine constantly litters my editor with red underlines and squigglies for things that are correct. The project builds and works, yet the bloody text editor thinks there are 20 errors in one screen of a Razor view .cshtml file. Does anyone else share my feelings on this? Or is this situation unique to my Visual Studio only. I doubt the latter because I have seen this logged for VS2017 a few times.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
FWIW, I see this every once in a while in purely C# code (WinForms project), so it's not unique to Razor. I might have legitimate errors, fix them, but the red squigglies don't go away. Sometimes restarting VS makes them go away, but at other times, they persist.
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We're now on the _n_th update of VS2017, yet since the beginning, mine constantly litters my editor with red underlines and squigglies for things that are correct. The project builds and works, yet the bloody text editor thinks there are 20 errors in one screen of a Razor view .cshtml file. Does anyone else share my feelings on this? Or is this situation unique to my Visual Studio only. I doubt the latter because I have seen this logged for VS2017 a few times.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
If you were getting this behavior on code, then I'd say your intellisense database is corrupt. Its been a problem in VS ever since they introduced it. I dunno.. maybe intellisense also builds a database for cshtml files too. You might try deleting the old database to force it to regenerate and see if that fixes the problem.
I live in Oregon, and I'm an engineer.
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MVC Core doesn't have any of the two older web.configs, and I get this problem as soon as I create a new MVC web app project, without adding or changing anything.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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Sounds like, broken by design. :rolleyes:
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
Why ever would MS do that? Do they want me to purchase a competing IDE?
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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We're now on the _n_th update of VS2017, yet since the beginning, mine constantly litters my editor with red underlines and squigglies for things that are correct. The project builds and works, yet the bloody text editor thinks there are 20 errors in one screen of a Razor view .cshtml file. Does anyone else share my feelings on this? Or is this situation unique to my Visual Studio only. I doubt the latter because I have seen this logged for VS2017 a few times.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
I've had that with WinForm recently, but only when changing branch in Git. It doesn't always happen, but sometimes everything would compile and run, but I would see errors in the error window. Stopping VS, removing the .suo file(s) and starting VS again would fix the issue.
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I've had that with WinForm recently, but only when changing branch in Git. It doesn't always happen, but sometimes everything would compile and run, but I would see errors in the error window. Stopping VS, removing the .suo file(s) and starting VS again would fix the issue.
I get no errors in the error window, just underlines and squigglies.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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If you were getting this behavior on code, then I'd say your intellisense database is corrupt. Its been a problem in VS ever since they introduced it. I dunno.. maybe intellisense also builds a database for cshtml files too. You might try deleting the old database to force it to regenerate and see if that fixes the problem.
I live in Oregon, and I'm an engineer.
Yes, this looks to be a likely cause, because my Intellisense is really sick, whatever I am working on. Could you please tell me how to delete that database?
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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We're now on the _n_th update of VS2017, yet since the beginning, mine constantly litters my editor with red underlines and squigglies for things that are correct. The project builds and works, yet the bloody text editor thinks there are 20 errors in one screen of a Razor view .cshtml file. Does anyone else share my feelings on this? Or is this situation unique to my Visual Studio only. I doubt the latter because I have seen this logged for VS2017 a few times.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
I've used most C# projects of VS2017 since release and I only encountered this once; when my IntelliSense database failed to synchronize with one of our automated backup solutions. So.. I'm guessing it's either a bug in the newer ASP projects or it depends on an external factor. Have you considered eliminating plugins, extensions and non-typical project settings? Have you properly debugged your own Visual Studio environment? A bug is a bug. Just fix it like the rest of 'em. :)
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We're now on the _n_th update of VS2017, yet since the beginning, mine constantly litters my editor with red underlines and squigglies for things that are correct. The project builds and works, yet the bloody text editor thinks there are 20 errors in one screen of a Razor view .cshtml file. Does anyone else share my feelings on this? Or is this situation unique to my Visual Studio only. I doubt the latter because I have seen this logged for VS2017 a few times.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
This happened to me about a year ago specifically for razor files. It turned out in my case that it was resharpers syntax highlighting that didn't support razor in mvc core projects yet. I disabled resharper for razor files (somewhere in resharper settings you can tell it to ignore .cshtml files) and all the crazy squiggles went away.
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I use VS 2017 every day and I cannot complain. Heck, Microsoft gave me this excellent IDE for free (At least the Community Edition.) Let's give MS some credit for that! :)
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I've never had that problem.
Brady Kelly wrote:
yet the bloody text editor thinks there are 20 errors in one screen of a Razor view .cshtml file.
Ah, yes, there I've noticed that. It's weird, if I let VS mull it over for a few minutes (literally, on this POC machine I have at work) the squiggles go away. I also read somewhere that deleting the PDB files or something, don't remember what, refreshes "stuff" so the editor works again, at least for a while. But then again, the whole idea of mixing server-side code inside an HTML file that is already polluted with Javascript that gets turned into "print" statements with embedded code that is then compiled and executed to generate the HTML, well, I know that was like the coolest thing since sliced bread when people started doing it, and certainly all those script-kiddie languages glommed onto the idea right away, but in actual practice, I find it a horrendous approach. I could elaborate, but I don't think it's necessary.
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I still use VS2015 and I never could wrap my head around MVC. To me it was just Classic ASP wrapped in a shiny new veneer. I'll stick with Standard ASP.NET if I ever have to write a web application again...
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