Can't UNDO, REDO and change control's ID in Design View

Question

User492672566 posted

Hi all,

I just noticed that when the aspx page in Design View, I couldn't Undo, Redo and change the ID of the controls. It is weired as it was just fine in last week. Any advice would be appreacited, thanks.

 

Answer 1

User-1674932888 posted
This may be a stupid question, but are you debugging when you are trying to do this?

Answer 2

User492672566 posted

This may be a stupid question, but are you debugging when you are trying to do this?

 Of course not, everything is ok when the page in Source View. Even I have restarted VS2005 many times, but the problem still exist when the page in Design View, weired!

 

Answer 3

User-1363174918 posted
If you type in design view, does undo button become enabled?

Answer 4

User492672566 posted

If you type in design view, does undo button become enabled?

Nope, both Undo and Redo buttons are disabled. And I just noticed that, if I make a copy of both *.aspx, *.vb and rename it, the copied page has no such problem. How could this happen? [:O]

 

Answer 5

User2100935664 posted

This is a well known bug in VS2005, and has existed since before release. Maybe someday MS will fix it.

 http://forums.asp.net/thread/1384097.aspx

http://forums.asp.net/thread/1139188.aspx

 http://forums.asp.net/thread/1193304.aspx

It has something to do with the refactoring failing.

Here is a little history of the bug (it used to give an error message until they "fixed it" now it doesn't give a message, but the ID still won't change )

http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/3192.aspx

 and the bug in MS:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=101992

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