September 14^th 2005

AutoIndent breaks in Visual Studio 2005

So, coding away and the autoindent (and autocomplete) stopped working. In fact worse than that - all the autoformat and colouring went to pieces, and it started deleting the first character off switch statements.

Trawl of Google - and this was a difficult one to find - it turns out that .licx files with extra blank lines can cause this problem.

I'd un-installed some user controls I'd been evaluating, and had to delete their license information - never thought to delete the blank line as well.

Another oddity in the development environment. I'm presently of the opinion that .NET is great but rather immature...