Having returned to WPF, and downloading/installing Dev Express trial, I’m getting this message each time I start editing the XAML. If left uncorrected, the project enters break mode on running - even with an “empty project”
Any ideas - is it Dev Express? I remember some issues with an earlier release of Oxygene.
Thanks.
I don’t recall EVER seeing this message. Can you show me some of your XAML?
What version of Elements? VS? Developer Express?
Hi Alan. Thanks for reply. This has started recently, so may relate to installing Dev Express – I just downloaded and installed their trial.
Steps to replicate:
Start new WPF project in VS2015
Click on any text in Windows1.xaml as if to start editing
Message is then displayed. I usually click on Tabify, and all is well. A new file created (e.g. by adding a new window) shows the same problem
Details of environment:
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Regards
Bob Russell
Does this look similar/familiar.
Hi Alan. Brilliant. Well spotted. It was Productivity Tools. Looks ok after switching off that setting.
Many thanks.
Bob
That said, we should still figure out whats creating the badly tabbed code. Is the file mixed already when you create it? does the designer added wring spaces or tabs when you add controls? or does manual editing of the XAML cause this?
Ideally, we should find the root cause, as mixed tab/spaces is one of my pet peeves (which is why Fire/Water will always for to fully have one or the other, preserving what best matched the original (ie a spaced C#/Swift/Java/Xaml file will keep spaces [and a subtle “(spaces)” hint and menu items to let you fix it], but a mixed file would be cleaned to all tabs on save. And Oxygene files will always use spaces because, Ugh! ;).
Fire/Water also always keeps clean line endings and EOFs 
Unfortunately, VS is it’s own worst enemy and doesn’t let us handle all this stuff as nicely :(. In fact, it can’t even remember Tabs vs Spaces settings for C# for longer than 3 days, most times :(.
Hi Marc. To provide you with more information, I decided to switch the Productivity Power Tools setting “Fix Mixed Tabs” back on. However, when I did that, then created a new blank WPF project, the “You have mixed Tabs and Spaces…” message did NOT re-appear. Strange. I’ll keep an eye on it, investigate if it re-appears, then let you know the circumstances.
I looked at the source files with Notepad++ and saw that the *.pas file lines ended in CR|LF and the *.XAML file lines ended in LF. Is that as expected?
Bob
Thanx!
Expected enough, at least yes. VS doesn’t;'t keep these consistent. But as long as they are all the same within the file, they should be good. I’ll see what we can do in terms of pre-processiong the templates, on our side, to make sure they end cup more consistently in VS…
