Why doesn't Visual Studio code formatting work properly for Razor markup?

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Or, should I rather ask, when will VS code formatting work properly for Razor markup? The formatting works for most structures, but it seems to choke on 'if' blocks. The code below is as it is formatted by VS. It is very easy to fix this case, with one more indent, but I nicely accepted the formatting in everyday use, and like to use it often for the bulk of my code, so I'd rather avoid manual formatting if possible. Right now I just leave it as VS formats it.

@{ 
    if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
    {
    <text>Hello </text>
    @Html.Display("@ViewBag.UserName") <text> - </text>
    @Html.ActionLink("Sign Out", "LogOff", "Account", null, new { style = "font-weight: bold;" })
    }
 }

I think it's important for readability that, e.g. in the above, the body of the if block is indented, besides just looking nicer.

11 Answers

I work with VS2017 15.9.2 and still have the problem.
After change the editor settings to use spaces instead of tabs, the behavior in editing (e.g. copy - paste code lines) is way better, but "Format Document" still add wrong indents by every call.

No solution, but a short update:

It seems as the issue is solved partial in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.0 Preview 2.1
Link to MS for the issue

Further short update:
I have found a (bad and ugly) workaround (to write the whole code to a razor control in ONE line. You can find the details here Workaround to wrong indentation Razor Controls

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