I have a c# project in my Visual studio 2008 which when built, outputs a bunch of files in a temp directory for other programs to use i.e. JsTestDriver, JsCoverage, etc (all a bit Unix-related).
Trouble is, everytime when the files were generated, they seem to contain weird return carriage/line feed which upsets the programs that would use them next.
What I'm currently doing is manually create a notepad file, rename it to a different name, then copy and paste the entire content of the generated file (and save) to solve this problem. This is, of course, tedious and not something I enjoy doing (ultimately I want this whole process to be automated).
So my question is: how do I get Visual Studio to output the correct/proper CR/LF so I no longer need to go through the manual process?
If the above is too vague, I'll be happy to clarify. Thanks in advance.
Yes, it's a bit too vague at the moment - you should provide:
The simplest way of changing what happens in terms of line endings is probably to just be explicit about it in the code. For example, instead of:
output.WriteLine(foo);
write
output.Write(foo);
// Here LineTerminator would be a constant - or you could make
// it a variable somewhere
output.Write(LineTerminator);
... possibly encapsulating this in your own class to make it easier (so you can have your own WriteLine method which does the right thing, perhaps).
EDIT: I've been assuming that it's your own code writing out the files. If that's not the case, the easiest solution is probably to find or write a tool to convert the files, and put it as a postbuild step. I'm sure such tools exist (I think there was one called dos2unix a while ago) but it may be as easy to write your own as to find one which does exactly what you want.