Clean vs Fix Usings

[Stuart Hemming]

When I Fix Usings JC moves all of my aliases to the bottom of the Usings block...

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using Telerik.Web.UI;
using CommSec = UEAPL.Common.PresentationLayer.WorkgroupSecurityServiceProxy;
using Utils = UEAPL.Shared.Utilities;

and then, when I clean my code, JC sorts the aliases in to the Usings block alphabetically...

using CommSec = UEAPL.Common.PresentationLayer.WorkgroupSecurityServiceProxy;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using Telerik.Web.UI;
using Utils = UEAPL.Shared.Utilities;

I know I've mentioned this before and I know that you said that the 2 functions do things differently. The point is I can't even begin to imagine what a good reason for that behaviour might be.

The current behaviour means that we get changes in out source code change history that are not really part of the actual changes if programmer A cleans the code last and programmer B fixes the usings last.

Please, sort it out.

FWIW, I think Fix Usings does it (putting the aliases at the bottom) is the way to go.

--
Stuart

[Svetlozar]

Hi,

This is clearly a bug. Could you please help us reproduce it. I tried with

using CommSec = UEAPL.Common.PresentationLayer.WorkgroupSecurityServiceProxy;
using System;
using System.Linq;
using Utils = UEAPL.Shared.Utilities;

namespace ConsoleApplication5
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            CommSec a = new CommSec();
            Utils b = new Utils();
        }
    }
}

namespace UEAPL.Common.PresentationLayer
{
    public class WorkgroupSecurityServiceProxy { }
}

namespace UEAPL.Shared
{
    public class Utilities { }
}

Cleaning with all steps excluding Arrange namespaces sorted the using directives in  the right way for me.
Could you please send a sample solution.
 
All the best,
Svetlozar
the Telerik team