Disable “Auto ID elements” in Visual Studio 2013

For now the best solution seems to be a workaround that was posted by a user on the Microsoft Connect website which is to paste the code as a comment.

Fool the IDE that we’re not pasting code (thus he won’t alter it). How ? Paste a comment ! How to do that in real life ? Here is how I do it (feel free to suggest other ways!):

1) Place cursor where I want to paste code
2) ctrl-k, ctrl-c (i.e.
comment region. Since no region was selected, an empty comment is
inserted and our cursor Inside of it) 3) ctrl-v (paste content that is
believed to be a comment by the IDE) 4) ctrl-k, ctrl-u (i.e.
un-commenting the current comment we’re in!

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