In VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, when you select (highlight) a snippet of code and press an opening key for brackets ({ or [) or parentheses ((), it wraps the selected text. Visual Studio, however, deletes the selected snippet, or better, replaces it by the pressed character. Is there a way to configure it to the more intelligent behaviour of VS Code and JetBrains? I browsed "Text Editor" settings but didn't find any that seemed to do this:
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I would like Visual Studio to autocomplete the current entry in the intellisense menu only when I hit tab.
Autocompletion being triggered, for example, when I press a period, is forcing me to hit escape every time I'm writing something that cannot yet be autocompleted, to avoid that what I'm typing gets replaced with a random entry.
Is there an option to configure this?
I'm using Visual Studio 2015, and programming in C#.
Example: here I'm typing Log, which is a class for which I haven't yet added the appropriate using statement. None of the suggestions is the good one. If I hit . now, the autocomplete feature will write EventLogProcessor, which is not what I want.
Please note that this question has nothing to do with VIM, this is not a duplicate of the question linked at the top.
Use Toggle Between suggestion and Standard completion mode option of visual studio .. It will now only suggest .. and if you press Tab it will complete your choice ..
Edit -> IntelliSense -> Toggle
For Visual Studio 2012, from the Menu Bar,
Select Tools -> Options
In the left pane, expand Text Editor -> C#
Select InteliSense
The characters that commit are listed in a text box
I'm using the Surround With feature in Visual Studio with some custom code snippets. Is there a way to configure visual studio (or a custom surround snippet) to treat the entire line like it is selected, if there is currently no selection?
The same functionality is provided when you do a keyboard shortcut such as Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V etc. If you have no selected text, it performs the action on the entire line.
If someone still wants to answer this as far as doing this with Visual Studio's native functions, they can - However it was pointed out to me in a comment that resharper does this automatically. Which is something I did not realize. Seem's I'll be moving all my VisualStudio surround snippets over to Resharper Surround templates!
I moved from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010.
My code snippets work good in Visual Studio 2010 on the start of a line, but not when adding parameters to a methodcall. This did work in Visual Studio 2008.
So when i type this : "DoSomeMethod([nowiwantmycodennippets!]", the code snippets are not in the intellisense list.
Does anyone know if this is a setting, or just not working anymore, and if it can be fixed?
This appears to be bug. If you type your snippet name (i.e. noiwantmycodesnippets) and press ESC to dismiss the completion list (if open), then you can press Tab to insert your code snippet. So it's just a matter of the code snippets missing from the completion list.
You can use the Control+K, Control+X key chord to show the code snippets' list also. But this isn't as nice as using it through the completion list.
Are you using ReSharper? If so, Resharper Intellisense overwrites the VS default one, so that i.e. code snippets do no appear in the completions. Try turning off ReSharper Intellisense in the ReSharper Options (Environment->Intellisense->General, choose Visual Studio).
If ReSharper Intellisense is a must, you'll have to create a ReSharper "Live Template" which opens up for "code snippets" behaviour, only ReSharper is way more advanced -- see for example this one http://www.brianlow.com/index.php/2009/04/06/resharper-live-templates-for-nunit/.
On my machine I just type "public void Test(" and than ctrl+space and type the name of my snippet. Works like a charm. I've got the C# keyboard shortcuts, I think.
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 and I'm used to C# where when Intellisense pops up, I select what I want by hitting enter and it doesn't skip down to the next line. In VB when I hit the enter on intellisense, I jump to the next line. Does anyone know where the setting for this intellisense option might be?
Hitting the SPACEBAR or TAB key in VB does the same thing that ENTER does in C#.
I know that this doesn't really answer your question, but intellisense is designed to work so that you just push the "next" character to choose the highlighted item (such as open parenthesis, period, semi-colon, etc).
I was bothered by this behavior in VB as well. This will be fixed in the next version of Visual Studio with a new setting for enter-key behavior.
https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/pull/11873
Corrected link: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/pull/11769
In Delphi if I type "if" and space it automatically inserts the code snippet with an if statement block defined. I know in Visual Studio I can insert a snippet, but I have to either right-click and select "insert snippet", or hit CTRL-K followed by CTRL-X.
Is there a way to configure Visual Studio to automatically insert the snippet like Delphi does?
Press tab tab.