I want to look at (a label name for example in) the properties box (shown by clicking the element in the interface window) and scroll through my code until I find what I'm looking for. The problem is that as soon as I click the code window, properties goes blank.
Is it possible to change this behavior?
It's annoying to copy and paste or (gasp) remember what I was just looking at.
the properties window is context-sensitive, so it shows properties for whatever it is you're looking at - in your case, code. now it just happens that code has no properties to show, which is why its blank.
I wouldn't want to change it - next thing you know, you'd be clicking on something and not seeing the properties for it! That would be bad.
I am curious about an issue in Coded UI Testing. For example I created a button named Button1. I did assertions and everything is fine. Then I changed this button's name to Button2. Now, do I have to write my assertions again or is Coded UI Test can suit in every different name change. Notice that I am not doing any input or parameter changes, I am just changing user interface. Thanks for your replies.
You should be able to change the test code easily to cope with a name change like that. Open the UI Map file in the UI Map editor; ie double-click on the uimap.uitest file in solution explorer. In the left hand pane expand the method and select the action that clicks the button. That should open the relevant control in the right hand pane. Alternatively just find the control for the button in the right pane. View the properties of the button and click on the ellipsis of the "(collection)" value of SearchProperties or the FilterProperties. One of the items shown should be the old name of the button, just rename it there.
I'm creating RDLC reports in VS10. When the program is NOT running, I can see the toolbox, and add controls to the report, but the "Report Data" pane is nowhere to be found, so I can't fill the controls on my report. However, if I run the solution, the "Report Data" pane appears, and I can drag fields on to my report, however the Toolbox contains no controls while I'm running. So, I've had to put the controls on to my report while not running, run the project and while it's running I can put the fields in....
anyways, how do I get the Report Data pane to stay visible while the project is not running?
The most common answer to this problem is to go to the Data menu and choose Show Data Sources. This option does not appear for me.
The Show Report Data Pane keyboard shortcut did work for me:
CTRL+ALT+D. There is nothing in the menus that I could find that does this same thing.
After I accidentally closed this window, I took an hour to find how to bring it back up.
The right answer is indeed:
View-->Report Data (ctrl+alt+D)
The tricky part: the 'Report Data' entry does not always appear in the 'View' dropdown. Make sure that you have a report open, and some element of the report selected.
If you're not 'in the report', the entry disappears from the menu.
Hi I faced the same issue in VS2008, I tried based on the post 8 (Thanks to the "Tricky part" section in that)
The (Ctrl+Alt+D) combo did not work there in VS2008, but after opening the Report file(rdlc) I browsed on the View menu and found out that View->Toolbars->Data Design is the solution for that.
Upon opening that we get around 4 icons of which the "Show Data Sources" section brings the "Website Data Sources" section which fetches all Entities, Typed DataSets etc.
The keybord shortcut is (Shift+Alt+D).
The twisty part here is the "Data Sources" section available with the Server Explorer toolbar doesnt bring up any stuff but the "Website Data Sources" brings all the needed., can somebody explain that to me.
I was also same problem in Visual Studio 2013, Then Suddenly got an Idea.. Click on Report to make focus on it.
Simple Press Alt+Ctrl+D
I had the same problem, but in c# 2012
I closed the "report data" and I couldn't find it and I finally found a solution to this issue.
This is my method:
VIEW >> TOOLBARS >> CUSTOMIZE >> COMMANDS ... select from the "Menu bar" .. VIEW.
OK now in the "Controls" find the "REPORT DATA", select it and MOVE it UP, close the menu.
After that select a file.rdlc and click on the "View" ... OK Finally will be appeared "REPORT DATA"...
I had to go through a bit more to force a refresh in VS 2008.
First, there is a Data Sources pane/toolbox (menu trail = Data > Show Data Sources), and a Report Data Sources dialog (menu trail = Report > Data Sources). I had trouble with the Data Sources pane reverting to an earlier property list every time I opened a certain report; it was as if the report designer was overwriting the data definition with the report's cached version thereof.
To remedy this, I had to:
Exclude the report from my project to stop the build errors
Clean & rebuild my project
Refresh the Data Sources pane & confirm I could see the new fields
Re-include the report and open the report designer with the Data Sources pane pinned in view
(This is the key) Drag one of the new fields anywhere onto the report surface
Number 5 forced the report's internal XML copy of the data definition to refresh. Immediately after that, I could build again.
If the report designer is opened, Report Data Pane can be enabled using view menu.
View -> Report Data
It is in visual studio. In the designer page, it is on in the menu bar, there is XTRAREPORTS field. You can show up panels using it
Open report in Report designer
Go to View menu -> Report data
I was in a weird situation in VS2019 where choosing View -> Report Data did nothing, and pressing Ctrl-Alt-D did nothing. The Report Data window had just strangely appeared on the left for no reason, when it was supposed to be on the right, and so I had moved it back to the right and then made it auto-hide. Not long after that it disappeared and would refuse to reappear. Possibly it was off-screen but hard to say.
To fix, I had to resort to using Window -> Reset Window Layout which restored its position and I was able to use it again.
First of all select report file with rdlc extension and then go to View > Report Data
please go to
View > Toolbars > Customize
then select "Data" categories then click "Show data source" in command panel
"Data" menu will be seen in menu panel. click to get the website data source
I am creating a program which launches a game server. I have combobox in which the user can enter the ip, map, etc, of the game. How can I save what they have entered so that the next time they are already there so they don't have to re-enter them.
Use Visual Studio's Settings Designer, Right click on your project then properties, navigate to the settings section, from there, you can add anything you want.
then you can access your settings from code like so
My.Settings.nameOfSettingsEntry = value
My.Settings.Save()
you'll find more details and screenshots here,
You can also bind the settings to the control using the Properties Window.
Right click your project in the Solution Explorer and choose Properties. Go to Settings and create a new String setting. Then click on your ComboBox and open up the Application Settings > PropertyBinding section from the Properties Window. From there you can bind the control's text property to the String setting you just created.
I'm not sure if this is right, but I can't view the "code behind" in VB6. Everytime I click the "view code" for an object (for example a button), the code does not display.
Can you help me with this or any workaround for this? I need to do a breakpoint on this.
I ran into the same issue. Could not view the code or the designer.
Seems that VB6 lost track of where things should be displayed, whether offscreen or not I could not tell. Kept clicking View Code and View Object, and neither worked.
Found the solution:
Attempt to open the code or designer that doesn't show up. (It will get opened, just won't show)
Select Window from the menu, then select Cascade.
You should then see the code/designer show up on the screen. No re-install or remove/add needed.
You may need to do this each time, even after saving the .vbp (project) file, upon re-opening VB6 the files once again are not showing for me, but Cascade makes them visible again. (Anyone have any ideas on how to make this more permanent?)
Enjoy!
You may remove the form which is not showing the code in the project explorer window and add it again by right clicking on the project explorer window then select Add -> Form -> (instead of selecting in "New" tab navigate on the "Existing" tab then choose the form you have just remove and try viewing its code again). It will work 100% :D
Double click your controls and the source code will be shown.
Go to this link.
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