For some reason the Object Drop Down Combo Box (The middle combo box on navigation bar) no longer works in Visual Studio. I recently installed the latest update, but the problem occurred after that.
(I have already looked at the Question regarding multiple monitors - the problem occurs regardless of what monitor I use)
I have tried a Visual Studio Repair
I have reset ALL VS settings
I have deleted the Local/Roaming folders
I have checked and un-checked the Navigation bar tool setting
Nothing works...
Symptom description -
Load a simple VB Form Project and add a textbox
In the center combo nav drop down, select the very first item (Form1 Events)
The far right combo does NOT fill with the events for that selection.
Or, in the code window, select some code in an object event like TextBox1_MouseUp -
The center nav combo dropdown WILL show the TextBox1 as the selection and the far right combo will display the events correctly.
Click on any other object in the center combo - nothing happens, no list of events is shown.
I am willing to do a complete uninstall and re-install, but it takes hours due to lousy internet connections in Japan, so this is my last hope for an answer before I waste an entire day...
Thanks.
This has now been fixed in v16.10.3
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Where is the Sync with active document button in Visual Studio?
I know that I can press Alt + Shift + L and I will get the Sync with active document.
I also know that I can enable in the Options the feature to work every time I focus on another file.
But I can not find a button in the VS interface to do that. Is it even present? I would expect such a button be somewhere in the top of the interface of the VS. Somewhere near the comment/uncomment buttons (that is just my feeling that it is there, I have no proofs or reasons to think so).
I know this might sound silly, but I spent about a day trying to figure out where the button went in the latest VS2019 (Version 16.10.2) update.
After one complete day of using the keyboard shortcut instead, I realised that the Icon has changed to a different Icon.
Note: The Track Active Item in Solution Explorer checkbox should be unchecked to see this Icon, as posted by #Sandro Stadler.
Pretty simple.
If you check this option, the document and solution explorer will be automatically synchronized and the icon will be hidden.
Deselect to show the icon in the solution manager.
In VS 2019 it is in the Solution Explorer window:
In VS 2010 when you drag one control to your page (left mouse button is still clicked and cursor is on the page area) so the toolbox tab (from your left side - and auto hide) is still there and it seems auto hide not work.
But in VS 2008 everything was ok!
What is the problem about that / I am looking for this answer because when you drag something on your page you can not see the right element for dropping that control !!!
Any idea?
If you drag a control from the toolbox to somewhere within the design canvas but not onto your form, the toolbox will remain visible despite auto-hide being enabled. Notice the mouse cursor will have the "NO" symbol (circle with a line through it) while over the canvas area. Once you successfully place the control onto the form somewhere, the toolbox will auto-hide.
Autohide is working well for me, however, if you are having a problem you can try the following:
try pinning and then unpinning the toolbox
if you want to drop the control in a certain area .. select that area (one left click on the element where you wanna add the control) and then double click on the control you want to add and it will be added to where you want it and then you can place it
if that didn't work .. (and it should) .. try repairing MS VS2010
Microsoft in their infinite wisdom have seen fit to remove the useful "Draw Grid" and "Snap to Grid" checkboxes in the report properties dialog that were in VS 2005 but are not in VS 2008. I'm assuming they put that functionality elsewhere but I can't find it after going through what seems like every menu option available. Does anybody know how to turn on the gridlines?
right click menu
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report properties dialog
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You absolutely sure you're using VS 2008? - looks like the 2005 dialog to me
There´s no how to do it, microsoft just took it off, because now the objects align with other objects, and you have 3 options to move the objects now, with mouse, by selecting the object and moving with your arrows in keyboard, which moves around 0,30 cm, and by holding ctrl and pressing arrows, which is more precisely.
There´s a lot of people complaining about that, maybe they will put this functionality back, I don´t know....
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If you right click off to the right of your report and select properties you will find Draw grid and Snap to Grid
I am wondering if anyone knows how to pull this off. Here goes.
I have a multi monitor setup, and I maximize Visual Studio to both windows. I create a new vertical document tab control, so that I have one document tab control in each physical screen. This is fine.
Now, I want to be able to make them work as if they were connected. I want to have the designer on one side, and the code related to the displayed designer on the other window.
I'd like it to have the following functionality:
If a item is double clicked on the solution explorer, open designer/code in both tabs.
When a document is selected in either pane, open appropriate file in the other pane.
Make the designer view refresh on edit, or periodically.
Any ideas on how I could pull this off?
Try to check (wait) for VS 2010 (beta now). There should be multi monitor support.
I just got into the office, and booted up my computer to work on my current project.
I hopped into a class file, and selected (through mouse highlighting) a group of events to delete.
What happened though was it only erased one character. Wondering what happened, I clicked at the beginning of the selection and re-highlighted the text to delete it again.
So i just clicked randomly in the middle of the file, and it highlighted from the beginning of the first selection all the way to where I clicked in the middle.
I have rebooted both VS, the computer and insured that sticky keys and all other "accessibility" software was turned off.
UPDATE
When I click shift and try to manually highlight with my arrow keys, the cursor doesn't even move.
UPDATE
When I click escape from the selection it goes to the search drop down:
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The same thing happened to me, I held down the shift key for a few seconds then while still holding it down I clicked anywhere in the open page in Visual Studio, and voilá, my mouse click was back to normal.
I imagine I had unwittingly activated some kind of keyboard shortcut but not sure which
I had this same problem too. I believe I found the solution: check your keyboard options.
Go under tools -> options, under the Environment subtree, click 'Keyboard'. Then, you will see a dropdown with the label "Apply the following additional keyboard mapping scheme". If you select "Brief" from this, you get the keyboard behavior as described. I'm not exactly sure what "Brief" refers to, but it certainly isn't familiar to me.
Change the keyboard layout back to (default) or another one to get the behavior you expect.
Reinstalled VS and now everything is better.