I am using SSDT in Visual studio 2017 community. I am having an extra column in my designer. Anyone knows what's it and how to remove it?
This is the new area for laying out your parameters.
You can change the size of the parameters pane by dragging the dividing line between that and the main design area.
But if you want to get rid of it, you can go to the Report menu in the Visual Studio menu bar, choose 'View' and then deselect 'Parameters'.
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I'm a complete newbie to Visual Studio 2017 and now need to update a old windows application. I down loaded VS 2017 community, found my .RC files and used it to open one of my dialog designs. It displays correctly but my problem is how do I get the VS to display the tools such as grid lines, alignment tools, etc? And how do I display the menu of the various controls (boxes and items) that one can add to the dialog design?
Those are in the toolbox pane/sidebar/thingie on the side. If you don't see it, go to the View menu and select "Toolbox" to turn it on.
I want to open a repx file with a designer.
(but now, I only see the code behind)
I have installed Visual Studio 2013 and DevExpress.
I just want to add 3 paramters to a printer lable.
The existing file was made with XtraReport - maybe that helps.
Thx.
First, open or create a blank XtraReport file in design mode in Visual Studio. Then, click on the Tasks tag on the upper-left corner of the report design surface. From the pop-up menu, click on "Open/Import" and select a .repx file.
Sometimes when I open my Visual Studio form designer, I see the [Add] text to create a new BarButtonItem, other times I don't. This has led me to search for a way to create a new button several times now. Any idea what might be causing this?
Try to right click your bar manager, and check the Show DesignTime Enhancements.
Here is a link that may help.
I am using db4o in Visual Studio 2010 but the Object Manager Enterprise toolbar will not saved its position when I restart the IDE. It comes back each time below the standard toolbar while I would like both toolbars to be on the same row to not use vertical space.
Do you have the same issue with this extension or another extension? How can we force a toolbar to remain at the same position accross sessions?
As an alternative, I wanted to create my own toolbar with the same buttons (as a toolbar I create would not be affected by the issue), but I cannot find the buttons related to the extension in the long list of available commands.
Thanks!
When I moved from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010, there seems to only be a small section of pointing space (for the mouse) to click and drag and click again, to grab a few lines of code. This is about 8 pixels wide and is referred to as the Selection Margin. I often used this area in Visual Studio 2008 to select/copy/paste code. Now I have to rely on using the keyboard, which is not difficult, but if I'm using the mouse, Visual Studio is not very intuitive or usable. Is there a way to prevent the highlighting of lexical groups (where the expand/collapse or plus/minus sections are) so I can just select the lines of code instead? They seem to call this block highlighting. Most of the surface area to the left of the text in Visual Studio 2010 seems to be dedicated to the block highlighting. The text editor freezes when a lexical block of code is highlighted and I cannot use the right context menu. The right context menu is also only available from inside the text editor now, so I have to select my lines in that 8 pixel region, then move my mouse over to the right to copy. My productivity in Visual Studio 2010 has decreased substantially because of this change.
I'm wondering if anyone has written any extensions with the Visual Studio 2010 editor to fix these issues?
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/WriteExtensions.aspx
Options > Text Editor > All Languages > Show line numbers. This allows you to have more space to select and copy the lines, but you still must go over to the right (where the code is) to copy.
Have you tried to select in a so called 'Continuous Stream Mode' which is supported by VS 2010 by default? Here's what I mean -> Hold down the SHIFT key and click in the Selection Margin(located at the far left of the Editor window, to select a whole line.) to extend your selection line by line.
Regards,
Evgenia