I'm trying to reduce my mouse usage in Visual Studio. Until now I haven't been able to access the drop down lists in the "Package Manager Console" - see the attached picture.
The letter "k" in "Paketquelle" is underlined, but pressing Alt+K or any combos of Tab+Modifier key will not focus the drop-down lists. Based on this post I tried Ctrl+F2 for no good. Any ideas?
PS: Unfortunately I have to use the localized german version, but this should not be a problem.
Wow, I feel retarded now. A simple Shift+Alt+K did the trick. You can then cycle the bar with Tabulator, putting the focus back on the console by pressing Esc.
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There seems to be a a series of problems related to using the keyboard (only) on the mac - as opposed to resorting to the mouse. I am wondering if people have figured out workarounds for some of these issues.
Example 1: Hitting Enter does not work. Hitting tab does not work.Hitting space does not work. Only way to 'accept'/close the dialog is to mouse over and hit ok. Yuck.
Example 2: Using The Option button we can the "Do Refactor has D underlined - so clicking option-D should accept. However it does not work. Once again - only way is to click using the mouse
Example 3: In refactor dialog, one can not hit "return" or tab over or use "alt-r" to accept the Refactor. Once again - using mouse is the only way.
Example 4: In ANY open file dialog you have to type in manually the entire path. This one is confirmed bug by JetBrains, and I wonder if anyone has an idea of workaround
Click on the "option" key and the Mnemonics DO show up. I discovered this by accident.
When I Ctrl+Shift+F in VS2010, it puts whatever is near my cursor in the "Find what:" box - this is very irritating and never what I want.
Is there any way to make it default instead to the last thing I searched for?
Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Find and Replace -> Automatically populate Find What with text from the editor
If you uncheck this option it will default to the last thing you searched for.
an nice. Glad i found this...
two work arounds i figured out... if you do want to search in selected text only sometimes but not all the time...
Mouse: Click back on the page and ctrl+A (its faster than having to grab the mouse and clicking the tiny drop down.)
Keyboard only: Well you cant technically do this, with any one command from http://visualstudioshortcuts.com/14/ but you can do this.
while find is active, hit
alt+F6
to get out of find and then hit
esc
to activate the document then
ctrl+A
to search the whole document
I am glad to find how to turn this off, but i am used to this keyboard commands now. So maybe i will leave it on.
if you don't learn to use the escape key in VS, especially for intellisense you are going to seriously drive yourself crazy.
I don't know what key combination I did, but now each time I click somewhere in the page, Visual Studio selects the text between first and second mouse click.
I tried to escape from this "selection mode", but nothing helps, nor Escape, nor left clicks, nor Ctrl+Up/Down.
I opened another VS window and there is all right - normal selection.
What is it, how to cancel it, what is it for?
I should probably restart Visual Studio. I remember that that happened some times ago in VS 2005. Very annoying VS "feature".
P.S. It disappeared as suddenly as it appeared, but I found similar problem described here. The guy says that "The only way to stop is to press escape or shift and an arrow key."
I have very often the same issue, just after stopping the debugger. No idea how it starts... But I found the key combination to stop it: Press "Alt Gr"+"Ctrl(right)"+"Shift(right)"
I figured out how to turn this issue on and off:
Just press the ins (Insert) key; If you're using a full sized keyboard it will be to the right of backspace and above delete or if you're using a smaller keyboard it'll be the second option of zero key on the number pad to the right of the right arrow key.
Click on tools and then options. Under environment select keyboard. Then there will be a window open up with options. The first drop down says something about mapping. Set that to default.
Brief, if this was previously selected, is an old DOS format and the key bindings will cause similar actions.
I have experienced the same problem (VS 2010). Here is what happens:
I start the debugger on a project whith Unmanaged debugging enabled. When I try use the key combination Ctrl+Shift+L to delete a line I get a dialog saying 'Changes are not allowed when unmanaged debugging is enabled'. The title of the dialog is 'Edit and Continue'. When the dialog is closed the editor gets stuck with this behavior:
Shift+Right-Click behavior: It selects the text between the cursor and the position of the mouse-click
Ctrl+Scroll behavior: If I try to scroll using the mouse wheel it will zoom in or out instead.
It behaves like the Shift and Ctrl keys are being held down.
I have found these key combinations that will get me out of this situation:
Shift + Arrow down
Ctrl + Arrow down
Until I discovered this I had to restart Visual Studio.
Use the (insert) Key in the Key board.
I have this issue when I VPN to a machine running VS. Here is the key combination I have found to get me out of this state. I do a ctrl-f to open the find window. I type some characters in the find textbox and I notice that the letters are all capital (even though I did not set the caps lock). I hit the caps lock key and test using the find text box to make sure my caps lock is not set (lowercase). Once the lowercase is set, the selecting text between mouse clicks behavior goes away. Don't know why, but this works for me.
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.
On Eclipse, whenever I double click a tab, it fills the workspace (by hiding all other views like project tree, console, etc).
Is there any way to do this on Visual Studio?
Note: i'm not looking for full screen, just want a way to declutter the workspace but still have access to menus.
Are you after this?
Set shortcuts for the Window.AutoHideAll function and for the Window.ResetWindowLayout function. In order for the ResetWindowLayout to work, you have to export your settings (make sure you select "All Settings") with all windows expanded and then import them again.
ResetWindowLayout will restore all windows to the way they were the last time you imported your settings.
Not with double click on tab, but you can do the same with Shift+Alt+Enter key combination.
This keyboard shorcut was changed to F11 from 1.9.1 vscode version.
All keyboard Shortcuts: https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-windows.pdf
I was looking for that, as well, and I now just got used to using full screen (Shift+Alt+Enter), which hides a little too much, which you seem to think, as well, but does in fact still show the menus.
Looks like drby got it on this one. Just FYI. I pinged the VS team to ask about this and here is the response:
"There is no way to reverse the command automatically. For it to work as a toggle we would need to save which toolwindows were auto hidden and which ones were not when the command was run, which we don’t do (it would cause lots of interesting persistence questions, across profiles and VS sessions)."
The idea of a "Unhide All" command is what I suggested. So if you hide all then you can unhide all as well. There might be some windows you don't want to unhide but the 1 or 2 extra windows is better than not having an unhide IMHO.