It is so painful for me to "Ctrl+F" keys to open search or find text box in Visual Studio 2013. So how to I put this text box back to tool bar and click on it when I need?
If you look closely you will see a small folder with magnified class icon in the tool bar attached is the image.
Click on the dropdown menu next to it to the right and select what you want to add permanently to your toolbar menu.
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As you know, some controls have many properties so it is difficult to find an specific property of a control in Properties window of Visual Studio. How can I search in Visual Studio Properties window?
Select the control that you are interested in, then open the properties dialog (right-click options, or press F4) you should see a box labelled 'Search Properties'.
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If you like to show the search on property tap you have to install devexpress to your project and then add at least one tool from devexpress and then the "search" box will appear. I have tried it.
I'm maintainig an old MFC application with Visual Studio 2013. Building the application works fine, but I'm unable to use the dialog editor.
When I open a dialog from the resource view, it displays correctly, I can click on the existing items, view their properties, move them etc.
But when I open the toolbox via the View-Toolbox command (Ctrl+Alt+X), all I get is an empty toolbox as displayed below:
Right click on the toolbar and "Reset Toolbox" doesn't change anything
Right click and then "Show all" shows an impressive list of tools, among those there is the Dialog Editor, but all items are inactive as shown in the picture below:
On the other hand when I create a new MFC project from scratch, the toolbox containing the dialog items works fine.
Does anybody have an idea what could be wrong?
FYI: in the meantime I use Visual Studio 6 (yes) for editing the resources.
There are two typical work arounds to get the toolbox back in Visual Studio. One is to reset the toolbox as you've tried. The other is to delete the “.tbd” files in your corresponding C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0 folder.
We are working with TFS. Are there any plugins for Visual Studio 2012/2013 allow to create Work Items from code editor?
It's quiet annoying to get through several menus to create a work item.
You can customize the menu bar shortcuts for this so can have quick access directly from the IDE:
Right click the menu bar area in Visual Studio and check Work Item Tracking
Customize the menus and toolbars to add shortcuts to your favorite work item types.
I've attempted to navigate the Options menu in Visual Studio to no avail. How can I change Visual Studio 2010 to display tabbed documents vertically instead of the default horizontally?
Right-click on the tab of the file that you are viewing and select New Vertical Tab Group.
And once you have a vertical tab group opened, you can just click and drag files to that vertical pane.
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It looks like this functionality is available through Pro Power Tools for Visual Studio.
How can I show only the icons in visual studio windows? For example, the properties bar tab shows the icon and the text "Properties". Also the toolbox tab shows the icon the text "Toolbox". I would like to see only icons on tabs.
Do you know where this setting is?
Thanks
In VS2008 you can right click the toolbox and deselect "list view". This will change the view to icon, but only for the current tab.