I recently upgraded to VS ultimate 2013, as it was free for my msdn License.
I'm playing around with the codemap function, and I for the most part think its very good. But what I dont like is when I add a new function to the map, it kinda blows up to one of the default views.
Is it possible to disable this?
All I really want to acheive is to get the calls chronologically. From top to bottom.
I'm not sure what you mean by "blowing up the default views" but here are some hints:
Have a look at the Layout menu. Perhaps disable "Incremental Layout" or re-layout by choosing one of the options (top to bottom etc.)
How do you add new functions to the map? Do you drag and drop from Solution Explorer? What do you expect to happen?
Upgrade to VS 2015. We've made many improvements to CodeMap in VS 2015. You can use VS 2015 side by side with VS 2013.
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In Visual Studio 2019, how can someone disable the auto-suggestion list being auto-resized?. This:
It is very very annoying when navigating through the suggested members and you miss-click the vertical scrollbar or another point inside the list due the width was auto-resized... this feature is not well-done for the visual sense of the human being, it is not productive for me.
I can understand the intention is to not occupy much visible area in the text editor when the list contains long member names but that logic is absurd because the list width will be sized to its maximum width if you want to pick that long member name, so... totally useless and annoying for me.
Disable suggestions list auto-resize on Visual Studio 2019?
I am afraid that you cannot get what you want in this issue so far. And VS IDE does not have such option to control it so far.
The purpose of the automatic adjustment of the scroll box is to facilitate the user to visually see the full name of the method and then confirm and use it. It is from the perspective of the convenience of developing code.
According to your needs, you need a better visual experience and the best suggestion is to add an option on VS IDE to force maintain the size. So we recommend that you could suggest your feature on our User Voice Forum
In addition, when you finish writing such feature, you can share the link here with us and anyone who is interested in this will vote for you so that it will get more attention from Microsoft.
Hope it could help you.
I have Visual studio 2013, resharper 8.2 and the productivity tools power pack.
My visual studio has 3 combos at the top of the code editor instead of the normal 2.
The combos are:
project, class and members.
I want to get back to normal:
classes and members.
Any idea which of the following is causing it, and how ti disable this specific features?
I don't think as things currently stand that you can disable it, but its name is apparently "Context Switcher".
According to this MSDN blog, it would appear to be a new feature intended to help you manage shared files in Universal Apps. I agree that it's confusing, and I'm not a big fan.
A thorough search of the VS options for anything related to "Navigation Bar", "Context Switcher", or "Universal Apps" comes up empty and there don't seem to be any extensions offering this capability either. As far as I know these would be the main avenues for configuration, so my conclusion is that we are stuck with it until the next VS update or until someone gets around to making an extension that can disable it.
If you prefer, you can disable the navigation bar entirely in "Tools > Options > Text Editor > All Languages > Navigation Bar" (or you can disable the bar on a language by language basis.)
Update: As of Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, you can drag and adjust the relative sizing of the 3 drop down lists in the navigation bar.
From a little local testing it looks like the sizing you set is shared between all files and solutions and it persists after closing and reopening visual studio.
I shrank the context switcher down to just the visible text, and it feels more well proportioned and closer to the classic Class and Member drop down layout.
The answer comes from this Stack Overflow page
I have a question about Visual Studio 2013.
I just installed it and it seems pretty good because of the new features.
But there is something I do not like:
Is it possible somehow removing these 3 x buttons ? Or just one of them?
Yes you can hide them.
Close Visual Studio.
Open regedit and find MainWindowFrameControls.
For example I want to remove:
1) Sign In
2) Notifications
So I need to delete:
{304ee989-b7c9-46c8-aa48-f080bc47cee0}
{73988e61-7e30-4e87-b891-23b5e460db21}
You can also delete them and it will work (you can remove feedback also by this way).
Although sometime VS recreates that keys. But solution is very easy - instead of deleting make right click and go to Permissions, add Everyone - Deny - Read. So now nobody will be able to read that keys including VS.
You can remove it to go to original state by the same way.
At the moment the social features don't seem to have any corresponding options you can use to disable them.
There is a method that relies on using Visual Commander extension to repeatedly hide some of the buttons (as Visual Studio
often recreates them), which seems like the closest you'll get for the moment.
http://visualstudioextensions.vlasovstudio.com/2013/10/19/hide-sign-in-and-feedback-buttons-in-the-visual-studio-2013-main-window/ - You can view the code in the "Extensions" section.
Unless you're desparate to get rid of them, you're probably better of trying to ignore them, hopefully an option to hide them will become available.
You can use the Disable Social Features extension, which will programmatically hide both the 'smiley' buttons as well as your own name/photo from the front of Visual Studio.
Has the menu & toolbar customization functionality in VS2010 been reduced?
I can't seem to be able to select an icon for an added command, nor set it to be icon-only. Previous versions of Visual Studio supported this functionality and even allowed the creation/editing of custom icons.
Is this something that has suffered as a result of the move to the WPF-authored UI or am I missing something?
Seems like this functionality was cut from Visual Studio 2010. This post has some info in the comments: Customizing Visual Studio 2010
Specifically - "Unfortunately assigning or editing icons to commands through Customize dialog is not possible in VS2010. It is one of the features got cut for lack of time. This is however something we'll consider adding back in next version."
The reply also has a longer explanation of a workaround.
As noted in the link mentioned in the answer from #Gordon Mackie JoanMiro, the REASON for the reduced functionality is that the VS Shell team migrated the entire UI (shell and command system) from Win32 to one based solely on WPF. This was a gargantuan task, I would imagine. However, a couple workarounds are now available:
You can export previously saved settings from VS 2008 and import them into VS 2010. That includes command bar customizations (as noted by #Don)
A more recent blog-post contains detailed instructions for using a new extension to VS2010 (available on Visual Studio Gallery) that allows users to change the images on the command UI. (Note that the old drag&drop customization interface is still not supported in this new extension.)
If you have custom icons, any attempt to make ANY changes to the tool bar will result in the custom icons disappearing and being replaced by text when you restart VS2010.
The only way I found to get my custom icons without text into VS2010 is to open VS2008, set up all of the tool bars the way I want, including custom icons, then export the settings (Tools| Import and Export Settings). Then open VS2010 and import those settings. Tedious, I know, but it allows me to have a down arrow icon that searches for the next instance of the word my cursor is on.
I have been trying to customize VS2010 toolbars/keyboard and what took a few minutes in previous versions takes hours now. The new system looks real pretty but is useless in practice. Apart from the fact you just can't do (like change the appearance of buttons as mentioned above) the things you can do are extremely time-consuming and annoying.
Why is it every new version of VS loses something really useful? Other examples:
VC++5 introduced a new HTML help system. Pressing F1 on a function name used to immediately show help for that function. After VC++5 getting context help became annoyingly much slower, and is still very slow (and inaccurate).
VS.Net (aka VS2002 or VC++7) had a useless bookmark system compared to VC++6. VS2010 bookmarks are better but not perfect.
VS.Net removed the search state buttons "whole word", "case sensitive" etc. These were possibly the most useful buttons ever as they quickly allowed you to see why a search may have failed.
I found a great extension: CommandingImage
It does not have an icon editor, but you can create your images as 16x16 png format (for transparency) and import it (I recommend Paint.Net)
Dave, here's how to add toolbar buttons:
1) in the IDE, find the down arrow looking thing on the far right of a toolbar and click on Add Remove Buttons, Customize
2) in the Customize window select the Menu Bar radio button then select the appropriate menu bar that you want to add a button to
3) click the "Add Command..." button
4) select the appropriate Category and Command button that you want to add, then click OK.
The command button you selected will be added to the menu bar you selected. You can move the button up or down.
I think this is what you are looking for.
Good luck!
Does anyone know where can I enable the bar that let me switch between different views (Design,split,..) in Visual Studio 2010 ? I can't find it and it is not enables by default
If you go into the Visual Studio Tools -> Options menu, under HTML Designer -> General there is a checkbox to enable or disable the HTML designer. Checking this and restarting VS will do the trick and show the Design/Split/Source options at the bottom again.
I really prefer the Code Optimized setup but do need on occasion to hit the design view, shame it does not seem easier to expose and, when exposed, takes up more UI than it really needs to.
Do you have the Design/source tabs down in the bottom left corner of the window? (just above where your debug & immediate windows appear from in the default view). If you do, look further to the right of them, there is a splitter bar you can drag up to produce the split mode.
It's a corrupt installation, try reintall the VS
I also cannot see the Design/Source tab split. I could have sworn it was in VS2010 RC. Did they take it out of retail?? (I'm working with an Activity xaml file)
go to Tool->Option->General->Enabe Html Designer