I recently moved up from MSVS2010 to 2013.
Until now, I was loving 2013... However, I locked my PC and went to make coffee - upon my return, my navigation bar had randomly disappeared!
I'm not sure if what I mean is actually called the "Navigation bar" - by this, I mean the drop-down list in the top right corner that allows you to jump between functions/subroutines etc. really easily.
I saw this post which mentioned changing the setting in options (the navigation bar option is checked in my options). It also mentions that MSVS2013 has a bug that removes the bar when using an external monitor on the left of your native monitor, this is the case for me - but I have disconnected the monitor, restarted my PC and tried again - no joy!
The image below shows where the bar normally goes, forgive my crude censorship.
Any help is more than welcome, thanks.
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I'm running Visual Studio 16.9.3 This morning when doing web development, I noticed an odd change. On one of my web pages when running in debug mode, there was a Visual Studio icon in the lower left corner of the page that I have never seen before. See below:
Clicking the icon opens this context menu:
If I select the "Enable Inspector" menu choice then in the lower right corner of the Visual Studio window this is displayed:
However nothing else happens and that message never goes away.
What is this feature? What is it suppose to do? And how can I make it go away an not display and icon on my web page while doing development?
That menu is from the Web Live Preview extension, which is currently in preview. You can read a little more about it here or see a video with more recent details here.
I'm not sure how it suddenly became enabled for you in 16.9 (that should only happen if you install the extension from the marketplace), but you can disable it by clicking on Close from the menu and choosing the option appropriate for you.
That said, we'd also appreciate if you used the various feedback mechanisms mentioned in the links above or in VS itself to let us know some more details of your setup so we could get to the bottom of why it is stuck on Generating Logical Tree... for you. We'd rather it be useful so you don't want to turn it off!
this has been bugging me for quite a while now.
I'm using two monitors and usually have the main window of Visual Studio open on the primary monitor and things like the solution explorer, call stack, error list, output etc. on the second monitor in two separate windows which I split vertically by using the [Win] + [Left | Right] shortcut.
In another environment, this works fine (VS 2013, different machine). Of course, the window positions etc. are different between debug and regular view, but that's not really an issue.
Whenever I start debugging, the solution explorer window moves towards the right on the second monitor. This might even affect the other window (which contains the Call Stack, Output etc.).
After a few debug sessions, the window will be barely visible any more because it has moved so far towards the right...
This is even worse when I have multiple solutions open because then the solution explorer window that I see is actually the one from the instance in the background...
Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas how to fix this?
P.S.: I'm working on a windows server via a RDP session, maybe that contributes to the problem.
The following worked for me.
Under the Windows menu, save the desired layout with "Save Window Layout". I named mine "Debug". This might have something to do with the old layout names.
Stop debug mode if your in it, and apply that layout with "Apply Window Layout".
Start debug mode.
My un-docked windows flash as if they are resizing, yet stay where I had them in the saved layout.
I found something interesting today when opening VS2010 on my PC. It looked as if all the text had gone a bit fuzzy. It happens in particular in the menu bar after moving the mouse over the menu item the first time. Hopefully the pictures below can explain better than I...
Above is the menu bar with clear unblurred text.
Above, I have moved my mouse only over "Edit" and "View"
Finally, the above is after I moved my mouse over all menu items.
This is specific to VS2010 and has not occurred in the past. Even all the text on the "Start Page" is blurry (initially at start-up regardless of mouse movement).All other software on the PC (that I've seen) works normally.
Does anyone have any idea what could be the problem?
Come to find out, it is also doing this in Visual Studio Express 2010, but not VS2008 (ie. only stuff with WPF UIs).
Ok, I resolved this in the most unusual way.
I had previously adjusted the anti-aliasing for my ATI 5850 graphics card under the "game performance" setting. Apparently this also screws with non-gaming WPF graphics.
Reverted the setting back to "Use application settings" and all is good.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but I have the following behavior in Visual Studio 2005 while designing forms:
1 - Drop a control onto the form (suppose it's a Label, just for discussion)
2 - Drag that label to a specific location (aligning w/other controls, whatever)
3 - Release the mouse button
4 - The control is still stuck to the mouse!!!
To get it un-stuck from the mouse, I have to hit ESC, which restores the Label to it's original location.
This is driving me nuts. I literally have to use the arrow keys to move each control into place, pixel-by-pixel. I don't observe this behavior anywhere else in VS2005, nor do I observe it in the OS in general.
I am running on Windows XP inside a Parallels Virtual Machine, hosted on OS X. I don't think there is a driver problem though, b/c as I already said, no other apps demonstrate anything like this.
Please tell me there is some tiny checkbox buried somewhere that will turn off this behavior.
Sounds like you might have ClickLock enabled (or a similar feature). Try this:
Go to Control Panel in Windows
Open the Mouse control panel
Go to the Activities tab
Deselect ClickLock
If that doesn't work, maybe you have a similar feature in OS X?
This problem spread to other applications within my VM, so I reinstalled Parallels tools and it went away.
When developing on a system with dual monitors, I like to make the most of the extra space by stretching Visual Studio across both. It is fantastic to be able to see the Output, Breakpoints, Error List, Object Browser, and ReSharper windows at the same time without having to make them tiny and dock them in the main window, which leaves less space for code.
I place the main VS window on one monitor with the tabbed document and Solution Explorer windows. Any other windows I want to display are placed on the second monitor and docked together. The only problem I encounter with this method is that the main tabbed document window with the VS menu bar is the only window that can be maximized. The additional windows such as Solution Explorer, Breakpoints and Error List can only be stretched, docked or closed. I often go through the tedious work of selecting and laying out secondary windows only to have that layout be erased when I close VS.
Does anyone know of a VS add-in that gives you a window that (1) is maximizable, and (2) other windows can be docked in (ReSharper only does 2) ? Barring that, does anyone know of a good resource to learn how to develop VS add-ins? I am keen to do so myself if necessary.
I don't know of either of your suggestions, although I would also love to see better multiple-monitor support in VS. What I have done, though, is saved various window layouts (Tools > Import and Export Settings, and check only Window Layout) so that I can switch easily when I feel like it.