By default -> Find Next and <- Find Previous should be selected from DropDown. Is there any way to display them side by side without need to select from dropDown ?
Or maybe any useful extension for Quick Find exists?
I have installed Productivity Power Tools (PPT), it s enabled and working, but doesn't show its own Quick Find dialog instead of default VS2013 dialog. Is any way to prefer PPT over default?
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Please refer to this for the 2 types of Find results window I've encountered in VS2019 using the Quick find feature (or the default Ctrl+F).
The first image is a window that seems advanced, in that it has grouping of the results (by project, by file), it has other options like the Keep results, and List view toggles, etc etc.
The second image on the other hand is a really plain results list, without the options/features of the first one.
For the first window, I don't remember anymore how I've done it (I've started using VS2019 early last year), and for the succeeding VS installations, I'm only using this with a settings file exported from VS.
For the second window, I tried to reset VS settings (Tools → Import and Export Settings) and selected C#, and when I use quick find and see its results, it is this kind of find results window that is shown.
I really want to reset VS settings, but I cannot lose the features provided by the first Find result window.
Question: How to enable that window?
Sub question if I may - the reason I want to reset VS settings is that changes I make in Text Editor → C# → Code Style does not take effect and is reset (I make the changes, press OK button, open the options window again, and the values are reverted - even after restarting VS). What may have caused this behavior?
VS Version: Enterprise 2019, 16.6.5
It took me some time to figure out. There isn't a Find Result Window 1 and 2 anymore. After you perform a search, in the "Find" results pane, there is a "Keep Results" button. Click this button to lock the pane so that the next time you search, it will create a new "Find" results pane and keep the locked pane visible.
Tools > Options > Environment > Preview Features > Check "Use Previous Find in Files"
Ctrl+Shift+F > Open Result options > Select "Find results table"
Close the Find and Replace tool window and revert the aforementioned "Use Previous Find in Files" setting (optional)
Perform a search (either Find in Files or simply through the standard Ctrl+F find prompt)
Your results will then appear in the advanced tabular "Find results table" window.
Presumably this setting is also found elsewhere but I haven't been able to find it without turning off the Find in Files preview feature.
Where is the Sync with active document button in Visual Studio?
I know that I can press Alt + Shift + L and I will get the Sync with active document.
I also know that I can enable in the Options the feature to work every time I focus on another file.
But I can not find a button in the VS interface to do that. Is it even present? I would expect such a button be somewhere in the top of the interface of the VS. Somewhere near the comment/uncomment buttons (that is just my feeling that it is there, I have no proofs or reasons to think so).
I know this might sound silly, but I spent about a day trying to figure out where the button went in the latest VS2019 (Version 16.10.2) update.
After one complete day of using the keyboard shortcut instead, I realised that the Icon has changed to a different Icon.
Note: The Track Active Item in Solution Explorer checkbox should be unchecked to see this Icon, as posted by #Sandro Stadler.
Pretty simple.
If you check this option, the document and solution explorer will be automatically synchronized and the icon will be hidden.
Deselect to show the icon in the solution manager.
In VS 2019 it is in the Solution Explorer window:
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!
I am wondering if anyone knows how to pull this off. Here goes.
I have a multi monitor setup, and I maximize Visual Studio to both windows. I create a new vertical document tab control, so that I have one document tab control in each physical screen. This is fine.
Now, I want to be able to make them work as if they were connected. I want to have the designer on one side, and the code related to the displayed designer on the other window.
I'd like it to have the following functionality:
If a item is double clicked on the solution explorer, open designer/code in both tabs.
When a document is selected in either pane, open appropriate file in the other pane.
Make the designer view refresh on edit, or periodically.
Any ideas on how I could pull this off?
Try to check (wait) for VS 2010 (beta now). There should be multi monitor support.
Is there a built in way, or a free add-in, that can keep the tab bar of open files sorted in alphabetical order? Once sorted, how can I get CTRL-PageUP/DOWN (or other shortcut) to jump left/right instead of most/least recently viewed file.
Thanks,
Kurt
In VS 2017, using the Productivity Power Tools extension you can navigate to:
TOOLS > Options > Productivity Power Tools > Custom Document Well
Here you'll see a 'Sorting' section, where you can select 'Alphabetically'.
With the new settings applied the CTRL + PAGE DOWN (or in my case, CTRL + ALT + PAGE DOWN) will just flip between next/previous windows.
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In VS 2019, they aren't able to port the Custom Document Well extension so you'll have to vote for this feature to be added to Visual Studio instead.
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I don't have VS 2008, so I'm not sure if the path to get to those setting is exactly the same. If you are unable to find it, you should be able to install Productivity Power Tools from the Extensions and Updates module (also located under TOOLS).
Hope that helps!
It is not perfect but the downward-pointing triangle just to the left of the X that closes the current editor tab does display all currently opened files in alphabetical order.
I use ReSharper's "Go To...":
(source: jetbrains.com)
Use the VS Studio extension "Sort Tabs/Open Editors by name" by omagerio.
Close all your tabs.
Go to this extension settings and uncheck "Sort by full path"
I always switch VS from Tabs to MDI. With tabs on, after working for a while there are so many documents the tab bar gets meaningless.
I use Resharper and Ctrl-T with CamelCase(CC) to get to my classes, or a simple old-fashioned Ctrl-Tab.