I'm using German keyboard layout and English Windows 8.1. However, Visual Studio 2013 keeps changing the keyboard layout to the English ones. I can't even predict when it changes it. It's pretty random.
Question: Why does Visual Studio do this and how do I prevent it?
bytecode77,
The shortcuts you are pressing in VS must be coinciding with the Windows shortcuts for changing language. This is why it seems random to you.
I think that your question is answered in more detail here:
Visual Studio appears to randomly adopt American keyboard layout
and here:
Ctrl+Space changes keyboard instead of showing Intellisense's Auto-complete list on Visual Studio 2010
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I was using VS 2012 in Windows 7. Yesterday, I installed Windows 8 and installed Visual Studio 2013.
And i can not use Ctrl-Shift-V keys for Cycle Clipboard Ring. I have tried to assume manually Ctrl-Shift-V keys for Cycle Clipboard Ring in Tools\Options\Keyboard menu. Still not working.
[SOLVED]- I have tried it in Design Window. It works fine in Code window.
Open up the Visual Studio Keyboard settings and make sure that the binding is setup correctly. You might have accidentally selected a different template the fist time you launched Visual Studio.
In my C# 2005 bindings, it's available. You might have to reset the mapping scheme and restart Visual Studio.
There might be a add-on, like Resharper that's interfering with the keybindings.
The same story on Win7 and VS2013.
In my case helped only removing ReSharper.ReSharper_PasteMultiple shortcut.
Thanks to the thread:
Visual Studio: ctrl+shift+v opens clipboard ring window I've coped with that.
ReSharper had been turned off nonetheless I had to totally remove the ReSharper's shortcut repeatedly pressing "Remove" (it was switching stacked values).
i've created binding for Visual Studio's Edit.BriefBookmarkDropx commands:
Edit.BriefBookmarkDrop1: Ctrl+Shift+1
Edit.BriefBookmarkDrop2: Ctrl+Shift+2
Edit.BriefBookmarkDrop3: Ctrl+Shift+3
...
Edit.BriefBookmarkDrop9: Ctrl+Shift+9
Using Tools -> Options -> Keyboard:
Except that when i hit Ctrl+Shift+2, nothing happens:
i know Microsoft likes to obfuscate Visual Studio features. What's the secret trick that i'm missing?
Note: i am installed DPack into Visual Studio Professional - an addon that provides brief bookmarks (and a number of other essential features). Do not confuse this for an answer to my question:
you cannot install addons into Visual Studio Express
you cannot install addons into the Visual Studio Shell
my question isn't about addons
Bonus Reading
MSDN: How to: Use Bookmarks with Brief Emulation (Visual Studio 2008)
Numbered Bookmarks addon for Visual Studio 2005
DPak Numbered Bookmarks
It took four years, but i figured it out. Everything i was doing was correct. The only issue is that Visual Studio is stupid. Here's how to configure Visual Studio to drop a Brief bookmark:
How's that different from what i showed in the question?
Fails Use new shortcut in: Global
Works Use new shortcut in: Text Editor
By default any keys you bind in the Global space do nothing.
Which begs the question why the option is there, and the default? But usability is not something Visual Studio team prides itself on.
It's common for me to have 20+ files opened in Visual Studio (I use VS 2008 now, but we will migrate to VS 2010, soon.). Is there any add-in which could help organize actively opened files?
I mean something like Firefox colorful tabs or a tab-manager which will group windows tabs by projects or folders,...
Visual Studio Power tools will do it for 2010, out of luck for 2008 (as far as I know).
There are versions of Power tools for all the newer Visual Studios.
Newest: VS Power tools 2015
You can have them color coded by assembly, most recently used up front, and several other sorting/grouping options
Tabs Studio document tabs manager add-in (developed by me) supports VS 2010+ and VS 2008.
I like the alternative approach proposed by the 'Tidy Tabs' extension.
Rather than providing you with a mechanism to manage billions of tabs, it helps by automatically monitoring and cleaning up your tabs to only display the ones that you have most recently been using.
It's free too. :)
From the extension page:
Tidy Tabs keeps your document well organized by closing tabs that are no longer being used. Tabs that have not been viewed in a configurable amount of time can be closed with a keyboard shortcut (CTRL+ALT+ESC) or closed automatically whenever you save a document.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/b80ab284-83f8-4022-bc78-95af126ba5f0
In Visual Studio 2010 you can drag tabs out to separate windows but you can not collect them together as additional tabbed elements. Is there a VS 2010 add-on to allow you to group your extra windows into tabs? It would be really nice to have a set of tabs on each of my monitors.
The best place to look is the Visual Studio Gallery for 2010 Extensions. If you are lucky someone else has already had the idea and created an extension (VSIX) for you.
Otherwise, why do you have a go at writing it yourself by grabbing a copy of the Visual Studio 2010 SDK and read the Getting Started Guide.
UPDATE: I just stumbled on this awesome Visual Studio Extension that may do want you are looking for: Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef
Productivity Power Tools does it, and it's free. The feature is called Document Well.
Camarades,
My Visual Studio is in trouble in keyboard. I am working normally, when suddenly my keyboard loses its configuration, so where is the "" becomes "/".
Someone can tell me what would be a possible solution? (Yes, I know something is hazy).
Or has left some Pachter fix for problems like this.
Grateful for any help.
Success for all.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Version 10.0.30319.1 RTMRel
My guess is that you accidently change keyboard input language, see Visual Studio appears to randomly adopt American keyboard layout