I suspect that I turned on yellow whitespace highlighting with some unknown key combination. But now, duly annoyed by the yellow highlighting, I would like to know how I might turn it off. All searches so far have been fruitless and I've never seen this behavior before.
Hit ctrl+f and delete what you are currently searching for. I just realized I had hit tab in the search box, so all tabs were highlighted in yellow.
I noticed these yellow highlights after installing
Menees VS Tools Extension for Visual Studio.
Disabling this extension also disables the highlights.
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Sometimes my Visual Studio IDE tries to "help" me with this strange behavior:
(look at the red border and gray tooltip about Tab suggestion)
but in reality it's very annoying and I make more mistakes if I suddenly press the Tab button.
How can I turn off this sugestion / help of Visual studio?
It seems the problem is global. Vote here if you want Microsoft to fix it soon:
The red AI highlighting with the arrow and tab to replace is not working correctly
I opened Visual Studio 2022 today and got these symbols on my left sidebar.
I didn't enable those, they just appeared. If i click on them, they show this:
They are really annoying, especially since the red arrows appear on the right sidebars in nearly the same color as error indicators.
I couldn't find an option to turn these off, or find a solution online. Does anyone know how to get rid of them?
You will want to turn off Git Line Staging support.
Go to Tools → Options → Environment → Preview Features and uncheck the "Git line-staging support" option and restart the IDE.
Visual Studio Version 17.3 turned this feature on by default. By turning it off, Visual Studio will revert back to having the "green and yellow" change indicator bars instead of these Git ones. It will also remove those red arrows you speak of.
I am using MS Productivity Power Tools extension and have my tabs aligned vertically. I like to pin the files I am working more frequently, so they are at the top. However, recently when I debug my solution there is a toggle arrow section that appears.
If I do not toggle this arrow then all of the files that are not pinned are inaccessible and VS behaves very sporadic. I am guessing I must have hit some key combination that turned this on. I do not have this issue in all of my solutions.
Does anyone know how to turn this off, Google had not yielded any useful info so far.
At Visual Studio 2010, there will be a red dot(s) on scroll bar indicated where your code has errors. Also a other color dots for other message etc.
But after installed Visual Studio 2012, I cannot see this feature anywhere, tried toolbar-options, nowhere to found.
Am I miss something? Or Microsoft just removed this feature.
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Sample of Visual Studio 2010
And Visual Studio 2012, where these nice little dot candy go?
The dots you see on the scrollbar are definitely a feature of the "Productivity Power Tools" Extensions "Enhanced Scrollbar".
Link
There are 3 Modes to enhance the Scrollbar, your Screenshot displays the first (default) one.
Unfortunately, there seems to be no equivalent for VS2012. Or does anyone know of an extension that improves the scrollbar like that?
Is it possible you were using the jetbrains resharper tool? That provides the feature you describe, but I don't recall ever seeing it in visual studio
Have you got code errors? :P
Check the editor settings out, I am pretty sure it is there it might just be off by default.
As you add code and build your solution, you may see different-colored wavy underlines (known as squiggles) appearing in your code. These marks notify you of problems Visual Studio has detected in your code. For example, red squiggles denote syntax errors, blue squiggles denote compiler errors, green squiggles denote warnings, and purple squiggles denote other types of error. For example, they are used for "rude" edits in Visual Basic, which are changes that are made during Edit and Continue and that will result in compiler errors.
You can see the default color for each error and warning squiggle in the Tools/Options/Environment/Fonts and Colors dialog box. Look for Syntax Error, Compiler Error, Warning, and Other Error.
From here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/efc4xwkb%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
A little while ago I managed to get Visual Studio 2008 (C++) into a state where, if I would select a keyword (or any symbol for that matter), by either double clicking on it or highlighting it, all other instances of that symbol within the current file would become highlighted too.
This was a really useful feature.
Since then it's gone away, and I don't know how to get it back.
Please help.
#Sander - that'll be it. Thanks!
I think you've installed RockScroll. It also lights them up in the graphical scrollbar (its main feature)
I use MetalScroll, it's like RockScroll only better; it doesn't interfere with Resharper (a VS must-have) and you can set it up to only highlight if you hold down 'alt' when you double-click.
There is something called "WordLight" by Mikhail Nasyrov.
An add-in for Visual Studio 2008 that highlights all occurrences of a selected text.
It searches and highlights substrings that are currently selected in a text editor.
Can be found at below link
WordLight
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MikhailNasyrov.WordLight