What is the meaning of the star icon overlay that appears in Visual Studio 2022's Autos Window? (Could not find anything even remotely related :-( In fact, what do the icons mean? I guess they are IntelliSense icons.)
When I'm using Visual Studio and I go on the properties window, its really hard to browse for something.
It has this black weird layout which only displays when I'm using dark mode and also gets worse by opening some tabs.
I'm using VS 2015, but this happened to me on VS 2012 that being the reason why I upgraded to VS 2015.
I've tried changing to custom themes to see if it would help but it didn't.
Image of glitch
So I downloaded Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise for Windows 10 for a class. I'm able to code and debug just fine, however if I press any of the toolbar buttons (File, Project, git, tools, etc) VS will freeze for a second, then crash. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?
I'm using Visual Studio 2015 Professional on a Windows 10 machine with an Intel integrated GPU and high resolution Display Port monitors. DPI in Windows is set to 100% and I haven't done much with the computer besides using Visual Studio.
Suddenly when I came back to my computer (some of) the texts in Visual Studio were blurry, including items in the Solution Explorer as well as menus. Just everything blurry.
If I hover something the hovered something will become sharp again but moving the window doesn't make the text sharp but makes the blur change.
How to make the texts in Visual Studio sharp again?
I am experiencing a weird behavior of visual studio 2008 and VS 2010. I had only Visual Studio 2008 on my machine having OS windows Server 2008 R2, at point i did some window layout reset and post that visual studio's window layout is acting strange, it is getting docked or un-docked if i debug a solution. I re-install the visual studio 2008 but problem still exists...Strangely i have newly installed Visual 2010 pro and it seems to have the same issue. I am wondering which system file got corrupted and y it is only with Visual Studios. Please help.
This is normal behavior, actually, for all versions of Visual Studio. There is nothing wrong with your computer or your installation.
Visual Studio has at least two different window layout modes. One of them is the design-time mode, and the other one is the debugging mode.
When you start debugging, the environment switches to the debug mode. In the default configuration, that will cause windows to rearrange themselves (some that were hidden appear, some that were visible disappear, others just change position). into a layout that is deemed "optimal" for debugging code.
The idea is that different window layouts are likely to be optimal for different purposes. In design mode, I might want the Toolbox and Properties windows to be visible. I don't need those at all in debug mode, and would rather devote my screen space to the Immediate, Output, and Auto Variables windows instead.
It can be confusing, because you have to rearrange your windows twice, once for each mode. The good news is that any changes you make will "stick", meaning that they will be saved and re-used each time you enter that mode.
If you really don't like it, just arrange your environment so that it is identical in both modes.
Related: Can I save the window layout in Visual Studio 2010/2012/2013?