We just recently transitioned over to VS 2013 with TFS, and I noticed that the visual Queue for new files in a solution is much smaller then it was in the previous version. You get a tiny little plus sign which is very difficult to see.
Does anybody know if there is a setting to highlight new files within a solution in a more obvious way than the tiny little plus sign?
The item above the selected item in the image, is a new file. As you can see, that little plus sign is really tough to notice.
Option 1:
Look for the Pending Changes Filter functionality in the Solution Explorer. I am attaching the before and after pictures.
Before applying the filter: http://imgur.com/sdX1QKJ
After applying the filter: http://imgur.com/4oglBhw
Option 2: Use the Team Explorer - Pending Changes Window.
(I apologize for not posting the images inline. I don't have enough reputation points)
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In Visual Studio 2019, how can someone disable the auto-suggestion list being auto-resized?. This:
It is very very annoying when navigating through the suggested members and you miss-click the vertical scrollbar or another point inside the list due the width was auto-resized... this feature is not well-done for the visual sense of the human being, it is not productive for me.
I can understand the intention is to not occupy much visible area in the text editor when the list contains long member names but that logic is absurd because the list width will be sized to its maximum width if you want to pick that long member name, so... totally useless and annoying for me.
Disable suggestions list auto-resize on Visual Studio 2019?
I am afraid that you cannot get what you want in this issue so far. And VS IDE does not have such option to control it so far.
The purpose of the automatic adjustment of the scroll box is to facilitate the user to visually see the full name of the method and then confirm and use it. It is from the perspective of the convenience of developing code.
According to your needs, you need a better visual experience and the best suggestion is to add an option on VS IDE to force maintain the size. So we recommend that you could suggest your feature on our User Voice Forum
In addition, when you finish writing such feature, you can share the link here with us and anyone who is interested in this will vote for you so that it will get more attention from Microsoft.
Hope it could help you.
Document tabs in Visual Studio are sized to the name of the file as it appears on the tab. This means that the size of each tab that is open is contingent on the size of the text of the file name.
Is there a setting buried somewhere that will allow me to keep all tabs the exact same width?
Why does this matter?
For those that must know a reason for this request, I often work in sizable projects which someone else originally created. While researching functionality of code, I'll often open up over 10 documents, tracing paths or researching behavior. When I'm finished with my research, I'll often have to close the previous 3-7 tabs to get back to my original document and unclutter my work area.
I know this seems like a minor nuisance but since every file name is different, you can't keep your mouse in one location and click the the left-button 3-7 times in rapid succession to close all pertinent documents. You have to float the mouse back and forth, for every tab, because of the variance in tab size.
I'd prefer to just set it so that all tabs are the same size, regardless of the length of the file name. Can this be done with reasonable effort?
I am using Visual Studio 2015, so I would like an answer for that version of VS. However, once I upgrade to VS 2017, I'd like to make the same change to that environment.
If the answer for either version is different, I would prefer an answer for both instances of VS.
You can try Productivity Power Tools.
The feature "Vertical tabs" is what you need.
Document tabs are shown vertically, allowing you to fit more tabs than are normally visible when shown horizontally.
For VS 2015 https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioProductTeam.ProductivityPowerTools2015
For VS 2017 https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioProductTeam.ProductivityPowerPack2017
Updated:
Productivity Power Tools also support customizing min/max tab width. You can find it from Tools>Options...>Productivity Power Tools>Custom Document Well>Advanced
In VS2022 this is built in under Tools-> Environment -> Tabs and Windows
I recently upgraded to VS ultimate 2013, as it was free for my msdn License.
I'm playing around with the codemap function, and I for the most part think its very good. But what I dont like is when I add a new function to the map, it kinda blows up to one of the default views.
Is it possible to disable this?
All I really want to acheive is to get the calls chronologically. From top to bottom.
I'm not sure what you mean by "blowing up the default views" but here are some hints:
Have a look at the Layout menu. Perhaps disable "Incremental Layout" or re-layout by choosing one of the options (top to bottom etc.)
How do you add new functions to the map? Do you drag and drop from Solution Explorer? What do you expect to happen?
Upgrade to VS 2015. We've made many improvements to CodeMap in VS 2015. You can use VS 2015 side by side with VS 2013.
In the bottom of my Visual Studio there is a little icon (see image)
It is a moving magnify glass (I think it's a magnify glass, I'm sure it's moving)
It's moving all the time (it's moving, in a circle shape, and the background 'block' shape is growing larger and smaller), but there is no hover text, nor can I click it...
I'm afraid of moving icons when I don't know what they do.....
Anyone know what it means/does?
EDIT:
when I click on F5, it's shown besides the VS build icon:
That's the predefined SBAI_Find icon in Visual Studio's Status Bar Animation Region. Any extension could be triggering it (or even Visual Studio itself). There's more information here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/library/microsoft.visualstudio.shell.interop.ivsstatusbar.animation(v=vs.100).aspx
There's no way to tell what is triggering it by your question only. To find the culprit, I'd try disabling all extensions and enabling them one-by-one.
Notice it shows when using the standard Find in Visual Studio (if you want a lengthy operation to check it, use Find In Files)
In Simple Words , It Is a Search Engine Build By VB.net To Find Content According To The User's Requirement Needed And The Section Selected
Note: Different Section Will Lead To Different Search Result
It simply means, it is trying to find and link all the files. You should not be too much bothered about it and it is not from any of the third party extension.
I have a question about Visual Studio 2013.
I just installed it and it seems pretty good because of the new features.
But there is something I do not like:
Is it possible somehow removing these 3 x buttons ? Or just one of them?
Yes you can hide them.
Close Visual Studio.
Open regedit and find MainWindowFrameControls.
For example I want to remove:
1) Sign In
2) Notifications
So I need to delete:
{304ee989-b7c9-46c8-aa48-f080bc47cee0}
{73988e61-7e30-4e87-b891-23b5e460db21}
You can also delete them and it will work (you can remove feedback also by this way).
Although sometime VS recreates that keys. But solution is very easy - instead of deleting make right click and go to Permissions, add Everyone - Deny - Read. So now nobody will be able to read that keys including VS.
You can remove it to go to original state by the same way.
At the moment the social features don't seem to have any corresponding options you can use to disable them.
There is a method that relies on using Visual Commander extension to repeatedly hide some of the buttons (as Visual Studio
often recreates them), which seems like the closest you'll get for the moment.
http://visualstudioextensions.vlasovstudio.com/2013/10/19/hide-sign-in-and-feedback-buttons-in-the-visual-studio-2013-main-window/ - You can view the code in the "Extensions" section.
Unless you're desparate to get rid of them, you're probably better of trying to ignore them, hopefully an option to hide them will become available.
You can use the Disable Social Features extension, which will programmatically hide both the 'smiley' buttons as well as your own name/photo from the front of Visual Studio.