On the Start Page for Visual Studio 2013, there is a section entitled "Announcements".
Underneath that section it says:
Stay current with announcements about Visual Studio. To see the announcements please enable dynamic content.
My question is simple: Where do I go to enable "dynamic content"?
There's also a section entitled Product Videos. Underneath it is the following message:
We have a lot of great content to show you, but we need your permission to keep it updated.
Is this also enabled if you enable "dynamic content"? Or is there another setting I need to enable?
In Visual Studio 2013, to enable the dynamic content that is displayed on the Start Page, do the following:
Tools -> Options
Under the Environment node, select "Startup"
Check the box to "Download content every:" and select your interval.
Click OK
Your content should immediately start to populate.
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A few months ago Visual Studio started popping up a permissions request for "Code Index Client Applications" from "Code Index API".
If I click on the "Report it here" link, I'm taken to another page that says it is from "AME.GBL".
I don't know what this is, so I always hit cancel. I have not noticed any kind of problems with not granting it what it wants, and I'm getting tired of it asking, so I'd like to try and remove whatever it is that is asking. I've tried disabling all my extensions, but it still asks. I have looked in the Visual Studio Installer's "Individual components" and also my Windows "Apps & features", but there is nothing with these names listed there. I have looked online but can't find anything about it.
Does anyone know what this is or how to get rid of it (or is there some reason why I should grant it permission)?
The dialog that pops up has changed slightly and I think it gives the answer:
You can read about Rich Code Navigation here or see a demo of it (primarily in Visual Studio Code) here. Note that the second link is from 2018, so in one form or another, this has been around for some time, but perhaps it has been off by default until a recent update?
At any rate, if you choose to disable Rich Code Navigation, you can do that under
Tools --> Options --> Environment --> Preview features
I did that and the permissions request dialog went away.
I created a custom user control "controls:MyControl" using xaml and winrt/c++. This control is part of a nuget package.
To test for further modification from user side, I added the package to a sample project. Now when I try to copy the template of custom control using "Edit template" and "Edit a copy" in VS 2022, the "Edit a copy" option seems to be disabled.
Please suggest if there needs to be any extra step done for copying the template of a custom control.
Also as a 2nd question, for some of my modified controls I am not able to copy the "Style" but "Template" only. Read through the documentations but couldn't get much help. It would be great if anyone could help with these 2 queries.
I was wondering if anyone has had any luck disabling the HTML element tooltips in Visual Studio 2015. I find them to be a real annoyance, especially when dragging/ctrl+dragging text around (they get in the way most the time). Here's a screenshot the feature in action (updated):
I Googled and was only able to find the post where the feature was announced, but no mentions of how to disable it. I checked my Visual Studio preferences and have "Auto list members" and "Parameter information" disabled for the HTML text editor.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Update (10/16/2015): I think this issue may be related to the Web Essentials package. I disabled the package and was able to make the tooltip show up, however, I don't currently have a computer with a default Visual Studio 2015 install to test my theory on. I updated the screenshot to reflect the actual tooltip I'm getting (the original one was the screenshot included in the linked blog post).
Try this:
Go to: Tools > Options... > Text Editor > HTML > General
In the 'Statement completion' section you will see an 'Auto list members' checkbox, uncheck it.
However, I'm not sure if the feature above reffers to an in-design html editing or will only affect in specific html development environment (editing an html file for example), so I'll give an additional solution:
Go to: Tools > Options... > Environment > Keayboard
Here, find the command Edit.ToggleCompletionMode and assign the keyboard shortcut that you desire.
Then just use it when you wish to toggle the auto completion of members (including html members I supose).
Update
Sorry If I confussed what you want, because with the absence of auto completion it will remove existance of tooltips but I don't know if you need auto completion suggestions or not.
Anyways, for tooltips you could try doing the same procedure I explained in the images above but with the "Parameter Information" checkbox and/or the corresponding keyboard shortcut, Edit.ParameterInfo. Because seems that html element tooltips are treated as parameter info.
This was annoying the Hell out of me as well & I found that ElektroStudios' solution wasn't suitable in my case. I'm fairly sure that they are VS-native (definitely not Web-Essentials or ReSharper).
For VS2015 at least, the offending tool-tips are located within the file:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Web Tools\Schemas\1033\HTML\html.loc
Deleting the contents of this file has "disabled" the tool-tips for me, although I can't say whether this will be a permanent fix.
I am working on Visual Studio Isolated Shell Project.
I saw on MSDN that in order to remove Options Pages, I have to edit the .pkgundef file.
I disabled the Database Tools package
// Visual Database Tools Package
[$RootKey$\Packages\{220A4C17-7E7C-4663-BBCC-5E607C6543CD}]
The package is gone, I don't see any window or menu command for that. But when I launch the Options dialog from Tools menu, I see the navigation item and when I choose that, I see the "Error page"
How do I hide the navigation item?
I found the solution on MSDN Forums.
In my specific scenario, I had to add the following key to .pkgundef file.
[$RootKey$\ToolsOptionsPages\Database Tools]
I'm doing some web development and when I push the debug button it starts off with the selected tab and it is really annoying because it will throw errors because those pages are not meant to be ran at first. Is there a way to have visual studio always run a default page first?
Right click the page you want to be the start page and select "Set As Start Page:"
Check out the Web Application's Properties Window, Web Tab. It has a box where you can enter the URL to load upon starting debugging.
That is; Right-click on the project item in the Solution Explorer, choose 'Properties', then click the Web tab, and select the proper option for your needs.
You can also right-click on your desired start page and select Set as Start Page.