Hi everyone, I have a weird problem I can't figure out how to solve. I inherited a co-worker's computer, and on his visual studio 2005 in the command window, when I use the 'of' command, the auto-complete window that opens appears to grow to the left rather than to the right. This makes it impossible to see the start of any of the strings, because I keep the command window on the left side of my screen. This never used to happen on my old machine. He also had all his context menus opening to the left, but I fixed that in control panel and it didn't do anything to this. Restarting the computer didn't help. Any thoughts?
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This is not a coding question, this is a problem I frequently encounter in the Visual Studio IDE. My mouse clicks are often ignored if I work fast. Usually it happens when I click on a variable name, the studio starts loading a tooltip or a highlighter for that variable and I immediately click on another variable or any other place in the editor window - the click will be ignored. Has anyone experienced anything like this?
This started happening around 2 years ago, don't remember exactly when, but it was right after a new version of the Studio was released.
I have installed Visual Studio recently but I can't use it. The program opens but I can't click on anything. It looks like the whole window is inactive (gray icon and text in top left corner). I have tried to reinstall it, however, that doesn't work. And if I click on the window, a sound appears (but it's not the error one, probably a warning one). Any suggestions?
edit: I have to close it through task manager. I can't even close it by clicking on the VS 2015 icon at Windows bar and selecting "close program" item in menu
edit2: If I click on the VS2015 window and then type on my keyboard, the weird "dong" sound appears. Same if I just click on the window. However, sometimes I can navigate using keyboard and therefore open window for starting new project. In this window I can use mouse absolutely normally, however, if I click on the OK button, the window quickly close and reopen again. It won't create a new project. So I'm still stuck on the welcome screen.
edit3: Another interesting thing I found. Now when I click on the OK button this error message appears. Should I reinstall it again (for 3rd time), and hope that this time it will be installed right?
PS: I'm sorry for my English - I'm not a native speaker
I had the same problem, it can't be solved by re-install VS2015. It was solved after I TRULY uninstall VS2015 by the tool: https://github.com/Microsoft/VisualStudioUninstaller/releases
So I've seen a couple of questions about Visual Studio's Ctrl+Tab but none of them were referring to my problem
My Visual Studio will randomly start acting funny. Sometimes, when I hit on Ctrl+Tab to change tab, the navigation pane appears for half a second an disappears. If I hold Ctrl+Tab, it'll just appear and disappear constantly, disappearing too early to even switch one tab. When it disappears it gives the keyboard focus back to whichever document I was on (so no other program actually intercepts the focus)
Then it will randomly accept my Ctrl+Tab and stay on screen once every X tries for some reason.
I double-checked my Visual Studio parameters (which have never changed) and the shortcuts are correctly set: Ctrl+Tab to Window.NextDocumentWindowNav and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to Window.PreviousDocumentWindowNav. I try removing them and resetting them with no success.
Anyone ever had this problem? I don't know what is intercepting my Ctrl+Ctrl+Tab. When I restart Visual Studio, it'll work fine again for a while until at some point Ctrl+Tab messes up again for no reason.
Anyone ever had this bug? Any tips on how to figure out what it's from and how to fix it? I'm on Visual Studio 2013. If it's any help, I also have Resharper 8.2.1 with it
Thanks!
EDIT
A few extra details:
Disabling Resharper doesn't remove the problem, still happens
I tried setting the NextDocumentPaneNav shortcut to another combination, bug still happened
So basically it's not another running program catching Ctrl+tab for some reason, it's literally Visual Studio not willing to show the navigation pane for more than a micro second
Anyone know why you cannot use Greenshot in Visual Studio? I hit the Screen Print button and it does not bring up the cross-hairs to drag my window size. Instead it just takes a plain windows screenshot. I looked for keyboard commands that might override it but didnt see anything at first glance. It works for every other program but not when Visual Studio is the active window.
It's because your visual studio is running in a higher level (permission wise) than your greenshot instance.
for a one time test, close Greenshot, and run it as administrator (right click on the file, run as administrator).
As a more permanent solution, you can just set the compatibility mode for the file to be run in admin mode, and then when it's started on start up it should capture your VS instances as well :).
Edit:
Just in case, you can easily figure out if anything else is wired to a shortcut by doing the following:
I am having an issue within the razor view in Visual Studio 2012. For some reason, most of the time when I am trying to edit a style property, my keyboard freezes and doesn't allow me to type anything.
<section style="height: 15[Try to edit here]">
For instance, trying to add in a zero or 'px' where the "Try to edit here" has been placed above is impossible as the keyboard freezes.
I have ReSharper 7.1 installed, I'm not sure if that is the culprit?
Closing the tab and re-opening it fixes the issue, but it then re-occurs later on (not sure if there is a pattern as to when it re-occurs)
This happens to me often. I just switch tabs and come back and it doesn't happen(for sometime of course :-)). It could be some kind of unresolvable bug although i would suggest that you uninstall ReSharper and try again to see if it gets fixed.
It happens to me and my other colleagues as well.
I have found it to be linked to having a floating code window(s). Unlike the floating window for something like Find Results (without a title bar), these appear almost like another instance of Visual Studio. These do not come to the front when the main Visual Studio Window is selected. I have found the keyboard stops responding only on these windows if there is a Find Results kind of floating window open. When the problem occurs, clicking on another VS window and come back sorts it.
In earlier versions of VS, any pulled code windows appeared without a thick title bar and window controls box.
I tried posting images of the two kinds of floating windows but don't have enough reputation to do so! Let me know if it is confusing and I'll try to clarify.
This may not be the only way for this problem to occur but this is what I've observed consistently in the last few weeks of using Visual Studio 2012. I have C# environment settings with Resharper 7 and Reflector installed.