I'm used to Visual Studio 2008, where you can drag text in the code editor just fine.
Now I'm on VS 2010, and when I try to select just two characters in the code the editor doesn't select anything at all, but if I drag mouse over the third character, it selects all three characters.
Maybe it's a feature I don't understand, but it starts bothering me.
Is there a way to make selecting characters with mouse work in the old way, as in VS 2008?
I have tried uninstall that plugin and reset vs settings that dont't help.
There is video of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wNFQxpCAEQ
PS: Im running Windows 8 RP x64.
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This is a really odd one that has been annoying me for some time, I use CodeRush and Refactor Pro at home and at work, since the switch to Visual Studio 2010 I have been unable to use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+') for the Refactor/CodeRush context menu:
For a long time I blamed VS2010 or CodeRush/Refactor! Pro for the issue and just worked round it with the mouse. At some point in time I realised that if Notepad++ was open the shortcut key didn't work.
Depending on what type of file is loaded in Notepad++ alters the effect; for example, if I have an XML/HTML/XAML file open a tag and all of it's children are removed.
I have just tried Notepad++ v5.8.6 with some source files opened and IDETools 10.2.4 in Visual Studio 2010, Windows 7 and everything seems to work fine - the CTRL+' shortcut works as expected. Probably you might want to change the shortcut to something similar like CTRL+1 in the DevExpress\Options\IDE\Shortcuts options page.
I've just started up visual studio express 2008 for the first time in 6 months, and the when I expand the properties window, all the name/values are rendered as squares. Event the ellipses (...) are squares! The weird thing is, all other text is OK, the code, toolbar, menus etc.
What font/character set does visual studio use for this text? and why is only the propert window affected?
That's fairly odd. I haven't seen a bug like that yet.
If it is a font issue, you can fix it by resetting all of your settings. Go to Tools -> Import / Export Settings. Reset all settings and pick your profile. Rebuild and Restart Visual Studio and see if the problem goes away.
My second guess would be to check the file encoding. Visual Studio should work fine with most file encodings but it's not bad to sanity check. Click on File -> Save As and set the text type to be ASCII. Then restart Visual Studio and see if the problem goes away.
My install of Visual Studio 2008 does not support IE style back and forward navigation withe the mouse in the C# code editor.
Searches show that multiple people have run into this problem but I have yet to find a correct solution.
There's even a VS add-in hack just to work around the "bug".
Any idea why this functionality fails for some users and how to fix it?
You can mitigate the problem by AutoHotKey tool (free, open source).
Let's assume your Visual Studio 2008 has these editor commands and their respective shortcuts:
View.NavigateBackward = Ctrl+-
View.NavigateForward = Ctrl+Shift+-
You should be able to verify these shortcuts in keyboard options. Verified? Let's proceed.
So will you be just fine if your mouse will send these keyboard shortcuts if the Visual Studio's main window is active?
Then install the tool and add the following two mappings:
XButton1::^-
XButton2::^+-
These correspond to above keyboard shortcuts: ^ = Ctrl, + = Shift, - = -
Using AutoHotKey icon in notification area, reload definition file you just updated. Now your mouse buttons should produce the above shortcuts. Test them.
If they work for you in Visual Studio editor, you can limit them only to Visual Studio main window, otherwise they work across the entire desktop:
SetTitleMatchMode, RegEx
#IfWinActive, .*- Microsoft Visual Studio
XButton1::^-
XButton2::^+-
#IfWinActive
Feel free to adjust title-matching regex if needed.
Do not forget to reload definitions file to apply any changes you made.
Bonus:
And here are some other handy operations if you are holding Shift or Ctrl:
(You have those mouse buttons, let's use them... for commands across the entire desktop.)
+XButton1::^c
+XButton2::^v
^XButton1::^x
^XButton2::^z
(Letters must be lowercase, because uppercase means Shift+letter.)
(And always make sure you are running AHK elevated (as administrator.))
Enjoy!
Visual Studio 2008 is an editor and the apps built in it can also be built in any later version such as Visual Studio 2015. Not trying to be flippant, but the fix is to move to a later version of Studio. If money is a factor look into the Community version. (See Free Dev Tools - Visual Studio Community 2015)
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 and I'm used to C# where when Intellisense pops up, I select what I want by hitting enter and it doesn't skip down to the next line. In VB when I hit the enter on intellisense, I jump to the next line. Does anyone know where the setting for this intellisense option might be?
Hitting the SPACEBAR or TAB key in VB does the same thing that ENTER does in C#.
I know that this doesn't really answer your question, but intellisense is designed to work so that you just push the "next" character to choose the highlighted item (such as open parenthesis, period, semi-colon, etc).
I was bothered by this behavior in VB as well. This will be fixed in the next version of Visual Studio with a new setting for enter-key behavior.
https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/pull/11873
Corrected link: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/pull/11769
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