For some reason my find window for Visual Studios in stuck open, I can't move, resize, minimize or close it. The top control bar is missing. Everything still works, but it is a huge pain to not be able to minimize it or close it. Any ideas of how to fix this?
Figured it out, I have dual monitors, one of them is connected through a USB to VGA converter. If any visual studios window is on that monitor, it wont render. I'm not sure why, but the solution is to just not put visual studios on that window.
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This might seem the very definition of a 1st World Problem but it's driving me nuts!
So the right-hand icon is my opened Visual Studio project, and to its left is the icon for Visual Studio 2022. In previous versions of Windows (10) and VS (2019) there was a single Visual Studio icon, which was either plain (no open VS projects) or decorated with a mark at the bottom to show that there was an open project. I'd like to return to that happy place but I can't figure out how. There is no property that I can find on the Taskbar nor in VS itself.
For me, this seems to be a Windows 11 bug. I have the same problem for another program than VS. After unpinning the old icon and pinning the new, the problem is solved for a few days until it occures again. Hope it will be fixed soon.
The answer (so far) seems to be, as #phuzi said, to unpin VS2022. I then closed the project and repinned VS 2022. There is now only one icon - result.
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
Hi I have been working with visual studio 2010 ultimate all day developing an asp.net webforms application.
I just realized that on the properties for controls window the button for events is missing , the one that looks like a thunderbolt.
An hour ago that button was there and now somehow it has disapeared and I can't figure out how to make it visible again.
I have tryed reseting the visual studio settings and reseting the computer but nothing worked
How can I get the button back?
I had the same problem. This helped me.
1.Restart visual studio 2010.
2.Click and select a control in markup page(.aspx)(like
3.After selecting , Click "View" in menu and select "Property window".
Check the property box, Thunderbolt ll be available. It just happened for me!
If the above solution not working go on with this!
1.Select design view in markup(.aspx)
2.Select any individual control like a button or label..
3.Now, you will be able to see a ">" button on the right side? Click it.
4.Remember to select only one control./.now check your property window! Whoohoo..
Actually while the solution above works, it puts you through more steps than you need. You can resolve this famous disappearing thunderbolt by simply clicking on Design view, and then clicking back on Source view, then clicking again to select the control in source view.
The Thunderbolt icon and events for the control will magically reappear.
You do not need to restart Visual Studio, and you do not need to select anything while in Design view.
And now, for my RANT about this annoying bug:
Even though this is easy to resolve, it is a MAJOR inconvenience to developers in my opinion, because we have to do this silly workaround all the freaking time.
This is in fact a BUG in Visual Studio. It has existed since at least Visual Studio 2010 (many users have reported it here and in MS forums across this and all later versions of VS). I have confirmed that this bug still exists in the latest build of Visual Studio 2022. So clearly MS has no plans to fix it.
[Rant Mode Off]
Cheers,-=Cameron
If I click on something (that is click and let go) in the solution explorer and move the mouse too quickly on two quickly or click on something else too soon, Visual Studio interpretes that as a move. I'm hooked up to Visual Source Safe, so most of the time it asks me if I'm sure. But every once in a while it doesn't, and I have no idea the file has been moved/copied. As a result I get compiler errors (or worse runtime issues) that are nearly impossible to track down. Is there a fix to this? Any suggestions? It is very annoying.
Try the VSCommands extension
They have a "Prevent accidental Drag & Drop in Solution Explorer" feature
I am using the Visual Studio 2010 RC. Sometimes when I am working on a code file, I would like to minimize it.
In Visual Studio 2008 I just switched to MDI mode. Then I could minimize. In 2010, I can undock the window by dragging the tab, and that gets me half way to MDI, but I see no way to minimize the window.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Update - Closely-related question: For those of you that used MDI, how are you getting by? I like to have 4 documents open at once, in a 2x2 matrix. For example I like to look at one controller/view pair while working on another, for the sake of comparison. Then, maybe I edit my repository file, and I want to get back to my 4 windows. This is where I would minimize. Anyone have a workaround? How have you adapted?
Update 2 - Vote up my suggestion if you want this feature:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/536110/please-offer-this-ultra-quick-alternative-to-a-minimize-feature-for-the-vs-2010-ide#
I think its disabled. I pressed Alt-Space in the undocked window and minimise was disabled.