Within visual Studio is there a way to display the location of a mouse with respect to the form you editing?
On the status bar it shows the size of the form you are working on. is there a way to have it show where the mouse is instead?
Thanks
Thanks for your input given, I have come to the conclusion that Visual Studio 2010 doesn't support this option. They list the size of objects(as informed to me by Hans Passant comment), and it can show them the location of the object, but it can't show where your mouse is in respect to the main GUI you are working on.
You can move the object around and view the location of the object, but you can't just move your mouse around.
Thanks for your help
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I was making a form on visual studio and didn't realise that my resolution was at 300% as I was working off a TV, all my items appeared scrunched together so I reset them in the correct positions however now some of them are off the edges of the form and I cant stretch it past a certain point in order to move them back. Is there a way I could get them without having to remake it?
What version of Visual Studio are you using? In the latest versions you can use the Document Outline pane/window (View->Other Windows->Document Outline, Ctrl-Alt-T may also display it).
In that window, with the form displayed, it will list all the controls in the form. Find the ones you need, right-click on them and select Properties.
Now the Properties window should be showing the properties for that control. You should now be able to edit the Location there to adjust where the control is posistioned.
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.
Used to have that extension under Visual Studio 2010 but I can't find it again.
The extension provide the following helper :
When hovering mouse over a type in the code editor a small window would pop-up and show members inside the type, saving the hassle to open the file to see what members that type contains.
You might be talking about Solution Navigator feature of Productivity Power Tools.
Solution Navigator also provides interactive tooltips in C# and VB code (replacing the default “quick info” tooltips) that give you the same kind of data, but right at your fingertips.
Microsoft in their infinite wisdom have seen fit to remove the useful "Draw Grid" and "Snap to Grid" checkboxes in the report properties dialog that were in VS 2005 but are not in VS 2008. I'm assuming they put that functionality elsewhere but I can't find it after going through what seems like every menu option available. Does anybody know how to turn on the gridlines?
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You absolutely sure you're using VS 2008? - looks like the 2005 dialog to me
There´s no how to do it, microsoft just took it off, because now the objects align with other objects, and you have 3 options to move the objects now, with mouse, by selecting the object and moving with your arrows in keyboard, which moves around 0,30 cm, and by holding ctrl and pressing arrows, which is more precisely.
There´s a lot of people complaining about that, maybe they will put this functionality back, I don´t know....
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If you right click off to the right of your report and select properties you will find Draw grid and Snap to Grid
I am wondering if anyone knows how to pull this off. Here goes.
I have a multi monitor setup, and I maximize Visual Studio to both windows. I create a new vertical document tab control, so that I have one document tab control in each physical screen. This is fine.
Now, I want to be able to make them work as if they were connected. I want to have the designer on one side, and the code related to the displayed designer on the other window.
I'd like it to have the following functionality:
If a item is double clicked on the solution explorer, open designer/code in both tabs.
When a document is selected in either pane, open appropriate file in the other pane.
Make the designer view refresh on edit, or periodically.
Any ideas on how I could pull this off?
Try to check (wait) for VS 2010 (beta now). There should be multi monitor support.