In VS 2010 when you drag one control to your page (left mouse button is still clicked and cursor is on the page area) so the toolbox tab (from your left side - and auto hide) is still there and it seems auto hide not work.
But in VS 2008 everything was ok!
What is the problem about that / I am looking for this answer because when you drag something on your page you can not see the right element for dropping that control !!!
Any idea?
If you drag a control from the toolbox to somewhere within the design canvas but not onto your form, the toolbox will remain visible despite auto-hide being enabled. Notice the mouse cursor will have the "NO" symbol (circle with a line through it) while over the canvas area. Once you successfully place the control onto the form somewhere, the toolbox will auto-hide.
Autohide is working well for me, however, if you are having a problem you can try the following:
try pinning and then unpinning the toolbox
if you want to drop the control in a certain area .. select that area (one left click on the element where you wanna add the control) and then double click on the control you want to add and it will be added to where you want it and then you can place it
if that didn't work .. (and it should) .. try repairing MS VS2010
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For some reason the Object Drop Down Combo Box (The middle combo box on navigation bar) no longer works in Visual Studio. I recently installed the latest update, but the problem occurred after that.
(I have already looked at the Question regarding multiple monitors - the problem occurs regardless of what monitor I use)
I have tried a Visual Studio Repair
I have reset ALL VS settings
I have deleted the Local/Roaming folders
I have checked and un-checked the Navigation bar tool setting
Nothing works...
Symptom description -
Load a simple VB Form Project and add a textbox
In the center combo nav drop down, select the very first item (Form1 Events)
The far right combo does NOT fill with the events for that selection.
Or, in the code window, select some code in an object event like TextBox1_MouseUp -
The center nav combo dropdown WILL show the TextBox1 as the selection and the far right combo will display the events correctly.
Click on any other object in the center combo - nothing happens, no list of events is shown.
I am willing to do a complete uninstall and re-install, but it takes hours due to lousy internet connections in Japan, so this is my last hope for an answer before I waste an entire day...
Thanks.
This has now been fixed in v16.10.3
I use a color theme with a very dark background, which works great except that VS2010 uses the default insertion point mouse cursor when the mouse is over the editor pane, and that cursor is black — making it nearly impossible to see (literally impossible if the background is actually black as opposed to just very dark).
Is there a straightforward way to tell VS2010 to use a light version of the insertion point mouse cursor instead?
Things I've tried so far:
I installed the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor (which enables theming of the rest of the UI, as opposed to just the editor) in hopes that it would do this automatically if I used one of its dark themes, but no such luck.
I tried using different mouse pointers in Control Panel, but even though the cursor changed in some cases (for instance, if I picked one of the "very large" schemes), it was still black and so nearly invisible.
Edit: In Windows 10 this setting is in a different place:
Open settings
Click Personalization
Click Themes in the right sidebar
Click Mouse Cursor
Select the Scheme called – Windows Black (system scheme)
Click Apply
Original Answer:
I have the same problem in Visual Studio 2012 (Dark Theme) on a Windows 7 guest system running inside VirtualBox.
I have found a slightly better solution:
Basically, you can globally change the cursor scheme:
Open Control panel
Open Appearance and Personalization
Open Personalization
Finally – click Change mouse pointers.
Select the Scheme called – Windows Black (system scheme)
Makes your cursor nicely visible against the dark background while also working great on light backgrounds.
Credit: http://www.marcusoft.net/2011/08/my-mouse-pointer-disappeared-in-visual.html
My temporary solution is that I'm using a custom "text select" cursor on the system as a whole, which I did by finding one that wasn't too outrageous, and then:
Windows 7 and earlier:
Open Control Panel
Open the Mouse applet
Choose the Pointers tab
Select "Text Select" in the list
Click the Browse button and choose the cursor file
Windows 8:
Click the Start button
Type "mouse click" and wait
Choose "Change mouse click settings" -- this gets you the old Mouse Properties dialog box
Choose the Pointers tab
Select "Text Select" in the list
Click the Browse button and choose the cursor file
Of course, this changes the cursor globally, not just in VS2010, and so I have to use one that works against both light and dark backgrounds (in my case, for now, the one from the DeepSky set on deviantart — only the text select one, not the full set).
It appears this is still a problem with Visual Studio and Windows 10 in 2021 (I keep updating this every year...).
Working off of szalski's and T. J. Crowder's solution, it can be changed in Windows 10:
Start button
Type "mouse"
Choose "Mouse settings" from the results
In the Mouse settings window, click on "Additional mouse options" under "Related settings"
Choose the Pointers tab in the new window that opens up
Select "Text Select" in the list
Click the Browse button and choose the cursor you want
As pointed out by Brad Bamford, "beam_r" is a good choice since it looks very similar to the standard pointer, but also has a white outline. I can finally see the cursor in Visual Studio.
You can change the cursor, so you don't mess up the theme you want in Windows.
I made two I Beams that I made available in a github project:
DarkThemeBeam
Use those, if you want.
I hope that's easier and less invasive on your eyes than changing the larger desired theme you want to work in.
Press the Windows button or click Start Menu
Type : mouse
Select: Mouse settings
From the Mouse settings window select: Additional mouse options, from the window, right top.
Select: Pointers tab from Mouse Properties new window.
Now select: Text Select, under customize level.
Click the Browse button and choose your desire cursor.
It's working!
On the right of VS2010, there is normally a group of tabs, like the solution explorer and the property pages tab. It seems that the tab to access the property pages is missing.. How can I get it back? This must be easy.
The tabs will only appear if more than one window is docked at the same spot. If you don't see them then you either have undocked the window or closed them. Closing be the more likely case here, use the View menu to get them back. Or Windows + Reset Window Layout if you're completely lost.
Click on the Project name in the Solution Explorer and then press F4. The Properties window/tab should now appear.
Note that this Properties tab is different than the one shown if you right click the project name and then click "Properties."
Under View Dropdown menu, should be there.
Or right click on the app in design mode and click properties.
Close your visual studio and open the Visual Studio Command Prompt (from window Start -> Programs -> Visual Studio XXXX -> Visual Studio XXXX Tools) and enter "devenv /setup".
If you want to dock one below the other it's a two step operation. You need to start with the two windows not connected together at all.
1) dock the first window on the right hand side of the application. This should fill all of the vertical space available.
2) make sure the second window is floating then drag it towards the first. When the arrows appear move the mouse over the down arrow and the second window should snap below the first.
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?
right click menu
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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
Does anyone know how to move the "Solution Explorer" tab in Visual Studio 2005? It's on the left, and I can't move it to the right.
Thanks,
Alan
Click on the title bar, and drag it to the right portion of the screen. Eventually you'll see a compas like structure popup. Make sure you hover over the right area and let go of the mouse button. That will bind it to the right side.
You Can go to tab Windows -> Reset Windows Layout. Other options like Dockable, Floating and Tabbed Document are also their.
you move the whole solution explorer while its floating on the screen. Right click--> Tabbed Document.
right click again --> Vertical tab
To complement what the accepted answer gives, if you want it to look like this (on the left side):
Do the exact same procedure, and then after it has attached to the left side, click on "Auto Hide":
This way, it will stay visible on the toolbar.
This is an old question, but for anyone looking to change tab placement in Visual Studio 2019, right click the open tab, select [Set Tab Layout] then a position: Left, Top, Right.
You can only drag the panel by the title bar to the central compass overlay while it is pinned and not set to auto hide. You can click the pin icon in the title bar to toggle this.
Go to View-> Appearance -> Move Side Bar Left