I am curious about an issue in Coded UI Testing. For example I created a button named Button1. I did assertions and everything is fine. Then I changed this button's name to Button2. Now, do I have to write my assertions again or is Coded UI Test can suit in every different name change. Notice that I am not doing any input or parameter changes, I am just changing user interface. Thanks for your replies.
You should be able to change the test code easily to cope with a name change like that. Open the UI Map file in the UI Map editor; ie double-click on the uimap.uitest file in solution explorer. In the left hand pane expand the method and select the action that clicks the button. That should open the relevant control in the right hand pane. Alternatively just find the control for the button in the right pane. View the properties of the button and click on the ellipsis of the "(collection)" value of SearchProperties or the FilterProperties. One of the items shown should be the old name of the button, just rename it there.
I saved my project, but now I can't open it up in design view where you see all the buttons and stuff. Visual Studio 2012
Anyone know how?
You can double click directly on the .cs file representing your form in the Solution Explorer :
This will open Form1.cs [Design], which contains the drag&drop controls.
If you are directly in the code behind (The file named Form1.cs, without "[Design]"), you can press Shift + F7 (or only F7 depending on the project type) instead to open it.
From the design view, you can switch back to the Code Behind by pressing F7.
My problem, it showed an error called "The class Form1 can be designed, but is not the first class in the file. Visual Studio requires that designers use the first class in the file. Move the class code so that it is the first class in the file and try loading the designer again. ". So I moved the Form class to the first one and it worked. :)
From the Solution Explorer window select your form, right-click, click on View Designer. Voila! The form should display.
Click on the form in the Solution Explorer
Just Shift+f7 and Design view will open
OR
Right-click on your form file and Click on View Designer
I had this problem in Visual Studio 2019 today. When I right-clicked a form or user control in Solution Explorer, there was no "View Designer Shift-F7" option. The "View Code F7" option was there, but not the Shift-F7 option. I noticed that I could view and work on the design view for two forms, that I opened before the problem surfaced. But Visual Studio would not let me open more design views.
My solution is: In another project, in the same solution, I created a new Windows Form. Now the "View Designer Shift-F7" is visible and working for all forms and user controls, in all projects in my solution. I deleted the latest new form, and Design View still works. This solved the problem for me.
#Pierre's answer is not always applicable. When I messed up the files in the solution folder a bit (maybe add some code from outside which conflicts the GUI, I don't know precisely), then the Design View does not show up. In fact, my "Solution Explorer" is actually "Solution Explorer - Folder View". There is no object hierachy shown in the Solution Explorer, but just a file & folder view.
Class View is the panel you get to from the View menu which shows your solution's source files in a tree view grouped by project.
When you open it, it defaults to showing all your classes. But I usually want to see the outline of the particular class I am editing. So I have to bounce down through all tree control, getting carpal tunnel at every hop. At this rate, and I'll be waving ragged, arthritic claws before I finish this project - all thanks to Class View.
Searching using the search box at the top of the panel is not fast or direct enough.
I want to go direct to the class I have open so I can browse its members, and filter them using the preferences for this panel if necessary.
Anybody know how to make it default to showing the open class? Or, alternatively, some other way to do what I want, maybe an extension?
Couldn't find anything in help or Tools:Options.
You can change key shortcut that let you to open current class in class view. Tools -> Options -> Keyboard, command View.SynchronizeClassView
I'm not sure if this is right, but I can't view the "code behind" in VB6. Everytime I click the "view code" for an object (for example a button), the code does not display.
Can you help me with this or any workaround for this? I need to do a breakpoint on this.
I ran into the same issue. Could not view the code or the designer.
Seems that VB6 lost track of where things should be displayed, whether offscreen or not I could not tell. Kept clicking View Code and View Object, and neither worked.
Found the solution:
Attempt to open the code or designer that doesn't show up. (It will get opened, just won't show)
Select Window from the menu, then select Cascade.
You should then see the code/designer show up on the screen. No re-install or remove/add needed.
You may need to do this each time, even after saving the .vbp (project) file, upon re-opening VB6 the files once again are not showing for me, but Cascade makes them visible again. (Anyone have any ideas on how to make this more permanent?)
Enjoy!
You may remove the form which is not showing the code in the project explorer window and add it again by right clicking on the project explorer window then select Add -> Form -> (instead of selecting in "New" tab navigate on the "Existing" tab then choose the form you have just remove and try viewing its code again). It will work 100% :D
Double click your controls and the source code will be shown.
Go to this link.
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In Visual Studio, is there a window which shows list of methods in the active class? A small window like the Solution Explorer would be great. In Eclipse, there is one.
There's a drop down just above the code window:
It's called Navigation bar and contains three drop downs: first drop down contains project, second type and third members (methods).
You can use the shortcut Ctrl + F2 (move focus to the project drop down) and press Tab twice (move focus to the third drop down) to focus it, down arrow will expand the list.
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I found how to turn the drop down on as shown in the first answer (#ChrisF):
Go to Options->Text Editor->(your language)
and tick "Navigation bar" in the display section.
Since Visual Studio 2012, you can view the outline ( fields and methods) in the solution explorer by expanding the node corresponding to your file .
Shortcut to Navigation Bar is Ctrl+F2. Takes you to the types dropdown first. Press tab to go to method dropdown, and then enter on a method to go to that one.
ReSharper has a 'ReSharper | Windows | File Structure' window, which is used for visualizing current code file structure.
Resharper has the File Structure window which is very similar to eclipse outline view. Originally answered in:
Visual Studio 2012: List of all Methods in class
Resharper help:
http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/webhelp/Reference__Windows__File_Structure_Window.html
Despite it's an old question maybe this answer help you as helped me.
you can download codemaid extension from here : codemaid website
it has a lot of functionality that you may find in their website.
the one that is related to this question is code digging
Visualize and navigate through the contents of your C# and C++ files from a tree view hierarchy. Quickly switch between different sorting methods to get a better overview. Drag and drop to reorganize the code. See McCabe complexity scores and informative tool tips.
in other words it give you ability to see the methods and properties and also reorganize them just with drag and drop. it's my everyday use extension
There is no direct equivalent to the Outline View in Eclipse. The closest thing I've found is the Class View, which lists all classes and their members/methods. There is a search box at the top to narrow the selection.
In Visual Studio 2019, there is the "Go To Member" action located in Edit - Go To that is mapped by default to ALT+\. I think this was added in Visual Studio 2017.
This is what pops up which provides the desired functionality and a couple of options:
In Visual Studio 2015, View > Other Windows > Resource View. The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+E. I find this cleaner than Class View. With Class View Windows you can filter methods/attributes based on access modifier (private/protected/public) etc.
A nice clean way to do this is to use the command View.SynchronizeClassView by entering it into the Command Window (View > Other Windows > Command Window or Ctrl+Alt+A) but there's no way to do it automatically.
Additionally, you can:
pin your Class view window
collapse the top pane (listing all the classes)
And now it feels just like the Visual Assist's feature "List Methods in Current File" (which also list members btw).
At the top of your text editor, you should have a dropdown that lists all the methods, properties etc in the current type; and it's clickable (even if those members are defined in other files - in which case they're greyed out but you can still navigate with them).
Also, if you use the Class Explorer (Ctrl+Alt+C) to navigate your project, then you'll get a full overview of all your types. However, there doesn't appear to be a setting in Tools/Options that allows you to track the active type in that window (there is for the solution explorer) - perhaps a macro or addin is in order...
Microsoft doesn't feel like implementing this useful tool, but if by chance you can have Visual Assist, you have it in VAssistX > Tools > VA Outline. The plugin is not free though.
In Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 you can try the Source Code Outliner Power Toy.
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Do you mean the class view window (View->Class View, or Ctrl+W,C)?
You also have the intellisence popup-window
With Visual Studio 2010
You choose Tools->Settings->Expert Settings
On the left-bottom corner, you will see the tab "Class View" right next tab "Solution Explorer"
In the top area of "Class View" layout, you will see the list of class name, enum, struct, ...
In the bottom area of "Class View layout, you will see the list of member for these class, enum or struct
I have been using USysWare DPack since forever. It is very small and not intrusive so if all you want is a quick shortcut window showing list of methods of the current file you are using, it provides just that. Good thing is that the author is still active after more than 10 years just to keep providing the same features into latest VS release.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SergeyM.DPack-16348
After installation, just use Alt + M to bring up the method list window. I prefer to show all members instead, but it's up to you.
In VS 2012, just go to View > Class View...then you get the Class View GUI in the main tab area. Now, drag this over to the side dock and you have the exact same layout as you would in Eclipse.
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My best way to do this is, that i open the Code Definition Window, under View -> Code Definition Window or press Ctrl + W,D .
And then i got it floated and i have the definitions of methods in separate windows.
Regards
grep -i " sub " filename.vb > methods.txt
grep -i " function " filename.vb >> methods.txt