Does anyone know how to stop Visual Studio from automatically refreshing the Design view everytime I modify the source file associated with a Form?
I'm updating strings on a form that has about a million controls. I'm constantly going back and forth between the design and code for a form. The load time it takes to render the design each time is killing me. I'm not changing anything that would directly affect the design view, so is there a way to stop it updating every time?
No there is not. This is the default behavior and it cannot be changed. The design view when focused will always try to update with the latest version of the source. If it has changed the design view will too. This is necessary to ensure that any changes which occur to the UI reflect changes on the current state of the source code.
My workaround was to edit the code in notepad so I could click around in Design view without refreshes, then pasted the code back into V-Studio
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In compare option inside the source control, the scrolling is bind together for both files.
I want to scroll just one of the sides while the other stay pinned also I want to avoid comparing outside on the VS.
I can't find any solution online and there is no obvious option in the VS.
I'm Using VS2015 with TFS.
Thank you.
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New feature request for microsoft was opened
Feature request
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In VS1029 Version 16.11.3 feature exist, by pressing it you can unbind the windows
In compare option inside the source control, the scrolling is bind
together for both files.
For this , I am afraid this is by designed. The same is true for my test in visual studio2019.
You could add your request for this feature on our UserVoice site , which is our main forum for product suggestions. After suggest raised, you can vote and add your comments for this feedback. The product team would provide the updates if they view it.
When I work on documents, I like to toggle to markdown preview frequently (old habit from MS Word days) or have the preview shown in a split window. What I've found is that the preview does not track the location that is in view in the editor, so I have to scroll down every time I check. If working in split window mode, the preview does not keep up and thus I have to keep scrolling that to catch up. This makes what should be an amazing workflow a bit of an irritation and it gets old very quickly.
I am considering switching editors because of it. But before I do that, I am hoping that perhaps someone out there knows of a way to pin the markdown preview to the current file location (locked scrolling, plugin, etc.) Thanks!
*** EDIT:
Ended up not switching, but found a plugin called Instant Markdown that launches a web preview of your document and renders it in real time. While it too does not track location through auto-scroll, it is much more pleasant to work with I have found, since I can move it around, even on another monitor and can thus keep much more of the render in view at once. This is a partial answer to the issue and I am no longer actively seeking the auto-scroll technique since I much prefer this technique for WYSIWYG.
Unfortunately, according to this issue #5047, the feature you are requesting is still under development
In case you didn't switch editors yet, this feature milestone is set to January 2017, i.e. we can hope that it will be done soon
I am having a Weird and annoying problem. In my ASP.NET MVC 5 project, time to time, I see that _ViewStart file and Shared/_Layout.cshtml files are created automatically even though I did not want. So, I deleted those files but these files are getting created time to time by itself. That cause a great problem because, sometimes, if I dont notice that these files are created, I can accidentally publish the website and then, after publish, I notice that all pages are being wrapped by the auto created _Layout.cshtml file. Is it a smart helping feature of Visual Studio 2013 ? Cant we stop this ?
Emran!
I am not sure that you still need the answer but today I have also met similar problem. By some unknown reason file "Shared/_Layout.cshtml" was automatically added to my Project.
I was realy wondering why could it happen and I found which actions should be performed to make this file be created.
I have added new View to my Project and have used for it standard VS resources:
Right mouse click on Views folder.
Add -> Veiw...
Inside window for adding view I have checked "Use a layout page" and have left field below empty.
Press Add
My VS was thinking a lot and suddenly created new view and also... "Shared/_Layout.cshtml" and "Shared/_ViewStart.cshtml" files!! I do not think that this option might be switched off because it is logically to create layout page when it has been missed.
Hope this info is helpful for you and for anybody else :)
The problem: In VS2010, I have a form with a broken design view. It's breaking on a couple of Atalasoft imageviewer controls.
The weirdness: Took me some time to figure this out, but if I go into the forms designer.vb file, and comment out everything regarding these controls, save, uncomment, and save again, the form design view loads perfect. NOTE: I'm not changing anything. Just commenting/uncommenting portions of the designer and saving.
The form design view continues to work fine until I do any of the following:
close the form design view and the designer.vb file and try to view again.
close the solution and reopen.
After doing either of these things, it's back to square one and I have to comment/uncomment/save to view the form designer again.
I'm on Win7, 64 bit. I have worked on this app in the past with no issue. The app builds and runs just fine. It's just a VS form design view issue, and I'm flummoxed.
I'd love to hear any thoughts on how I can solve this. If I can provide any more specific info, please let me know.
I've seen this happen rarely, when something odd gets into the designer file for a form and the designer can't figure out how to display things anymore. A third-party control being part of it could be indicative of some bug with that control's designer-related code.
One thing to try might be re-creating the form in question from scratch, and see if that fixes it. Perhaps something inadvertently got fubared. Also see if there is anything out there with others having designer problems with the same control(s) in question.
Sorry can't offer more direct help; maybe someone else has experienced something more closely related.
In Visual Studio, you can expand and collapse code without using regions, for example in a code-behind page you can collapse methods, etc... And in an ASPX page you can collapse tags, tags, etc...
It's useful when you have a long page and you want to focus your development on a specific part. What's cool about it too is that you can close the file and reopen it and the state of the expanded/collapsed blocks is saved exactly as you left it.
Except in one instance. That state is not saved for tags in ASPX pages, where it would be most useful.
I know there are some good plugins out there for VS but I couldn't find one that addresses this issue.
Has anybody got a solution?
Before you mention custom controls, they are not always convenient or feasible when trying to keep a page short and I don't consider this a solution to this problem.
Looks like this issue will stay unresolved at this time.
I opened a bug report on Microsoft Connect, if this issue is important to you please vote it up!
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/613221/expanded-collapsed-state-not-saved-after-closing-file