It's very hard in new visual studio copy and paste part of text because when control is clicked all types, methods, variables will be hilighted like links.
So i cannot quickly use control+c and control+v because when control is hold and you select with mouse part of method name visual studio will open method definition pane and then fragment from buffer will be pasted there!
This is very disturbing and annoying. Any way to turn this off?
I tracked this down to the Productivity Power Tools 2013 as well. Instead of uninstalling it like #Evengy suggests, if you use it for something else like Undo Close, you can just disable the option for that feature.
(Note: you'll need to restart Visual Studio for the changes to take effect.)
Was uninstalled productivity tools and it helps.
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Working on a project I made a class with properties and when I tried to auto-generate a class constructor I got an error saying something on lines of "auto generation of class constructor failed... and will be disabled" and ever sense then the "generate constructor" option has been taken off the Refactor menu and on top of that I don't get syntax error highlighting anymore and intellisense doesn't seem to be working proper or at all.
I tried using going into Tools > Options > Text Editor > various fields including "C#" and "general") and I don't see anything obviously wrong. I also tried to use Visual Studio Installer to try to repair and that didn't do anything. I am completely out of ideas and I can't find anything that is remotely close to my case. TIA
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I created a .Net 6.0 C# console project in Visual Studio 2022, add a class, and add two private fields. Selecting these two fields, press Alt+Enter to quickly generate the constructor. I did not encounter your issue.
Please try:
Go to Visual Studio Installer, click Modify, uncheck IntelliCode in Individual components, then click Modify button to save the change, wait for the installation to complete, and then reinstall IntelliCode.
In Visual Studio, go to Tools->Options->IntelliCode to check if the setting is Default.
Go to Tools menu, and select Options. Under Intellicode select General. Just uncheck “C# Suggestions”. Then restart Visual Studio and check that intellisence and syntax errors are appearing.
Note, I was not able to figure out what this option does, as the C# code suggestions seemed to continue to work as expected.
According to the Visual Studio 2015 update 2 release notes, it is now possible to initialize the C# interactive environment with the context of a selected project. This feature is further described in these blog posts. However, the "Initialize interactive with project" menu option they talk about and show in screenshots simply isn't present for me (though I do see the related new "Execute in interactive" option when I select code in the editor).
I'm using:
Any clue what might be wrong? Does anyone else see this feature?
Update: Just to prove it's really not there:
Right click on your project and you'll see the option in the context menu.
Within the code window Right-Click you will see it there. Perform the right click as if you are trying to right click on a function. You can execute an entire function.
You can actually right click anywhere in the code window.
I'm using Visual Studio Community 2015 Update 2, and I can see the expected menu option by right-clicking a console project, so it should be available for you too.
I just wonder if you can see and use View > Other Windows > C# Interactive
Maybe if you double check the installed components through the Visual Studio setup and/or do a Repair by Visual Studio setup can bring it back for you.
I'm new to Visual Studio and couldn't find my answer anywhere else for hours over the internet..
I'm Using "Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows" and everytime I create a new project with a blank page (XAML), the designer only shows me the frame of the page with its missing background.
And any control I drag to it, is invisible (I can only see the square border of the control I dragged but no texture..)
This is only happening during design time. On RunTime it actually shows up..
This is happening to me since I had the first fresh install. Just to be clear, I am NOT opening an existing previous project.. I have non. This is the first time I make a project in C# and I'm surprised I didn't find anything useful so far over internet search..
Also tried installing, uninstalling, repairing and changing to different versions...
The problem didn't show on Visual Studio 2012 Express for Desktop, but this product doesn't seem to be fit to my needs.. (I'm trying to also learn how to develop for Windows Store and other products)
The IDE doesn't show any errors or warnings..
Help would be much appreciated!
P.S - I'm running Windows 8.1
You can try Blend to open the project and render the xaml，if the problem appear too, maybe you should check out your graphics card or update driver.
try with this!
Check the following:
Tools -> Options
Expand Text Editor -> XAML -> Miscellaneous
Make sure that "Always open documents in full XAML view" is not checked
Or perhaps the default program for opening .xaml files has changed:
Right-click your .xaml file in Solution Explorer
Click Open With...
Select XAML UI Designer
Click Set as Default button
Click OK
If it's related to the video driver, maybe disabling hardware acceleration will help?
Or you could try Visual Studio Community Edition (http://www.visualstudio.com/, click on the Download button under "Free developer tools"
Did one of these suggestions work?
I'm attempting to use the Ctrl+R, Ctrl+R command within Visual Studio 2008 to rename a variable. I get an error message at the bottom saying that
"The key combination (Ctrl+R, Ctrl+R) is bound to command (&Rename...) which is not currently available."
I am not running it or anything I can think of which might prohibit modifications of the file and the F2 command allows a rename to happen. Anyone know how to fix this?
EDIT: I do have Resharper installed but was previously able to do this with the same setup, I recently migrated computers.
I was able to fix this by doing the following:
Go to Resharper → Options menu commmand
Select Environment → Keyboard & Menus
Select the Visual Studio option under Keyboard Shortcuts
Click Apply Scheme and Save
This will cause Ctrl+R, Ctrl+R to do a rename. (Select ReSharper options in the dialog box that pops up then.)
However, it made F2 no longer able to preform a rename. I was able to fix that by doing the following:
Go to ReSharper → Options menu command
Select Environment → General
Select the ReSharper 2.x or IntelliJ IDEA under Restore ReSharper keyboard shortcuts
Click Apply or OK
This allows both F2 and Ctrl+R, Ctrl+R commands to work for renaming a variable.
This seems to be specific to ReSharper being installed with Visual Studio, I don't know what the solution would be to fix this if ReSharper weren't installed.
For Resharper 6
You should:
Select menu "Resharper" - "Options..."
Select "Visual Studio Integration"
Choose "Visual Studio" in both places
Click "Apply Scheme"
It will either works or you will have a selection to do (Visual Studio or Resharper), if it is so, then choose Resharper.
resharper has multiple default shortcut bindings that is chosen the first time you start visual studio after instalation. My guess is you picked a different one this time.
In my case the problem was solved by clearing the ReSharper cache. This can be done in the options menu under Environment > General here:
This happened to me once. I had to reinstall Resharper (repair from Add/Remove programs probably) to get it to work. But that was with VS2005 though.
Using version 8 of ReSharper in Visual Studio 2013, I had to
Go to the RESHARPER menu -> Options
Expand Environment
Select Keyboard & Menus
Choose Visual Studio as the ReSharper keyboard scheme
Click Apply Scheme...Save & close dialog box.
The next time I executed a keyboard shortcut it prompted me to choose which keyboard shortcut I wanted to use.
Nothing has worked for me until I have tried upgrading my Resharper! :O
I'm guessing very few people will be in my situation but FWIW I was in this situation too where Refactor.Rename (Ctrl+R,Ctrl+R) was NOT working in Visual Studio 2019/Win 10, after reboots/restarts plus I did not have Resharper installed. In my case Refactor.Rename wasn't working because my project was in FOLDER mode not SOLUTION mode (OMFG). Soon as I used the solution tool to "Switch Views" and went into SOLUTION mode Refactor.Rename started working again. In hindsight this makes sense of course but some kind of error message/warning would have been nice to help me realize what the issue was!
For me, the issue was I hadn't started the Resharper evaluation which wasn't obvious because all of the Resharper extension options were accessible, but the clue was under:
Extensions -> Resharper -> Why Resharper Is Disabled.
Click "Start Evaluation" (in the same location as "Pause Evaluation" in the screenprint)
I expected the evaluation to start when I clicked "OK", but clearly it doesn't.
You get this behaviour in Visual Studio (without R# installed) if the editor window does not have focus when you issue the shortcut. I've just tried it with R# installed and it does the same thing.
Give the editor focus (ie. by clicking in it) and try again.
This is usually the shortcut used by Resharper. Is there any chance Resharper is not running?
Alternatively, you can change the name, hit Ctrl+. and then use Rename.
For DevExpress:
Open the Options screen (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+O)
Go to Core → Features
Set Default to Visual Studio shortcuts
For me, this problem was caused by me not clicking 'Accept" on the terms and conditions page, but closing it. I did not realize it was the terms and conditions, and thought it was just a notice, or a 'readme' being displayed.
All the answers above are well and good but this error also comes up in one more instance.
You start debugging your test script written for the project , the project stops at breakpoint .
If at this point , you try any operation on code , you will get the error similar to :
"The key combination (Ctrl+R, Ctrl+R) is bound to command (&Rename...) which is not currently available."
Restart Visual Studio.
Worked for me.
None of the above worked for me. I had to reset my resharper settings in the end.
Go to Resharper -> Manage Options
Click the "Reset All Settings" button
In my case (Visual Studio 2022 17.4.0 with Resharper 2022.2.2), I had to
disable Resharper
restart Visual Studio to make the change effective
enable Resharper
restart Visual Studio to make the change effective
Visual Studio 2008 got two great features for c#, which is called "sort using directives" and "remove unused using directives".
I'd like to call the "sort using directives" every time I format the code using ctrl+k,ctrl+d.
Or, even better, I would like to be able to reformat all c#-source files in a project, and call "sort using directives" for all source files.
How can I do this? Opening every cs-file by hand and typing these functions before every checkin is tedious!
You can do it all for a solution or project using "PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008". After installation, you just need to right-click on a project or solution and "Remove and Sort Usings" is in the context menu.
EDIT: As noted in comments, there are also PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010.
Another option is CodeMaid, a free and open source Visual Studio extension. It allows you to sort usings, remove usings, format document, remove/insert blank lines, remove whitespace, and quite a few more cleanups. It can run on save, solution wide, etc. Follow the link to the visual studio gallery to see more details.
It also lets you conditionally enable/disable individual portions, so with it you can disable remove unused usings and do sort only if you want as you mentioned in the comments.
Disclaimer: I wrote it ;)
ReSharper can do this for you (among other reformatting options) and it allows you to do an entire solution in one go.
I recommend you record a macro of you invoking the feature manually. Then you can just save the macro and put a button for it on the toolbar. This way you'll also have a foot in the door to get started really customizing your IDE.