i have a new PC, WIN10 again, same programs (Office2013) again, nothing changed more or less. But: i have a program to copy the path of a file into the clipboard, these links d not work if there are special characters in the filename (ÖÄÜ...).
Also in VBA my "personal.xlsb" does not open, i get a error with title "Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications" and as text only "400".
Some other vba-macros dont work as soon as a table has a ÜÖÄ in its name. When I enter ?"Ä" in the direct window, i get "�" as solution.
I have checked the obvious language settings and dont know where to search anymore...
Thanks for any help!
Make sure your "Language for non-unicode programs" under Region/Administrative is a language that can handle the special characters. Run intl.cpl to open it.
You can use ChrW() to wright your special characters.
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Using VB.NET in Visual Studio 2019. Type a single space character anywhere in the codebase and a popup displays a long list of options. You have to constantly click away or press ESC. This quickly gets annoying.
Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic > General > Auto list members stops these unwelcome popups...but now "member of" functions are not listed at all! For example:
Dim test As String = "fred"
test. ' Nothing is displayed when the dot is typed, but expected `Length`, etc
Is it possible to get Intellisense for "member of" only, but otherwise switched off and no other automatic listing (so nothing would be displayed when you are just typing away).
What a shambles to do so much with a single setting. If someone from Microsoft is reading this, check out how Borland's Delphi 7 handled this...an IDE of speed and beauty.
Very annoying that it distracts you that much. Im sorry to hear that.
Unfortunately, the final answer is that it cannot be solved, because microsoft would never consider an unpopular opinion.
The 'popup' is one of the most important features why people moved away from notepad in the first place. Every IDE will have it, and if they dont, they soon might. it is rarely unwelcomed.
With that in mind, microsoft didnt intend visual studio to be used without it.
I have some cross platform code that I regularly share between Visual Studio and Xcode (and Vim).
At some point, I modified a string in this code, using Visual Studio. That string somehow ended up with an errant '^H' control character (ASCII 0x08) embedded in it.
The trouble is, this control character is non-printable. It wasn't visible in Visual Studio, nor was it visible in Xcode.
Viewing the source in Vim, I could clearly see the problem. Vim helpfully displays the control character, and problem solved.
Interestingly, when viewing the source via Xcode I can navigate through the string with the cursor - it clearly knows the character is there, as the cursor remains in the same location when traversing over the non-printable character.
So..
How can I prevent Visual Studio from inserting errant control characters in the first place? I presume this is a bug and should never happen.
Is there any way to have Visual Studio display such control characters, without also showing spaces/tabs?
Is there any way to have Xcode display such control characters, without also showing spaces/tabs?
Both environments have an equivalent 'Editor->Show Invisibles' but it's a bit of an all or nothing.. It's not something I want on all the time.
Do this in VS 2010 with VB.NET:
On a blank line, type anything that isn't a variable, property, method, etc. I will use woo as an example.
Hit Enter or move the cursor up or down a line.
VS will add parenthesis to the end of it, turning it into woo().
Annoying, isn't it? Now insert foo in front of woo(), separated by a space like this: foo woo().
Move the cursor up or down (don't use Enter). VS turns it into foo(woo()), somehow drawing the conclusion that you want to pass woo() through foo(). What gave it that idea?
I know that the IDE isn't a text editor, but there are many times when I will want to paste in some text from a business requirements document or even some SQL and then comment it out after the fact. c# is great for this since it never assumes that I am trying to do anything, but the VB.NET IDE ends up parsing the holy love out of whatever block of text I paste into it and I end up having to edit out everything it added in.
Why does it do this? Can I tell it not to?
Unselect Pretty listing (reformatting) of code. You can find this under: Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Basic -> VB Specific
I'm using coderush with vs 2008. coding in VB.net.
I don't see any evidence of Intellassist, all i see is the usual VS intellisense.
Is this normal? Preferred? Do most people leave the defaults or do most/some turn off vs's intellisense?
Does intellassist somehow agument intellisence?
thanks
jonathan
I see CodeRush Intellassist as an extension of Visual Studio Intellisense and not its replacement or anything else. Intellassist completes the text at the editor caret position with an in-scope identifier and may include other suggestions, such as physical file path completion or enumeration elements completion (which is not actual for Visual Basic).
To use Intellassist, just write code as you normally would. When Intellassist senses one or more suggestions matching the code you've entered so far, the best suggestion will be displayed to the right of the editor caret.
Once Intellassist is active, you have several options:
Press Enter to accept the highlighted suggestion. If you have the case-sensitive option turned off, Intellassist will ensure the entire suggestion is properly cased to match the declaration.
Press Shift+Enter to accept a portion of the suggestion. Shift+Enter accepts from the caret to the character preceding the next uppercase letter in the suggestion. For example, if "AllowMultipleSelections" was the suggestion, and "al" had been typed in, pressing Shift+Enter successive times would cause the selection to shift as follows:
Shift+Enter is useful when you need to create a new variable name that is similar to a portion of an existing suggestion, or when you want to quickly access a different but similarly-named suggestion (differing only in the latter portions of the text). You can press Shift+Enter to move the selection right, and then start typing to get other suggestions.
If more than one entry is suggested you can cycle forward and backward through the suggestions by pressing the Tab and Shift+Tab.
Press the Delete key to cancel the suggestion.
Do nothing for a few moments and Intellassist will hide the suggestion.
If the text you've entered is a code template that you want to expand, just press Space or ; to expand the template normally.
Continue typing (narrowing down the suggestion list or ultimately ignoring all suggestions).
Intellassist is highly configurable. You can specify whether case-insensitive suggestions should be made, and also change a host of other options.
After using graphical IDE's like Visual Studio, I'm used to pressing CTRL+Space to auto-complete a variable or function name. Now, I know such a thing isn't completely possible in VI, but I heard there was a list of commands that could be mapped that allowed automatic completion of variables and functions in the current file opened. Does anyone know what this sequence is?
Just noticed that you said "vi"; I hope that "vim" is also okay.
It depends on the particular programming language, but in general, the magic word is Omnicomplete.
Put this into .vimrc:
filetype plugin on
set ofu=syntaxcomplete#Complete
Press Ctrl+N or Ctrl+P to trigger the completion. This is insanely customizable; you might like the tips here that make it work more like other IDEs.