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
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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.
Apologies upfront if this is a silly question, but it's annoying me to no end and I can't figure it out.
I'm using Visual Studio 2013 Professional, and I usually code in C# where when using the Intellisense, when I press Enter to select a method or something it adds my selection and I can continue typing on the same line.
But at the moment I'm working on a project which is in VB.NET, and when I use the Intellisense in the same way it puts my cursor in the next line, i.e. I press Enter to select whatever, it adds my selection and starts a new line, so I have to press the Backspace to go back to the previous line. It's so annoying!
Is there a way to change this behaviour so the cursor doesn't go to the next line? I've looked at the settings available in Tools > Options but can't figure it out, and searching Google for anything similar hasn't been successful.
Found it here (paragraph List Members)
You have toggled to suggestion mode instead of completion mode.
You can also change to suggestion mode, in which only the text you type is inserted into the code. For example, if you enter an identifier that is not in the list and press TAB, in completion mode the entry would replace the typed identifier. To toggle between completion mode and suggestion mode, press CTRL+ALT+SPACEBAR or click Edit/IntelliSense/Toggle Completion Mode.
So, either use TAB/SPACEBAR (as I said in the comment) or press CTRL+ALT+SPACEBAR to switch back to completion mode.
EDIT: I've found out that whenever you type Stri (String will show highlighted in the list now) and you press . (dot) it will autocomplete and stay at the same line.
I think your way of doing this in C# isn't possible in Visual Basic.
I had the same problem and discovered that Auto list members was not enabled on my machine. It's under Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic > General. This gave me the intellisense I was looking for.
Simple thing which can be used when you face this kind of issue is to press
tab key instead of Enter key when the IntelliSense provided me prediction list.
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.
Back in olden times, I used to code with an editor that allowed you to mark where you were in the code with a keypress. You could jump to another point in the same or another file to check a reference or somesuch. When you were ready, you could hit another keypress and return to the point you saved.
I've long since migrated to Dreamweaver and wanted this functionality. Does it exist in DW? If so, I missed that part of the manual. If not, any suggestions on an editor that DOES have that functionality?
Scott.
There is no official way to do it, but you could use the code collapse feature to create something like a bookmark. Collapse the single line and DW will have a mark at that line number until you clear it.
I've just upgraded to IntelliJ IDEA 10, and it has started doing something extremely annoying. While writing documentation in a .txt file it has started giving me word suggestions as I type. This is, instead of helping, just irritating me while also consuming system resources. I haven't been able to find a way to turn this off in the Settings window. Perhaps there's a way of telling Idea not to do this for certain file types or in code comments?
Goto
Settings/Preferences -> General -> Editor -> Code Completion
and untick Show the parameter info popup to something like 1000 (ms), then it give you time to carry on typing before the pop up.
Or disable settings such as Show suggestions as you type
For intelliJ 2016.2.2, it defaults to auto insert code suggestions which is very annoying. Even when typing space, it overrides what I'm typing and puts something random in. Here's the solution:
Go to Settings > Editor > General > Code Completion
Then, UNCHECK the box that says "Insert selected variant by typing dot, space, etc." See screenshot below
You are not alone, please watch/vote for IDEABKL-5963.