Visual Studio 2005 Annoyances
Anyone who has worked with me knows how much I enjoy working with mainly the keyboard alone. IntelliJ and Eclipse have great ways of doing things with the mouse, and as I’m finding out, Visual Studio has a plethora of them as well. Unfortunately many of them trigger hidden buttons or menu items that don’t exist. We accidentally turned on a “feature” of showing spaces as dots and took a while searching out how to turn if off as shown in the diagram below.
If it ever happens to you, you apparently have to drag a button onto one of the menu bars in order to disable it. Otherwise try the short cut keys, CTRL-R followed by CTRL-W. Of course…
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Thanks, you saved my life !
i was frustrated with this. Somehow, accidentally this one got enabled when i was typing fast. I spent a good 15 mts in visual studio but nothing useful. Then i googled and in 2 seconds was here… Thanks.
Thanks a lot, i am very much fustrated with this. The problem is To encapsulate a field we use Ctrl+R, E. While trying to do that i accidently pressed Ctrl+R, W which turned on that feature. Now its fine.
THANK YOU!!!!
thank a lot.. u have reduced my tension due to this …
THANK YOU!!! This was TICKING [real word remove in the event small children read this post] me off!!
This just saved me too. Thanks! First result in Google when I typed “visual studio spaces as dots” too.
Thanks! The cat walked across the keyboard and turned this on for me. If only I could teach him web design…
You are superman! Thanks a ton.