I've tried about seven times to create an item template following the exact instructions on the microsoft website but I have been able to get it to work. After I export my template, it doesn't show up when I try to create a new CPP or Header file. Why is this?
Here (http://imgur.com/a/r6Nku) is a image gallery of my EXACT steps. My apologies if this is not the correct board for such a question, but the MVS support is frankly useless.
Edit: Not sure why adding the tags "visual studio" is forbidden for users with less than 1500 reputation. Maybe a mod can correctly tag it.
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I've got a dgml file created in Visual Studio 2017 that contains a schema for a database.
We refer to this regularly in our team so I want to print it out.
How can I do this?
I've tried the File->Print menu, but it is grayed out.
Also I've tried using Edit->Copy Image, but when I paste it into a third party image editor (that can print) the resolution of the copied image is so low that I can't read the text.
My workaround for now is to use [Share] [Export to Portable XPS...], then print the XPS document.
It doesn't work for complex DGML files, though. I sent a bug report to Visual Studio Developer Community. Feel free to upvote there.
I have recently been exploring C++ some after using C# exclusively for quite awhile. I'm using Visual Studio 2013 and the one thing that is bugging me to death is the inability to commit an Intellisense suggestion by pressing the space bar. I have tried to edit the commit character list in Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Advanced to accept the space bar but so far I've had no luck. Coming from C# this is very aggravating. Does anybody know if it's possible to make such a change? I know I can use Tab or Enter, but in my opinion using Space is far more fluid.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE: Space seems to commit some suggestions but not others. if I type "std::stri", it commits "std::string". Unfortunately, Intellisense won't commit anything created by me or even common keywords. It just adds a space after what I already typed.
Further to my comment on your question, I have installed the trial version of Visual Studio 2013 (Ultimate), and can confirm that space bar does work to complete IntelliSense suggestions. Combining all comments, it would appear that it works in the following versions:
VS 2010
VS 2012
VS 2013
Here is a screenshot of my IntelliSense settings located at Tools > Options > Text Editor > C/C++ > Advanced:
As a last resort you may want to try changing all your settings back to default, as suggested in this answer:
Tools > Import and Export Settings > Reset all settings
UPDATE: After reading JoshC's comments, I have experimented a bit more and I get the problem too. It appears to be related to whether or not the item you are trying to autocomplete is a member of a type or namespace. If it is (e.g. std::string) then space will work. If it is not (e.g. void) then it will not work (but for some reason, tab will work). As per this link, you can manually invoke the "List Members feature" by pressing CTRL+J in which case on a blank line it will include items which are in the global namespace - however this is clearly not a practical solution.
I have no idea why it discriminates between space and tab in this way. If anyone is aware of a workaround please let me know and I will edit this answer again.
The following would seem to imply that there is no solution for C++:
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2656132-support-committed-by-pressing-the-space-bar-in-c
When using Visual Studios 2012 for coding in C++, how do you autocomplete code selected in IntelliSense? (see comments)
I am working on a rather large project, and I am having strange problems with the IDE in terms of error checking and somewhat with IntelliSense.
Usually if I were to type something boneheaded, like "int a = "aa";", it would underline "aa" in red. However I am seeing VS do this to random parts of my code when I make insignificant changes.
For example:
/*
Some comment here, just going to stretch it out for my example..
*/
int proto1();
int proto2();
If I make changes to other parts of the project, sometimes random functions will get underlined, and even part of a comment. Like just 30 minutes ago it underlined the equivalent of half of that comment beginning in the middle of the word "comment", also it underlined all of int proto1(); and part of int proto2();
I would post screenshots but I am bound by contract not to disclose any work, and I can't easily replicate it in smaller projects.
I don't understand why it does this. When I compile the project, any fake errors and underlining it did goes away and it compiles fine. The point though, is there are no errors. It's making up random errors and underlining random lines/words/half words. I would also like to note that there seems to be a large delay in loading new intellisense information, almost by 2-3 minutes or longer.
I'll try and reproduce it in an unrelated project and post here if I can. However, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
*Edit: Forgot to note that hitting the space key several times will on occasion correct the errors however this isn't reliable and does not always work.
Intellisense sometimes can really get stuck with complicated code. I guess until VS2012 release comes out, there's nothing we can do.
There's however one trick that I'm using if this happens - switch your build configuration Debug -> Release and then back again. You don't have to wait, you can just click two times on this drop-down box. It should refresh IS cache and make red error underlines dissappear.
Intellisense is often off, but make sure you have latest updates installed.
I just installed sp1 yesterday and lot of Intellisense issues went way.
I see this is a stale question but some may find this helpful.
I just had this same issue. I tried many of the solutions outlined here and elsewhere. I finally tried running Visual Studio as another user (Shift Right Click Run As Different User) and the issue did not present. I then logged into my computer as another user and deleted the profile of the user I was having the issue with.
If your profile is important to you or there is information within it that is important I highly recommend backing up relevant information first. If you don't understand what information you profile contains make sure you do prior to deleting it.
1) Log in as different user (with admin privileges) than you want to delete
2) Open Properties for Computer
3) Advanced system settings (on the left side)
4) Settings for User Profiles (in the middle)
5) Select the profile you want to delete and click the delete button
6) Reboot
Credit to:
https://superuser.com/questions/63017/how-do-i-delete-a-user-profile-on-a-windows-7-machine-that-is-part-of-a-domain
I had the same issue, and in my case it was mostly related to library functions and types defined in libraries. This one fixed it for me:
Open command line parameters. You can use following to reach there:
Project > ProjectName Properties > Configuration Properties > Linker > Command Line
In the Additional Options box at the bottom add
/I "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include"
You will of course need the correct path where Visual Studio is installed.
Bingo! I hope it works for you too. :)
I just tried using one of the fab40 templates... however, it doesn't do everything I would want so I would like to extend it. My guess is that since it is packaged up as an wsp, that this isn't possible without the source. I find it hard to believe that source would not be provided, am I not looking in the right place?
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/71664b6d-6c17-46e0-8bdf-becca0337cc6/
Once you have the files, you can put them into your own Visual Studio SharePoint project. It would be best to change any GUIDs, layouts file names, and site definition codes and paths to avoid collisions with the original Fab 40 template. You can add a reference to any custom Fab 40 DLL in your project, but the wsp will not contain the C# code. However, you should be able to get the code from Reflector if you need it.
I have a solution with 21 C++ projects and 1 VB.NET project.
The IDE responds very slowly when I simply move the carret in a file or try to open the menu. The process seems to take 50% of CPU for each movement.
It only happens with this solution and only on my machine.
The solution has total of 2380 source and header files, of which 1280 are header files.
I tried to remove all connection to the source control (Perforce) but it didn't help.
Also, I have Visual Assist installed but even after removing it (uninstall), the same behavior continued.
Any idea?
Deactivate intellisense.
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Intellisense parses the whole project and slows down the IDE drastically. If you use Visual Assist then you won't really need it. Visual Assist is less resource hungry and scans in the background, intellisense steals too many resources during its parsing.
Could this apply in your case?
http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/03/visual-basic-2008-hotfix-to-fix-slow.html
Note that disabling Intellisense may also break stuff like the Class Wizard (at least I'm pretty sure it does in VS2005). As already suggested it's a good idea to get rid of all the temporary files like .ncb regularly, because they can get huge and will slow down the IDE.
Also, if you're using Visual Assist, try rebuilding the database, disabling it or installing a different version.
I have a few solutions with over 100 projects, so I know exactly how you feel. Solutions containing some managed projects are especially bad. Disabling Intellisense helps a lot. I've never seen such problems from Visual Assist (or other similar refactoring tools), and that fills in a lot of the missing functionality from losing Intellisense.
I've also encountered some projects that had code that would cause the Intellisense thread to endlessly loop and never finish parsing the code. Most of those times we were never able to pin down the exact bit of code that caused the problem. Certain heavy use of templates and nested macros were often high on the suspicion list.
The only good way to be sure that Intellisense is disabled is to create a directory with the same name as the ncb file. Go to your solution directory, delete the ncb, and create a directory named your_solution_name.ncb. Because it can't recreate the ncb file, you'll get an error box to click through every time you open the solution, but that's a small price to pay.
Simply deleting the ncb will mean that VS will just create it again. The methods that I've seen from inside the VS options will turn off some of the features but will not prevent it from trying to parse all your code.