IDE not picking up my 'Backspace' or 'Enter' keystrokes in the debugger

IDE not picking up my 'Backspace' or 'Enter' keystrokes in the debugger

• Will Perry

  Sorry,
  
  #1 Will not reset. After trying to reset to default settings and folders, I recieve this: "Error 1: Reset was interrupted by the user".
  #2 Alt+Enter had no effect.
  #3 Undocking and even closing all of the extra windows did not help.
  #4 Unpinning or closing the Toolbox does not help.
  #5 Clicking on the 'Errors List' or any other window and going back does not help.
  #6 'Shift+Alt+Enter' does not take me to Full screen, clicking on the toolbar to show Full screen takes me there, but the problem still exists.
  
  I can shift the focus around, but once inside the editor I still can not navigate.
  
  

• jadams

  Hi, I'm sorry to hear that.  Is it happening consistently for you everytime you perform this edit action while debugging   Can you tell us a bit more about the Visual Studio environment you are working in to help us track down this issue
  
  For example are you using VS2005 Beta2 or VS2005 Final Release version   What Visual Studio profile (eg Visual Basic Profile or General Profile) are you using   If you type those keystrokes in another window, such as pressing <enter> in the immediate window, are they also failing   Do you have any other Visual Studio Add-ins installed   Press <enter> in the editor window, do you see the title bar flash in anyway or the focus of any window changes in anyway
  
  Ting

  
  
  

• Marchionni Daniele

  Thanks, that helps. I will forward this issue onto my Edit and Continue team and see what they can find. (I can’t repro this problem myself, so this may be a bit tricky to track down – I’ll let you know how it goes.)
  
  
  
  --Matt--*
  
  

• onishin

  Hi, Windsailor,
  
  Sorry to hear about the problems! Where are the keystrokes failing – in the Immediate Window, Watch Windows, or in the editor itself (while doing Edit & Continue)
  
  
  
  --Matt Gertz--*
  
  VB Compiler Dev Lead
  
  

• rpk_isv

  Yes it is consistent.
  This is with the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, final version.
  Profile, not sure how to change it on this one in the 2005 Express Edition, I am basically a part time programmer, not real good at this but learning. Develop in Access and then converting to .Net learning as I go.
  VS 2003 Enterprise.
  DevExpress VS2003 add-ins (They have different versions for 2003 and 2005, I have none installed for 2005 since I rely on 2003 and just downloaded VS2005 for a try).
  MS Office 2003
  MS Access 2003 Developers pack
  So far it seems to fail only in the editor window.
  There is no title bar flash or change of focus once I am within the editor window.
  
  -------Edit---------
  Repaired Code Rush to support VS2005... didn't help in the editor.
  I have other add-ins (such as the XtraGrid suite etc. but I don't think that they would effect the editor such as Code Rush).
  The other thing that is failing is exporting or saving my settings within the environment when I save the project. It always fails or has an error. I have uninstalled and reinstalled VS2005 Express and the error remanins.
  
  
  
  

• peter_akerstrom

  We have digged around a bit more and found a new link
  
  http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewFeedback.aspx feedbackid=49d72373-39cc-4d75-93c8-bf466f1e2099
  
  Can you try the workaround mentioned in that bug
  Exit VB Express.
  2. Navigate to the Application Data folder for Visual Studio, for example: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\VBExpress\8.0\, and delete Default.vsk.
  3. Launch VB Express.
  
  These steps should resolve the profile reset/import issue.
  Alternatively you can try run VBExpress.exe /resetsettings
  
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• Perry

  Hi Matt,
  
  They are failing in the editor itself.
  The keys that are not responding are the Carriage Return, Backspace, Home, Delete, Insert, End, Page Up, Page Down, and all of the arrow -directional- keys.
  
  When creating an event... the editor will open up and I can type within the event what I want, but I can not move within the editor. Make sense
  
  In order to delete what I have typed, I have to highlight it with my mouse and click on the 'Cut' symbol.
  
  I have MS IntelliPoint 4.12 Mouse Software, and iTouch222 installed. The earlier is used for scrolling in the VBA editor.
  
  ---------Edit---------
  Uninstalling MS IntelliPoint 4.12 Mouse Software didn't solve the problem.
  
  
  
  

• Vaidyak

  We have found a couple of other people who have reported similar issues and there are some workarounds.  Can you try these workarounds (except the 1st one which is not for the express edition) and see if they fixes the problem you have encountered  http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/ViewWorkaround.aspx FeedbackID=FDBK23483#2
  
  There's also a blog post about this issue.
  http://blogs.msdn.com/vseditor/archive/2005/05/12/417011.aspx
  
  Let us know what you find.
  
  

• Rajesh G

  Great that did it, deleting 'Default.vsk'... Thank you!
  
  After deleting 'Default.vsk', I immediately went back and tried to reset my profile and got the following error:
  
  Your settings were reset, but there were some errors.

  Error 1:  Projects and Solutions: Unable to import property 'ProjectItemTemplatesLocation' because it contains invalid data '%vsspv_visualstudio_dir%\Templates\ItemTemplates'.
  Error 2:  Projects and Solutions: Unable to import property 'ProjectTemplatesLocation' because it contains invalid data '%vsspv_visualstudio_dir%\Templates\ProjectTemplates'.
  
  That (deleting 'Default.vsk' - and possibly reseting my profile - wish I would of tried it before resetting my profile) fixed the navigation problem within the Editor, I now have all my key functions back and can navigate inside the Editor.
  
  And I now no longer have an error when closing VBExpress.
  
  Again thanks a lot, for establishing a workaround in 1 day!
  
  

  
  
  

• TravisM727

  Uninstalled Code Rush... the editor error remains.
  
  

• no1cyf

  Disabling my Anivirus "Nod32" still does not help.
  
  And always when I am closing VS2005 Espress, I recieve the following error:
  "The automatically saved settings file 'C:\....vssettings' is not available for write. You can change this file on the 'Import and Export Settings' Tool Option page".
  
  --------Edit---------
  
  When I go to the default folder to where my settings are saved... they are indeed saved. The .vssettings files are there.
  
  
• IDE not picking up my 'Backspace' or 'Enter' keystrokes in the debugger