VS 2005 RTM Weird Editor Behavior

VS 2005 RTM Weird Editor Behavior

• Howard Yu

  Hi Zisha,
  
  Any clues you can provide will be much appreciated. Meanwhile, we are going to activate the bug that we were unable to fix prior to shipping Visual Studio 2005 and hopefully by fixing this we will also be addressing your issue.
  
  If in the meantime you keep encountering this issue try things like closin and reopening the file to see if the problem goes away. Or closing reopening the project. I realize this is a pain and if it becomes too much trouble you will probably be better off turning Pretty Listing off as previously suggested. Also with Pretty Listing off I believe that issuing a "Format Text" command on your selected text will manually force pretty listing of your code. It's under the Edit Advanced menu.
  
  I hope this helps address your problem.
  
  Cameron McColl
  The Wee Scot
  

• kmax

  Thanks. I’m following up with my team and will let you know what we find.
  
  
  
  --Matt--*
  
  

• fedeburin

  Matt,
  
  Thank you for the info but from your response it appears that you haven't read the entire thread. I was complaining about a problem I have where as soon as I type a single letter, the IDE turns it into a method call by appending parens to it. I was asked to provide steps to reproduce it which I did.

  
  

• Arthur Knight

  Hi Zisha,
  
  I am a dev on Matt's team and we did encounter this once and were unable to get a repro on the cause. Would you be willing to send me a zip file of your project and any instructions on how to get the situation to occur
  
  We'd really like to find the root cause of this problem as it is obviously very annoying.
  Meanwhile if the problem becomes really bothersome a temporary workaround is to disable PrettyListing in the Tools Option section. It's under the Editor -> VB Specific section.
  
  Feel free to contact me directly at cmccoll@microsoft.com
  
  Cameron McColl
  The Wee Scot
  

• ETUX

  It seems that they have marked the bug as resolved! That's news to me. It's biting me every day at least once, usually more.
  

• Rob Cannon

  Zisha,
  
  I moved your thread to the VB IDE forums.  They should be able to assist you better here.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Dylan
  
  

• loosie

  OK, the following is the version info from the About Box.
  
  Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
  Version 8.0.50727.42  (RTM.050727-4200)
  Microsoft .NET Framework
  Version 2.0.50727

  Installed Edition: Professional

  Microsoft Visual Basic 2005   77626-009-0000007-41620
  Microsoft Visual Basic 2005

  The project type is Windows Application and I am using source control.

  
  

• Dens

  I dont know for sure that this is is accurate but I noticed that this seems to happen when I'm debugging an app, then close the main window of the app which stops the debugging session, then before the IDE is completely back into regular editing mode I start typing into a code file. I've noticed this several times and have even been able to repro this most of the time.
  

• Oh the pain

  Hi Zisha,

  The bug was resolved as No Repro because we have not been able to reproduce this issue, and we don't have sufficient repro steps to help us do so.  Thus, we are tracking the issue, but are not reactivating the bug until we have more actionable information.

  It sounds like you are running into this bug a fair bit.  Thus, we would love to talk with you further about it, so that we can find a repro.  Once you have any more information, can you please reactivate the bug at the following location and add your comments there

  http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewFeedback.aspx feedbackid=49e48f9e-6f26-4c8a-9ae5-f8dee8081e66

  More details about the particular moment when this bug tends to occur or a sample of your code, would all be useful information.

  Thanks,
  Lisa

  
  

• dacoty

  Sorry – as noted, my editor is going nuts (I’m reading these from Outlook rather than from the web – I guess I’ll have to shift), and I’m missing posts. What’s worse is that, looking at the whole thread on the web, it seems that I’ve already directed Cameron to follow up with you, and had forgotten this over the long Thanksgiving holiday. Sigh – just one of those days… :-(
  
  

• Maaloul

  (Second attempt to get this in the right thread… :-))
  
  
  
  Hi, Zisha,
  
  That’s right, with VS2005, you can always type in the code file, regardless of the state of the application (debug or otherwise) since we now support edit and continue. Sometimes, what you type might be flagged as a “rude edit” (something we cannot continue past, like adding a public method for example), but beyond those we can even integrate your changes made while debugging. This option can be disabled, if you prefer, from Tools\options, “Show all settings” ->debugging/enable edit and continue. But hopefully you will like it!
  
  
  
  Hope this helps,
  
  --Matt Gertz--*
  
  VB Compiler Dev Lead
  
  

• JohnBBBBBBBB

  Hi Zisha,

  Thank you for all your efforts following up with us on this issue.  We are currently tracking this issue as an MSDN Feedback Ladybug:

  http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewFeedback.aspx feedbackid=49e48f9e-6f26-4c8a-9ae5-f8dee8081e66

  MSDN Feedback is the best way for us to get code defect issues looked at by the product team.  If you do find that you are able to gather any more info for a repro, please reactivate the bug and enter your comments there.

  Thanks!

  Lisa Feigenbaum
  VB Program Manager

  
  

• mokeefe

  Zisha,
  
  This sounds like a bug that we fixed earlier in the product cycle, so I’m at a loss to explain why you are seeing it now. (Basically, every keystroke is erroneously sending us a “Commit” message and so we do the parentheses, etc.) Can you provide more detailed repro steps so that we can get to the bottom of this For example, the project type, whether or not you are using source code control, etc. I would very much like to find and fix this problem.
  
  
  
  --Matt Gertz--*
  
  VB Compiler Dev Lead
  
  

• Shelly

  I can't give you repro steps because it "just happens" while I'm coding but if/when it happens again I will try to retrace my steps and see if I can reproduce it. I also cannot send you the project because it is my company's proprietary information.
  
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