Non-working keys in VB 2005 Express editor

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Non-working keys in VB 2005 Express editor

My previously working 2005 Beta version expired so I uninstalled it and reinstalled VB 2005 Express Edition per the instructions.

Now the backspace, arrows, Enter and some other keys don't work in the editor (same result whether a new project is created, or an old one loaded).

Any help would be appreciated.

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Non-working keys in VB 2005 Express editor

  • olichap1

    I solved this by creating a new account (with admin privileges) on my PC, and reinstalling VB Express under that new account.

    It works under the new account but the same VB IDE problems still exist when it is run under the old account.

    Note: the "binding handle is invalid" was a separate problem, solved by starting up "terminal services". This is done under Control Panel / Performance and Maintenance / Administrative Tools / Services.

    I tried running "vbexpress" at a command line with the options /ResetSettings and /resetusersettings but with no luck. (If you have visual studio it would be "devenv /ResetSettings <path to and name of your settings file>")

    Good Luck

  • Richardthomas1960

    Try

    Tools -> Options

    Then Select Environment -> Keyboard from the treeview

    and then select reset.

    This should reset the keyboard mappings. This may help.

  • Kakktus

    Thanks, but resetting keyboard mappings doesn't help. There are some additional symptoms besides non-working keys:

    Attempts to debug (new or old project) result in "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging. The binding handle is invalid."

    Upon exit from VB 2005 Express, this message pops up: "The automatically saved settings file 'c:\Documents and Settings\ ... \settings\currentsettings.vssettings' is not available for write. You can change this file on the 'Import and Export Settings' Tools Options page." (But, this advice doesn't help and copying the backup .vssettings file back to currentsettings.vssettings doesn't help.)

    I have tried completely uninstalling everything related to Visual Studio including older versions of VB 2003, C# 2003 and Frameworks 1.1 and 2.0, cleaning the registry and reinstalling VB 2005 Express from scratch, but with the same results.

    Any help would be appreciated,

    Thanks

  • LazerBeam

    testing IE7... sorry to be a nuicence...

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