The editor in VS 2008 keeps autohiding my properties, while I'm typing in them. I.e. I have a standard property, with xml comments, like:







When it hides itself it'll look like:







Any idea on how to alter this behavior?

Gotcha....the only thing that I could think of is that something along the lines of a hot key or macro combination is firing the outline collapse command.  You can do this through hotkeys and macros, so I wonder if yours has changed from the defaults or something along those lines.  I could definitely see how that could get irritating!

What ever it is, it's a sneaky little basta....er...weasel. No macros that I can find are defined. It usually happens when I'm not typing, like when I pause for a second. I'm still looking into keyboard short cuts.

Dude...your computer is possessed

Have you tried some duct tape?

Greg,

Look under edit - outlining , I use the short cuts there to collapse and expand code sections and regions but never had it do it by itself.

Yeah. I tried that first. At first I was using an open source duck tape, but it fell off my LCD every time a MS program was used. Then I tried to use Duck Code Tape 2.0 (tm)(c) from MS directly, but there was a bug where the tape would only scroll with the regions if I was scrolling down, so I had to remove it. When I took the tape off, it mangled my code, turning it into C# with calls to unmanaged assembly code. Thanks for the suggestion though





Paul, I assume you mean Tools|Options|Keyboard right? I don't see anything there yet, but I'm investigating.

LOL

Greg ,

I'm talking about outlining under  Edit.. you need to be in a source file for the munu option to show, shortcut is it is like Ctrl M + Ctrl M

Gotcha. OK, I'll look into that.