By Greg McGuffey - 7/1/2008
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:
Private _myProp As Integer
'''<Summary>
''' I'll be typing here especially and the damn thing hides itself on me...
''' </Summary>
''' etc.
Public Property MyProp() As Integer
Get
Return _myProp
End Get
Set(value As Integer)
_myProp = value
End Set
End Property
When it hides itself it'll look like:
private _myProp As Integer...
Any idea on how to alter this behavior?
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By Trent L. Taylor - 7/2/2008
You're saying that VS is taking the property code from above and converting it into a private?!?!?! I have never experienced or even heard of anything even remotely close to this type of behavior if that is what you are saying! 
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By Greg McGuffey - 7/2/2008
No, no, no...I'm saying that it takes the top code and collapses it (aka regions) into the bottom code. I.e. it doesn't do anything to the code, just hides...while I'm typing in it. Driving me crazy. The "..." indicates there is hidden code, you double click on that and the code is expanded again. Does that make sense?
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By Trent L. Taylor - 7/2/2008
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!
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By Greg McGuffey - 7/2/2008
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.
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By Trent L. Taylor - 7/2/2008
Dude...your computer is possessed 
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By Bill Cunnien - 7/2/2008
Have you tried some duct tape?
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By Paul Chase - 7/3/2008
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.
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By Greg McGuffey - 7/3/2008
Bill Cunnien
Have you tried some duct tape?
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 
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.
Paul, I assume you mean Tools|Options|Keyboard right? I don't see anything there yet, but I'm investigating.
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By Bill Cunnien - 7/3/2008
When I took the tape off, it mangled my code, turning it into C# with calls to unmanaged assembly code. LOL 
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By Paul Chase - 7/3/2008
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
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By Greg McGuffey - 7/3/2008
Gotcha. OK, I'll look into that.
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