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?

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! 

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?

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