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8-Dec-21 5:25

I posted on this a while back and never got a resolution.

Using VS2019. In SOME of my code editor windows there appears these horizontal dotted lines. They appear to be indenting indicators of some kind.

See this pic

You can see the lines highligted in red on the left. Yet they DON'T appear on the right code window. Some windows they show up, others they don't.

These really bug me. I've tried all manner of things in Settings. Anyone know how to make these go away?

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Richard Deeming8-Dec-21 6:24

Richard Deeming

8-Dec-21 6:24

That looks like "view whitespace". The file on the left has a mixture of spaces and tabs. The file on the right is only using tabs.

Ctrl+R, Ctrl+W is the default keyboard shortcut to toggle it; otherwise, the option is within the "Edit" menu.

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Kevin Marois8-Dec-21 6:31

8-Dec-21 6:31

Richard Deeming wrote:
Ctrl+R, Ctrl+W is the default keyboard shortcut to toggle it; otherwise, the option is within the "Edit" menu.

This toggles on/off some little right arrows. Those are the whitespace indicators. There's nothing on the Edit menu that I can see that affects this.

But even if this was a setting of some kind, why is it on in some files and not in others?? It should be on/off across all files.

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Dan Sutton9-Dec-21 6:51

Dan Sutton

9-Dec-21 6:51

Perhaps it has something to do with the Settings for "Text Editors" where there's a sort of general bit for "All Languages" and then different settings for different ones, based on file extension... could it be that it's doing it differently depending on what type of file you're looking at?

Kevin Marois9-Dec-21 6:53

9-Dec-21 6:53

Maybe, but like I show in the pic, they doesn't show in all files.

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RickZeeland8-Dec-21 9:40

RickZeeland

8-Dec-21 9:40

Maybe one of the answers here: c# - How to remove dotted line from text editor in visual studio? - Stack Overflow[^]

Delphi.7.Solutions8-Dec-21 20:12

Delphi.7.Solutions

8-Dec-21 20:12

why are you putting protected methods in a region called privat methods ?
Just curious

Re: Protected vs Private...Visual Studio 'Formatting' Lines

den2k888-Dec-21 22:28

den2k88

8-Dec-21 22:28

Protected methods are private, except that derived classes can use them. Unless you are absolutely, positively sure that some methods should not be inherited I find it best to use protected, as it makes future derivations easier.

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etkid849-Dec-21 3:44

etkid84

9-Dec-21 3:44

IMHO, code for the current use case. If something needs to be added in the future it's just as easy to move it from private to protected when you add the new functionality. This isn't the kind of thing is easy to change later and won't impact future work in terms of design and architecture. Java | [Coffee]

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Mark Starr9-Dec-21 4:33

Mark Starr

9-Dec-21 4:33

As others have said, it almost looks like View Whitespace is on, but if that were so, you’d see dots (the space indicator) between all words as well.
I don’t have my IDE open right now, so haven’t looked for some kind of indentation indicator.
I wonder if perhaps you have an extension loaded that’s doing some inconsistent things. Have you tried unloading all extensions to see what happens? Then load them one-by-one to see whether you can isolate the behavior?

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BDieser9-Dec-21 4:58

BDieser

9-Dec-21 4:58

Does it go away if you hit the escape key?

BernardIE53179-Dec-21 10:42

BernardIE5317

9-Dec-21 10:42

Greetings Kind Regards This no doubt not the cause but it is hard not to at least attempt it to wit emplace the statement "using System.Windows" into the left file just as it is emplaced in the right as that appears to be the only difference of any possible significance - Cheerio

Windows 11 - Again!

Kevin Marois8-Dec-21 4:42

8-Dec-21 4:42

So I posted how I "upgraded" to Win 11.

I am now going to roll back to Win 10. Here's why:

The loss of the USB connected devices continues. I have no choice but to reboot.
Now, when Win starts up and I log in, it's gets stuck with "Preparing Windows". A Google search shows this to be a common issue.

So, now I can't use my PC. I'll reboot into Safe Mode and revert.

If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.

Ron Anders8-Dec-21 9:10

Ron Anders

8-Dec-21 9:10

The last good OS from MickySoft was 7
It's been down hill ever since.

Kaladin8-Dec-21 9:33

Kaladin

8-Dec-21 9:33

From my experience with Visual Studio 2017 and Windows 10, Windows 11 will be stable/usable once Windows 12 comes out and they stop adding new features to break it.

Nick Polyak8-Dec-21 12:24

Nick Polyak

8-Dec-21 12:24

Thanks for the warning! I'll wait updating then.

Nick Polyak

Jacquers8-Dec-21 17:37

Jacquers

8-Dec-21 17:37

A clean install seems to be a safer option. Clone existing drive, format, reinstall. If it goes south, restore the clone.

And so much for W11 being W10 reskinned, seems they fiddled a lot under the hood to break things.

Peter Kassenaar8-Dec-21 22:08

Peter Kassenaar

8-Dec-21 22:08

Quote:
seems they fiddled a lot under the hood to break things.

Oh yes! One example (I upgraded last week but don't have the USB-connection issues) is that somehow IIS was not able to run websites anymore from a random folder.

I specifically had to give NTFS read/write/execute persmissions to the IIS_IUSR account - or something similar - for that folder to get the site up and running from VS 2019.