I'm getting nuts with this!
Suddenly, 2 days ago, my Visual Studio IDE stop responding to any control key (Enter, Insert, Delete, the Arrows, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down, all of them!), but still types in any other alphanumeric key (including the numbers in the keypad with NumLock on)
Obviously this makes editing impossible, and is making me go out of my mind!
This happens with any file type, in any language, even txt files, but only in Visual Studio’s IDE (even god old Notepad behaves perfectly normal and recognizes all keys)
I’ve already done everything I could think of, including uninstalling and reinstalling Visual Studio several times (in one of them I “hunted”, and destroyed with pleasure, all references to it left behind in the hard drive and in the registry), but alas, as soon as I try the newly fresh installs with a simple txt file, I face the same problem all over again!
I don’t recall if I installed anything that could have this side effect and I surely didn’t install anything related to Visual Studio (plugins, addins, whatever…)
If anyone has any idea of what this weird maniac IDE behavior can be, pleeeeeeease drop me a line here before I go mental and start whacking bits and bytes out of the keyboard (which has obviously no fault in this matter, and would be an innocent victim in all this insane situation).
Thank you in advance!
HELP!!! Unresponsive keys in IDE! All of the special keys, including ENTER, DELETE, Arrows, etc! Very weird!!!
Henzrake
That is strange! There was a similar issue in the early betas of VS that had to do with window layout. The workaround at the time was to choose Window | Reset Window Layout. Another option is to try running "devenv /resetuserdata" which should delete all stored settings.
Let me know if either of those works...
Anson
daimaku
I get this problem too but on and off. When ever VS becomes unresposive as you described, I just pary that I have saved everything, kill the devenv process and open it again. If when I open it again it is still not responsive, I close it again and restart my pc ( but I have to do this very rarely).
I usually get this problem when I try to access help by using F1 key or if there is some network problem and I cannot access resources such as DB or some files on a remote server.
I know this is not too helpful but atleast you know you are not the only one getting this.
Shivam
pflangan
Thank you so very much!!!!
"devenv /resetuserdata" did the trick! :-)
If works perfectly now!
There is a new bit of information though that might be interesting to whom it may concern.
Facing the fact that I would have to reset all my customizations I saved all my settings with the “Import and Export Settings Wizard”.
There was an error in the exports of the Keyboard settings ( go figure ;-P ), and so I also saved an export excluding them, just in case.
I also tried the “Reset all settings” in that same “Import and Export Settings Wizard”, to no avail.
Then came the miraculous "devenv /resetuserdata", and suddenly everything works! :-)
So off I go to import my customizations, with the insurance that even if they bring back the problem, there is now a solution.
And as I do it, shivers respond to the popped message:
“Your settings were imported, but there were some errors.
Error 1: An error occurred while importing settings for 'Keyboard'.”
Still, no problem arose from that, I have all my customizations, and I’m still able to edit everything.
So, once again, thank you so much! :-)