VS2022 Popups

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VS2022 Popups

Jeff Gaines 351

Every time I try to use VS2022 I end up running back to VS2008. I have installed it on a spare PC and I am finding several issues which I will raise in separate posts as recommended in the forum.

In VS2022 there is a plethora of popups that keep appearing and trying to second guess what I want to do. For instance when going through a file using Find/Replace, once I have replace the original word once then every time I get to the next occurrence the replacement appears in a light text on top of the old text and I can't tell if I have replaced it or not. Can this be turned off?

Can other annoying popups be turned off? The Options dialog is nearly as big as War and Peace now!

David Lowndes 4,721 Reputation points

2023-03-25T15:20:47.9466667+00:00

Without seeing an example of what you describe it's difficult to be sure which feature you're referring to. I suspect it may be an IntelliSense or the new IntelliCode feature - try filtering for those words in the Options dialog.

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David Lowndes 4,721 Reputation points

2023-03-25T15:20:47.9466667+00:00

Without seeing an example of what you describe it's difficult to be sure which feature you're referring to. I suspect it may be an IntelliSense or the new IntelliCode feature - try filtering for those words in the Options dialog.

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Ayomide Oluwaga 901

Hello Jeff,

In answer to your question, Yes, there are ways to customize the popups and dialogs in Visual Studio 2022 to better suit your preferences. For the issue you mentioned with the Find/Replace dialog, you can disable the "Preview changes" option in the dialog to prevent the light text from appearing over the old text.

To disable other popups and dialogs, you can go to the "Tools" menu in Visual Studio and select "Options". From there, you can navigate to different categories such as "Text Editor" or "Environment" to customize specific settings related to popups and dialogs.

For example, under the "Text Editor" category, you can disable the "CodeLens" feature which displays additional information about code such as references and changes.

It may take some time to explore and adjust the various settings to your liking, but with some tweaking, you can customize Visual Studio 2022 to work more efficiently for you.

I will try to follow your other issues, let me know if this was helpful enough

Jeff Gaines 351 Reputation points

2023-03-28T08:22:28.44+00:00

Thanks Ayomide :-)
VIC 0 Reputation points

2025-04-19T07:54:07.39+00:00

Sir, I'm sorry but your answer was not very helpful, can you please explain how to turn off the pop -ups? the ones that pop up when when the cursor hovers over the argument of a function, the box is massive and only gets in the way. This is a serious flaw and I cannot find anyone with a clear answer as to how to stop this. The popup shows the documentation of the function and it covers almost the whole screen. it makes highlighting and setting the cursor insanely difficult.

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