Visual Studio enter/tab/backspace/arrow keys stopping working

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_{Tuesday, October 20, 2015 9:37 AM}

Hi,

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 Community on Win10. While studying on VB editor, randomly, after running a project, the enter/tab/arrow/backspace etc. keys are stopping  to function. Alt-enter, resetting keyboard, closing or pinning autohidden windows doesn't help.  Closing  and opening the project also doesn't help, the only way is to close and reopen Visual Studio. Does anybody have a solution for this?

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_{Tuesday, October 20, 2015 9:39 AM}

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_{Wednesday, October 21, 2015 4:55 AM | 2 votes}

Hi Osman Tansel,

Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.

For your issue, to make sure whether it is related to your settings, please take the following steps to reset your settings to see if it helps:

Please open Windows Explorer, and navigate to  <Visual Studio Installation Path>\Common7\IDE (by default is C:\Program Files or Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE), and run the following commands:

a.devenv.exe /resetsettings, it will restore Visual Studio default settings. Optionally resets the settings to the specified .vssettings file.
b.devenv.exe /resetuserdata, it will take a couple of minutes to run as Visual Studio cleans up and sets itself back to its original state. You may open Task Manager at this point to check whether the devenv.exe process is still running. After it has completed running, you can restart Visual Studio.

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_{Wednesday, October 21, 2015 6:48 AM}

Hi,

if the Control keys dont respond after running, just run the project again. This might be related to:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/1695522/visual-studio-stops-responding-to-control-keys

Regards,

  Thorsten

_{Thursday, October 22, 2015 9:02 AM}

Hi Osman Tansel,

Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.

For your issue, to make sure whether it is related to your settings, please take the following steps to reset your settings to see if it helps:

Please open Windows Explorer, and navigate to  <Visual Studio Installation Path>\Common7\IDE (by default is C:\Program Files or Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE), and run the following commands:

a.devenv.exe /resetsettings, it will restore Visual Studio default settings. Optionally resets the settings to the specified .vssettings file.
b.devenv.exe /resetuserdata, it will take a couple of minutes to run as Visual Studio cleans up and sets itself back to its original state. You may open Task Manager at this point to check whether the devenv.exe process is still running. After it has completed running, you can restart Visual Studio.

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Hi Jiaji Li,

Thanks for the reply. Since I couldn't manage to run devenv.exe \resetsettings from the Windows Explorer, I opened the path from command prompt and executed the commands at steps a and b, then I turned on line numbering and changed font size. If I shall not face the problem in a week, I'll mark as answer.

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_{Thursday, October 22, 2015 1:30 PM}

Nope, again the same problem occurred. I didn't restart the visual studio, after running the simple lesson code again, keyboard became normal.

_{Friday, October 23, 2015 7:17 AM | 3 votes}

Hi Osman Tansel,

Please go to Tools -> Options -> General -> Keybord, you will see the following window, and click the "Reset" to see if it helps:

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_{Wednesday, October 28, 2015 6:50 AM}

Hi,

as I mentioned in the beginning, this doesn't help.

BR

_{Thursday, October 29, 2015 8:31 AM}

Hi Osman Tansel,

According to the link that Thorsten Gudera provided, please try the following to see if it helps:

If you're interested in the details, you can see the fix here: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/pull/5747. This should be in the first update to Visual Studio 2015.

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_{Friday, December 25, 2015 3:36 PM}

Hi, I had the same problem and I removed the conflicting Chinese Input Method(IME) software to solve it. Best Regards.