Visual Studio 2005 paste / ctrl-v highlighting stuck on

Question

Hello,

One of my Visual Studio 2005 solutions has the following problem:

when I cut and then past some text, the highlight remains ON after pasting.

This just recently started happening, and does not happen in any of my other VS2005 solutions/projects.

Thoughts?

Answer 1

I should also note:

The solution is a "Classic ASP" one.

And it seems to be extension-related, happening for .asp and .htm extensions but not, say, .xml and other extensions.

Answer 2

Oy, and the solution does not matter -- just the file extension.

That is, if I open up .asp or .htm files from a c++ project I see the same behavior.

Answer 3

Hi Dick,

I cannot reproduce this issue.

Please try to create a new project, and then try to cut and pase some text, see whether this issue still exists.

If this issue remains, please try the following steps:

1. reboot the operating system to safe mode. This can help to isolate whether any other applications are interfering with Visual Studio.

2. create a new user account. This can help to isolate user profile corruption related causes.

3. disable Add-ins (e.g. “Tools” | “Add-in Manager”) and run “devenv.exe /safemode”. This can eliminate the possibility that third party Add-ins are causing problems.

4. use “devenv.exe /resetsettings”. It restores Visual Studio default settings.

5. use Visual Studio Setup Wizard (via Control Panel) to repair Visual Studio. It can restore the Visual Studio Installation into its original state.

If there is any update about this issue, please feel free to let us know.

Thank you for your understanding!

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Lucy Liu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

Hi Dick,

I temporary make my last reply as answer. You can unmark it if they provide no help.

Thank you for your understanding!

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Lucy Liu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 5

Yeah, that's not really an answer.

I suspect there is some simple setting that I need to tweak.  I do not have the time to do all those things to try and track it down so for now I will live with this defect.