Visual Studio 2008 Plays a Ding when I type Comma

Question

On multiple machines, and seemingly at random, Visual Studio 2008 will play a ding sound when I type comma.  When it is happening, it will continue to happen no matter how often I type a comma.  Eventually it will mysteriously stop happening, and then just as mysteriously start happening again later.  This may be limited to Vista.  It happens while editing .idl, .h and .cpp files (and probably others).  What is this?  Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi,

I have never seen this behaviour (on any of my development machines). It's almost if you have an invalid keybinding (or defective keyboard). Do your collegues have the same issue? If not, it may have something to do with your instalations (there must be overlap between the machines, right?!)

Kind regards,
Tom de Koning

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Answer 2

My install of Visual Studio 2008 started doing the same thing the other day. However this is not on Vista, but Win 7 Pro x64. It happens in some source files and not others. I can confirm it happening in one .h file and not another .h file in the same project. Also, possibly related, I started getting linker crashes at the same time. The linker crashes happen during some compiles and not others on the same project with no changes to source files in between. I could provide the entire project folder (it's a college project, nothing sensitive) in a zip file or .7z if it would be helpful to anyone. I'm quite intrigued that our problems started at virtually the same time (on/around Friday 11/19/2010).

Answer 3

I also encountered this for the first time today.  I was editing a C++ file and it seemed VS2008 would play a dinging sound every time I typed a comma, in particular.  I narrowed this behavior down and noticed it was happening only when there was an open parenthesis behind my keyboard input caret, for example when I was editing a function declaration.  I wondered if this might be related to intellisense or something along those lines, so after some investigating around in Tools -> Options I was able to correlate the problem in my case to parameter information listing. 

Disabling the checkbox  at: 

Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> General -> [Statement Completion] Parameter information

resolved the annoyance in my case.