Quick Watch Window Resets Column Widths On Open

Quick Watch Window Resets Column Widths On Open by Bob Cohen

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as Fixed

Type:	Bug
ID:	776398
Opened:	1/12/2013 9:23:15 AM
Access Restriction:	Public

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I submitted this a couple of years ago on VS 2010, but it's worse now on VS 2012:

Whenever I open a Quick Watch window (ctrl/D,Q), all of the column widths reset themselves to some original default value. This is a REAL PAIN-IN-THE-BUTT since I OFTEN want to see the object type in the right-hand column.

In VS 2010 the columns were only reset when I exited the whole IDE and came back in later on. Now it happens EVERY TIME THE WINDOW OPENS!!!

PLEASE: RELIEF!!!

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Visual Studio 2012

1) Set a breakpoint in a program
2) Hit the breakpoint
3) Do a ctrl D/Q
4) Adjust the column widths
5) Close the window
6) Open it again!!!

English

Windows 8

English

COLUMNS ALWAYS RESET!!!

PLEASE REMEMBER MY COLUMN WIDTHS!!! INTER-SESSION WOULD BE BEST!!! INTRA-SESSION WOULD BE AN IMPROVEMENT!!!

File Name	Submitted By	Submitted On	File Size
Exported-2013-01-15.zip	Bob Cohen	1/15/2013	31 KB

Posted by Microsoft on 1/17/2013 at 11:19 AM

Thanks for your suggestion. We will consider this in a future release. We also suggest that you log your suggestion on our user voice site where others can vote on this as well.
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/

Thanks,
Visual Studio Debugger Team

Posted by Microsoft on 1/17/2013 at 2:56 AM

Thanks for your response. We are rerouting this issue to the appropriate group within the Visual Studio Product Team for triage and resolution. These specialized experts will follow-up with your issue.

Posted by Bob Cohen on 1/15/2013 at 5:11 PM

I have attached my settings file.

I also tried the reset operation from within VS and externally: Neither solution helped.

Posted by Microsoft on 1/13/2013 at 11:47 PM

Thanks for reporting the issue. In order to fix the issue, we must first reproduce the issue in our labs. We are unable to reproduce the issue with the steps you provided.

Please export and reset environment settings file by clicking Tools-> Import and Export Settings, after that, please zip the file and send it to us so that we can conduct further.

Please try this (from a Visual Studio command prompt with devenv in the path):
devenv /resetuserdata

Please submit this information to us within 4 business days. We look forward to hearing from you with this information.

Microsoft Visual Studio Connect Support Team

Posted by Microsoft on 1/12/2013 at 9:52 AM

Thank you for your feedback, we are currently reviewing the issue you have submitted. If this issue is urgent, please contact support directly(http://support.microsoft.com)