How do I get rid of annoying code tips in Visual Studio 2010?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12271907

Question

When I first open Visual Studio 2010, I accidentally said "Yes" to help/code tips or something. Now whenever I type code, I get these annoying pop-ups explaining what happened or trying to improve my code, etc. These help tips are making it difficult to code and causing Visual Studio to run slowly.

How do I disable them?

Example of one of the annoying code tips

Another example of one of the annoying code tips

Edit: my apologies for posting this. I did not realize it was off-topic. Does Stack Overflow have a proper place for questions about software tools such as IDEs?

Was it helpful?

Solution

These are the help tips from CodeRush which is a IDE productivity tool from DevExpress. You can disable it by going to your tools menu and select DevExpres->UnLoad

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Doing this will not only disable the smart tips, but the whole CodeRush.

Personally, It is not annoying for me. This helps me to be more productive. In a single statment "I love CodeRush to have in my VS environment"

OTHER TIPS

The first of your images is a CodeIssue tip.

These can be toggled on and off via the first icon on the DXCore Visualize toolbar

The second item (the 'What happened' popup) was likely triggered because of a choice made when running VS after installing CodeRush for the first time.

It can be reversed through our options screen:

  • Select DevExpress \ Options
  • Locate the Core \ Features page.
  • Uncheck the first option
  • Click Ok

More detail regarding the 'What happened' popup can be found in this blog post on various CodeRush notifications.

Note: This post refers to version 10.1.5 of CodeRush. The latest version at the time of writing is 12.1.6.

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