Guidelines not visible anymore in the last update
blablubbabc opened this issue · 11 comments
I noticed that the guidelines were no longer rendering. I think VisualStudio automatically installed some update recently (9.1.2023 or so).
I uninstalled the extension and re-installed the old 2.2.8 release from Github and now the Guidelines show again.
The right-click menu still worked (add, remove guidelines). But no guidelines were actually rendered.
Visual Studio installation info:
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022
Version 17.1.0
VisualStudio.17.Release/17.1.0+32210.238
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.8.03761
You're still on 17.1?
You might be hitting some variant of #87
Can you update Visual Studio to 17.4 or 17.5? Run the Visual Studio Installer and look for updates.
Yeah, I am still on 17.1. I have seen the notes in the other ticket about 17.1, but since the previous version works fine for me, I guessed that this issue must be caused by something different (maybe related to the the net 7 sdk change, since there have been no other changes).
I am usually rather slow on updates since I don't want to accidentally break some part of my setup. I can let you know once I updated.
Well, there's a workaround for 17.1 listed in #87 you can try (uninstall the "Developer Analytics Tools").
I have been using this (awesome) extension in VS2022 for months with no problem (all versions up to the latest 17.4 version). For other reasons, I recently had to uninstall and reinstall Visual Studio. I'm now running version 17.5.1. I didn't get any errors during installation of the EditorGuidelines.vsix, and I see no errors in the IDE when using the extension, but the guidelines just won't render. Is there something I'm missing or need to do?
Here are a few things I've tried to troubleshoot the problem:
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Most of my repos have the guidelines defined in an
.editorconfigfile. To rule that configuration out as a source of the problem, I tried creating a dummy project without an.editorconfig, but no dice. -
I tried manually using the right mouse click menu to add a guideline, and I think this "worked" (because if I try to add another at the same column, the menu item is grayed out, suggesting the extension knows there's already one there), but it never renders in the code editor.
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Uninstall and reinstall the extension.
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Uninstall and install version 2.2.8, but it wouldn't let me install that, because I think VS is newer than the extension supports.
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I've tried changing the colors in the Fonts and Colors dialog for the guidelines, but no luck there either.
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I confirmed that I have the "Developer Analytics Tool" installed, but that seemed like a solution to a problem specific to VS 17.1 anyway.
Is this maybe a 17.5.1 incompatibility?
Any help would be much appreciated. I can't live without this extension!
Yeah, I am still on 17.1. I have seen the notes in the other ticket about 17.1, but since the previous version works fine for me, I guessed that this issue must be caused by something different (maybe related to the the net 7 sdk change, since there have been no other changes).
I am usually rather slow on updates since I don't want to accidentally break some part of my setup. I can let you know once I updated.
Just as a quick follow-up on this: On a different environment I am currently using VisualStudio 17.4.2, .net 7 SDK, and EditorGuidelines 2.2.9 without problems.
Just to follow up on this. I struggled without the editor guidelines for the last two weeks, and really missed them. And then completely randomly today they showed up, without me (knowingly) doing anything to make them appear. Extremely strange. But they're back now, and I'm happy again!