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Disabling autocompletion from spacebar in VS 2022

Jingo Unchained 56 Reputation points
2022-03-05T01:02:44.72+00:00

This problem is maddening and the only thing I've found is that 2019 isn't going to see a fix for it. I found a couple listed fixes for earlier versions to remove the spacebar from the list of keys that trigger autocomplete but not even a mention of the issue in 2022.

At any rate, it's incredibly frustrating, to the point that I've just turned off intellisense and intellicode, which is unfortunate because i want to use them. But I'm constantly having to go back and correct its erroneous assumptions. For instance, if I try to create a property called "Name" instead it corrects me to "namespace" - because clearly "public string namespace" is what I was going for and not "public string Name { get; set;}"

I've spent an hour searching through the settings and googling this - how do I disable this in the latest version? Is there a way?

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  1. Anna Xiu-MSFT 27,551 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2022-03-07T08:41:33.003+00:00

    Hi @Jingo Unchained ,

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

    For your requirement, you can try to use the option to change the IntelliSense completion mode: Edit > IntelliSense > Switch between automatic and tab-only IntelliSense completion or shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+Space.

    Or you can also set the IntelliSense completion mode to Tab-only: Tools > Options > Text Editor > Advanced > Default IntelliSense completion mode: > select Tab-only in the dropdown.

    Sincerely,
    Anna
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  1. Yarden Schorr 16 Reputation points
    2023-01-08T10:33:23.187+00:00

    Worked perfectly on visual studio 2022 for me
    *need to restart visual studio 2022

    thanks!!

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  2. Jingo Unchained 56 Reputation points
    2022-03-07T11:34:39.55+00:00

    That works perfectly, thank you so much! I don't know how many times I looked right at that setting and it didn't register. Thank you!

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  3. Dave de Jong 0 Reputation points
    2023-03-07T16:35:20.0133333+00:00

    The Tab-only option works like a charm. Still it's weird that you cannot type spaces in html attributes by default.