updated visual studio to 16.10.3 and keys double

Tarash Sajaia 6 Reputation points
2021-06-30T14:34:01.37+00:00

most likely I'm asking question in a wrong place but its super urgent and I cant find a category of visual studio.

when I updated visual studio it started to double every letter I try to write. also doubles "Backspace" but not "Delete", noticed right and left arrows also double but not up and down. on-screen keyboard behaves exactly the same. everywhere else keyboard works as it should, right now I'm typing without a problem... please help.

in a visual studio only coding area doubles keys. for example "Search Toolbox" and "Search (Ctrl+Q)" does not.

Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Other
Developer technologies | C#
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  1. Karen Payne MVP 35,586 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-06-30T15:57:10.317+00:00

    The best course of action is to report this to Microsoft using the following (upper right corner of the IDE)

    110520-reportissue.png


  2. Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,056 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
    2021-07-02T08:27:17.76+00:00

    Hi @Tarash Sajaia ,

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

    It seems that the issue has been reported in Developer Community:
    https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Visual-Studio-16103-Editor-double-typi/1464938?space=8&q=updated+visual+studio+to+16.10.3+and++double+every+letter

    Please try to run your VS in safe mode: open CMD and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\version name\Common7\IDE folder, run the command: devenv /safemode to run your vs without any extensions, check if the installed extensions affect or not.

    Meanwhile, you can try to repair your VS in Visual Studio Installer > More > Repair.

    Sincerely,
    Anna

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  3. gao jacky 0 Reputation points
    2023-07-12T05:10:46.72+00:00

    I encountered the same issue today, and I discovered that it was caused by this line in my page:<link rel="stylesheet" hef="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.0.0-beta2/css/all.min.css" /> . The double occurrence of each letter disappeared after I removed the line.

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