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I am using Visual Studio Professional 2022 v 17.14.16 using dark theme, and I have the following issue.
As an example, I have a datetime picker control with some events coded in my application.
When I have selected the control in the editor from the dropdown controls, the active events that have been coded are no longer shown in bold text when I click the event handler dropdown list, as show in the below screen snip.
N.B. This behaviour is consistent for all controls that I have used.
Is there a setting that I can change to enable this feature, as I find this extremely useful for me, which was in pervious versions of Visual Studio.
I have spent a lot of time looking in the options, but I cannot find a setting that matches what I want to change.
Any help is much appreciated.
If you need any further information, please let me know, and I will try and provide that.
Many Thanks
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It seems to work. However, it appears that you are not using the default colours or dark theme. Did you customise the colours or apply a different dark theme?
Hi Viorel,
No customisations to colours were made, other than selecting dark theme.
It seems that the desired functionality exists in Visual Studio Community 2022 17.14.16 and it is unlikely to be restored in other versions.
Answer accepted by question author
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Hi Chris,
Thank you for reaching out. Based on your screenshot, it looks like you’re referring to the old WinForms event handler list.
In earlier versions of Visual Studio, the event dropdown menu (at the top of the code editor) displayed events that were already implemented for a control in bold text.
In Visual Studio 2022, this bold highlighting was removed as part of modernizing the editor’s dropdown menus and reworking the UI rendering pipeline.
Since this is not a configurable setting, you can use the Properties Window (lightning bolt tab) by following these steps:
Select the control in the designer. Open the Properties window → Events tab. Events with handlers are still highlighted by showing their handler names.
This is currently the only official way to quickly identify which events are hooked up.
Alternatively, you can use Go To Definition / Find All References:
Right click the control name → Go to Definition → check its event hookups in the
.Designer.vb/ .Designer.csfile.
You can help our development team to improve the experience in future updates by sending your feedback.
Please go to Help → Send Feedback → Suggest a Feature in Visual Studio.
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Hi Leon,
Many thanks for your detailed response and for confirming that a feature I used a lot has been removed.
I need to remember to use the properties window (lightning bolt tab) to view hooked up events as you suggest.