The Autocomplete feature in Microsoft Visual Studio can be an annoyance at times. You can turn it off using these steps.
Option 1 – Turn Off Once
When the autocomplete window appears, press the “Escape” key to close it.
Option 2 – Disable Completely
- From Visual Studio, select “Tools” > “Options“.
- Select “Text Editor” in the left pane.
- Select the language you are using (C#, C++, Basic, etc.).
- For C# and Basic, choose “IntelliSense“. For C or C++, choose “Advanced“, then scroll to the “IntelliSense” section.
- For C# and Basic, check the “Show completion list after a character is typed” to disable it. For C/C++, you will have a few options, such as “Disable Auto Updating“, “Disable Squiggles“, and “Disable #include “Auto Complete“. Set any of these to “True” to turn them off.
Another setting to consider is brace completion:
“Tools” > “Options” > “Text Editor” > “All Languages” > “General” > “Automatic brace completion“.
me says
“Show completion list after a character is typed” will disable auto-completion but it will also disable all suggestions, which happen to be really useful. Is there really no way to keep the suggestions but disable the auto-completion when typing? Surely there must be millions of coders out there who want suggestions but are sick of getting burned by incorrect auto-complete and having to hit control-Z all the time because Microsoft can’t get their act together.
Fernando says
You helped me find the option I was looking for. Tnx!
Greg says
Google brought me here but this didn’t work for me. I discovered a big assumption that this needs to work. There must be an active project/solution. Otherwise you can change these settings and it will remember them and show them to you. But, it ignores them and uses some default values. Solution, if your just using the editor on some files (like .ini or .js ect.) you have to make a dummy project/solution and edit the files there.
Anonymous says
Not clear
Adam Mabrouk says
This is not clear