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I'm using Visual Studio 2008 and I'm used to C# where when Intellisense pops up, I select what I want by hitting enter and it doesn't skip down to the next line. In VB when I hit the enter on intellisense, I jump to the next line. Does anyone know where the setting for this intellisense option might be?

Tom Ritter
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Paul Mendoza
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    possible duplicate of [VB.NET IntelliSense : Disable newline on ENTER autocomplete](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8977333/vb-net-intellisense-disable-newline-on-enter-autocomplete) – rr- Dec 06 '13 at 22:31

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Hitting the SPACEBAR or TAB key in VB does the same thing that ENTER does in C#.

Chris Allwein
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    Even though I know that TAB does the same as ENTER in C#, I still press ENTER constantly out of habit. I really wish you could configure this. – jrummell Jan 25 '12 at 21:11
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I was bothered by this behavior in VB as well. This will be fixed in the next version of Visual Studio with a new setting for enter-key behavior. https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/pull/11873 Corrected link: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/pull/11769

Julien Couvreur
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  • how does that link relate to either the question or your answer? – Brett Donald Jan 04 '17 at 00:19
  • Oops. I meant to link to the change to Visual Studio that solves the problem described in the question. Here's the correct link: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/pull/11769 Sorry for the confusion. – Julien Couvreur Jan 06 '17 at 07:20
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I know that this doesn't really answer your question, but intellisense is designed to work so that you just push the "next" character to choose the highlighted item (such as open parenthesis, period, semi-colon, etc).

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