Visual Studio / VB.Net 2008 IntelliSense Odd Behavior

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I am primarily a C# developer; however, I am currently working on a project for a client who preferred VB.net. I have managed to switch over fairly well, with one frustrating exception. When editing a C# file in Visual Studio pressing enter will select an item out of the IntelliSense window and keep the cursor at the end of the selected statement.

However, when editing a VB file, pressing enter selects the item out the IntelliSense popup AND moves the cursor to the next line. I realize that this is a small thing, but it drives me crazy, because it makes it really hard to switch between C# and VB projects.

I have searched for everything I can think of in Google and found nothing. Does anyone know of a way to change the IntelliSense selection behavior? Thanks in advance.

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Can't check right now, but I think SPACE (or was it TAB?) works the same for C# and VB, so it might be worth switching the habit to something portable between VB and C#. – Heinzi
Hit Tab instead of Enter and it will stay on the same line. – NoAlias
I moved from VB to C# and continued to use tab to select items from IntelliSense!!! – NaveenBhat
The question is not about tab or space but how to modify the behaviour of the ENTER key. – Martin
The tab and/or space keys are definitely an option, but it would be nice if I could modify the existing behavior to accommodate my existing habit. :) – Dovan Rogars

2 Answers

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It just can't be done with VB.NET for now, according to this thread from Microsoft.

One reader there suggested and open source IDE called SharpDevelop to get C# behaviors on VB.NET code.

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Please use the CTRL+SPACEBAR to use Intellisense of popup. This will effect of your Intellisense in between VB and C#.