Alt Enter not working in VS2017 15.5.2

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I'm trying to get Alt+Enter to work in VS2017 15.5.2 Enterprise on my machine.

I tried to reapply the Visual Studio keyboard scheme in R# options and reset Visual Studio's keyboard shortcuts multiple times.

I assigned the Alt+Enter shortcut in the keyboard settings to the ReSharper_AltEnter shortcut entry.

 

I noticed four things about the AltEnter behaviour:

1.) If I start Visual Studio by opening a solution directly, I can use AltEnter as usual until Visual Studio is fully loaded. So Resharper seems to correctly detect and process the Alt+Enter shortcut while it is loading.

2.) After Visual Studio is fully loaded, everytime I use Alt+Enter I just get the "Enter Action Name: " menu popup, the same  you get if you use "Ctrl+Shift+A" (GoToAction). So despite having set GoToAction and AltEnter to different shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+A and Alt+Enter respectively) both shortcuts open the same popup menu.

3.) I don't know if this helps but I also noticed that the quick actions shortcut of VS (Ctrl+.) doesn't work if I have ReSharper loaded. I tried to assign Ctrl+. to ReSharper_AltEnter, too, but without any (visible) effect.

4.) I also noticed that AltEnter just doesn't seem to work when editing .cs files (more general if I'm in the code editor) but if I work in the XAML designer view and edit xaml code, the regular AltEnter context menu works just fine.

Is there anything else I can try or is this a known bug? I really would like to use the regular AltEnter context menu again.

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Hello!

 

Thank you for the feedback.

Sorry for some weird suggestion, but could you please try rebooting your machine and check if the problem is still reproduced.

Thank you.

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Thanks Angelina for your fast reply, your suggestion seems to work :)

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Suffering from the same problem here, but nothing worked (vs version 15.5.2, resharper 2017.3.1).

UPDATE Working again after updating vs to version 15.5.3.

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I'm encoutering this issue now.

I'm on Visual Studio 16.8.4 and Resharper 2020.3.4.

I tried to fix by assigning ReSharper_AltEnter to Alt+Enter globally and verified that it didn't conflict with other shortcut, and it doens't. It definitely doesn't conflict with another resharper keybinding for "Enter Action Name"

This looks like a very nasty bug. Very frustrating. This is so "Yuck".

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Hello Sambauwens

Thank you for contacting us! I've replied in the corresponding support ticket.

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