Visual Studio Highlights When I Don't Select Text

Question

I just got to the office and booted up my computer to work on my current project.

I jumped into the class file and selected (via mouse selection) an event group to delete.

What happened was only erasing one character. Upon learning what happened, I clicked at the beginning of the selection and highlighted the text again to delete it again.

So, I just accidentally clicked in the middle of the file and selected it from the beginning of the first selection to the place where I clicked in the middle.

I rebooted both VS and the computer, and insured that the sticky keys and all other accessibility programs were disabled.

UPDATE

When I press shift and try to manually select using the arrow keys, the cursor does not even move.

UPDATE

When I press escape from the selection, it goes on to search: alt text http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/9591/searchbox.png

Answer 1

Reinstalled VS, and now everything will be better.

Answer 2

The same thing happened to me, I pressed the shift key for a few seconds, and then, holding it, I clicked somewhere on the open page in Visual Studio, and my mouse click returned to normal operation.

I assume that I involuntarily activated some keyboard shortcut, but I’m not sure that

Answer 3

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Go to the menu tools → options, under the subtree of the environment, press "Keyboard". Then you will see a drop-down list that says "Apply the following additional keyboard mapping scheme." If you select "Brief" from this, you will get keyboard behavior as described. I’m not quite sure what “Brief” means, but of course this is not familiar to me.

Change the keyboard layout to (default) or to another to get the expected behavior.