How to turn on tooltips in Visual Studio

Question

How can I turn on tooltips for functions ? I mean if I want to call a function I have to insert proper parameters into that function. Normally Visual Studio shows a tooltip which shows hints about that function(parameters,descriptions etc). However somehow this tooltip doesn't show. How can I turn it on ?

Answer 1

I had the same problem on my side. Here it was related to the fact that I had two screens with different solutions (e.g. 100% and 125%).

Another strange symptom was that some editors (Source Control Explorer, History) were only fully displayed after they had been refreshed (e.g. by resizing).

Answer 2

In the latest VS software:

Only thing that works for me is "Hold Alt and press Enter for popup". No need to click the popup marker on the far left anymore..

Answer 3

I have the same problem. Tried all the button combinations:

Ctrl+Space
Ctrl+ +
Ctrl+Shift+Space

and checked settings Tools > Options > Text Editor But nothing helped me. Problem was solved just by restart Visual Studio.

Answer 4

Have you tried Ctrl+Shift+Space?