How do I get rid of annoying code tips in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

When I first open Visual Studio 2010, I accidentally said "Yes" to help/code tips or something. Now whenever I type code, I get these annoying pop-ups explaining what happened or trying to improve my code, etc. These help tips are making it difficult to code and causing Visual Studio to run slowly.

How do I disable them?

Example of one of the annoying code tips

Another example of one of the annoying code tips

Edit: my apologies for posting this. I did not realize it was off-topic. Does Stack Overflow have a proper place for questions about software tools such as IDEs?

@Macmade, how is a question about Visual Studio configuration off-topic? — Brandon, Sep 04 '12 at 22:00
i.e For C/C++ `Quick Info`, you'd set `Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Advanced->Auto Quick Info` to `False`. Check if that may help! — Mayura, Sep 04 '12 at 22:03
@Macmade, questions about software tools used by programmers (including IDE's) are explicitly mentioned in the FAQ as being on-topic. — Brandon, Sep 04 '12 at 22:03

Shyju · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-04T22:05:15.663

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These are the help tips from CodeRush which is a IDE productivity tool from DevExpress. You can disable it by going to your tools menu and select DevExpres->UnLoad

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Doing this will not only disable the smart tips, but the whole CodeRush.

Personally, It is not annoying for me. This helps me to be more productive. In a single statment "I love CodeRush to have in my VS environment"

edited Sep 04 '12 at 22:05

answered Sep 04 '12 at 22:00

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Will this remove DevExpress as well? Will it affect all users or just me (it's on our server)? – Lifes Sep 04 '12 at 22:24
@Lindsay, Nope, it will just not load coderush, and just for your visual studio. – Maarten Sep 05 '12 at 07:23

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 05 '12 at 07:18

The first of your images is a CodeIssue tip.

These can be toggled on and off via the first icon on the DXCore Visualize toolbar

The second item (the 'What happened' popup) was likely triggered because of a choice made when running VS after installing CodeRush for the first time.

It can be reversed through our options screen:

Select DevExpress \ Options
Locate the Core \ Features page.
Uncheck the first option
Click Ok

More detail regarding the 'What happened' popup can be found in this blog post on various CodeRush notifications.

Note: This post refers to version 10.1.5 of CodeRush. The latest version at the time of writing is 12.1.6.

How do I get rid of annoying code tips in Visual Studio 2010?

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