Visual Studio - Menu Options - Float Right or Left

Question

I clicked on something in Visual Studio 2017 and now all the dropdown menu options are floating to the left instead of the default right. Below is a print screen of how it should look...

But I get something like this, floats to the left ...

I've gone through the options pretty thoroughly but I can't seem to find the option for this. Does anyone know where the option to control this is?

Answer 1

The direction of the menus in Visual Studio is actually controlled by a setting on OS level. On recent versions of Windows, it's pretty well hidden but you can directly run the following in the Windows -> Run dialog (Win+R) to open the settings dialog:

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and change the radio button in Tablet PC Settings -> Other -> Handedness to Right-handed.

Answer 2

You can change the horizontal direction that the menus in Visual Studio roll out to by editing the registry as well (useful if the "Other" tab in Tablet PC Settings is not visible on your instance of Windows).

Open the registry (type regedit in the start menu and press Enter).

Navigate to this location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows

If you don't have an entry called MenuDropAlignment, right click and create a new StringValue (REG_SZ) called MenuDropAlignment.

Change the value of MenuDropAlignment to be whichever way you want the menus to open to.

0 = Menus open to right (this is the "normal" way that most people expect the menus to open)

1 = Menus open to left

Once you have finished making this change, close everything and restart your machine.