Since Visual Studio 2010 was originally built to support newer versions/future version of the .Net Framework, .Net 4.5 support should be added to Visual Studio 2010 since Visual Studio 2012 has significantly reduced the usability and productivity of the IDE by discoloring the UI as well as removing critical features such as "Creating Unit Test". Adding .Net 4.5 support to Visual Studio 2010 would allow developers who do not wish to upgrade to Visual Studio 2012 the ability to continue using their favorite IDE with the latest .Net technology.

Provide the option as part of the Visual Studio installation to only choose the PowerPoint storyboarding add-in rather than the entire Visual Studio suite. This would be especially useful for graphic designers that may need tools such as PowerPoint storyboarding add-in and not the full version of Visual Studio.

As per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/694730/why-is-set-as-startup-option-stored-in-the-sou-file-and-not-the-sln-file/1808264#1808264 , store the Startup Project(s) selected in the IDE in the .sln file, but allow them to be overridden by Startup Project(s) stored in the .suo file.

Custom code generation becomes more and more important. For example network messages can be described using .xls file (each message field is one Excel cell).

At the moment T4 cannot be used to gen multiple files from one model with one template.

In case of networking multiple files must be generated: a class file per message, a switch method for dispatching messages, a parser, an asynch handler of messages and timeouts, ...

Include Code Contracts features in all editions of Visual Studio. Requiring Ultimate edition makes this very useful feature useless when working with others who do not have Visual Studio Ultimate.

As a side note, I talked this feature up at our company from Spec# to the Code Contracts SDK only to be disappointing when we couldn't adopt it in the end because it was exclusive to higher additions of Visual Studio, we currently use Professional.

The new code clone detection feature seems to be very tightly coupled to the project object model exposed by the IDE. This essentially makes it impossible to use within automated builds. Please consider changing the "innards" so that the tool can be used to break an automated build (including builds run outside the IDE) when duplicate code is found.

As I understand it these attributes are limited to use in WinRT/Metro and now with update 2, Windows Phone 8. It would be very helpful to be able to use them in all test projects e.g.

[DataTestMethod]
[DataRow("a", "b")]
[DataRow(" ", "a")]
public void TestMathos1(string value1, string value2)
{
Assert.AreEqual(value1 + value2, string.Concat(value1, value2));
}

When doing a team based code review from a Code Review item we would like the ability to directly create a task from a code review comment.

This would help ensure that team agreements made during a code review are met and keep track of work created from a code review.

Please provide sorting based on file, warning type, etc. in the Code Analysis window in Visual Studio 2012

Recently, VS2012 Update 1 CTP has been released. I've installed the update and tried to use command prompt to build the 3rd-party library (some 3rd-party library uses its build script, for example, boost).

However, the default SDK environment in command prompt is still using WinSDK 8.0.

if can, providing the command prompt with the environment same as platform target v110_xp (WinSDK 7.1A) will be better.

Include Code Contracts features in all editions of Visual Studio. Requiring Ultimate edition makes this very useful feature useless when working with others who do not have Visual Studio Ultimate.

As a side note, I talked this feature up at our company from Spec# to the Code Contracts SDK only to be disappointing when we couldn't adopt it in the end because it was exclusive to higher additions of Visual Studio, we currently use Professional.

The Dataset Designer becomes a headache when you have dozens, if not more, tables. It is difficult to find the TableAdapter you are looking for unless you already know exactly where it is. Additionally, the Data Source Wizard likes to blow away your current layout and replace it with it's own. The designer needs a better way to organize the tableadapters. Something similar is available in MS ACCESS.

It would be great if there were a way to insert XML comments into the web.config files through Web.Config Transformations.

At the top of the web.config files, I like to add notes or comments in XML, so it's easy for a Release Engineer to view the file and quickly verify the web.config is correct.

For example, I like to add something like below to the top of the web.config:
<!-- ***** -->
<!-- Environment: DEV -->
<!-- ***** -->

Test impact and MTM introduce great testing support for functional and no functional test that it should be available to all developers. The ultimate edition price reduce the opportunity for small/medium company to use this kind of functionalities.

I think there is a need to have a mocking library inside .Net Framework which which quicken us to do a unit testing. As TDD growing, I think it will be handy if there is a default mocking framework comes by default from VS

in "Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > General" you can set "track active item in Solution Explorer". This feature allow you to see always your current location of the editing file within the project.

Same feature would be nice for class view, too.