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  1. Provide ability to specify physical folders for Visual Studio Solution Folders

    Currently, Visual Studio only supports the creation of logical folders as Solution Folders. However, all types of additional information such as UML Models, external reference assemblies, additional diagrams, ReadMe files, strong name keys etc. that need to be associated with a Visual Studio solution should be able to incorporated into a Solution Folder. However, the current restriction to a Logical Folder forces that all of the items already exist elsewhere on disk or attached to a Visual Studio project. It would be much easier if this could be mapped directly to a physical folder located on disk that is associated…

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      0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Allow the association of a CSS file with a control to enable intellisense

      Much of our work is in a content management type of project. This means we have multiple controls making up the pages in the project. The CSS files are referenced, largely, in master pages and parent controls. It would be really handy to be able to right click in the source editor of the control and click a menu item that would allow you to associate it with a CSS file to get the intellisense for the styles. This would prevent having to temporarily putting a link tag on the page that you could end up forgetting about.

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        1 comment  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Globally Define Computers and Counter Sets to Monitor

        I want this feature to added for Load testing in VS ultimate. In load test run settings we define web and DB servers to be monitored. As our environment change everytime, I wanted something managable way to define computers names, so we can modify them from single point. We don't have to go in each load test and modify computers name. I want to define somewhere in config or glabal file and access those values as property in Run settings.

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          1 comment  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Help system choose

          Make user can change Help System in Visual Studio 2010 -
          Visual Studio 2010 Help system or Visual Studio 2008 Help System (old Microsoft Document Explorer)

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            0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • Provide new project option to have all binaries (obj bin) outside MyDocuments

            Provide new project option to have all binaries (obj / bin) outside MyDocuments to make LiveMesh Sync faster. This can be done already by hand, for example by settings all your binary folders to go to T:\Build\ (or any other drive or folder).
            By doing this, Windows Live Mesh would only have to Sync source code and resources off MyDocuments across all my PCs, as I can always rebuild.
            Having the option in the Wizard will save some time, and will allow a more standard location for binaries, tying in with Visual Studio Team Foundation test / build setups

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              0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Performance check as part of compilation

              If visual studio can do reverse engineering to the code and create unit test, why not as part of the compilation prompt the developer that the code will be bad from performance prospective, the earlier we detect that the sooner it will be fixed. you can use some AI or NN to do that in low CPU.

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                0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • Allow a Controller Level LoadTestPlugin for Global Parameters

                Take this scenario;

                You are running a large test which needs to spread over X amount of Agents.
                You may need to switch between web servers in the future as other versions of the web applications may be hosted elsewhere

                Wouldn't it be nice if a form could be initiated at the controller level to select which server to use (it could extend to all sorts of global parameter settings). Then this builds an app.settings file (or adds to it) which can be deployed with the rest of the items for the agents to use

                Currently I have only managed…

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                  0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Provide integrated software licensing tools

                  Provide integrated software licensing tools with releases of Visual Studio in a manner similar to the current integration points between Dotfuscator, Crystal Reports and Installshield Limited Edition. Software licensing by modules, features, assemblies etc. and licensing registration and activation are a core part of software development practices today. Therefore, Visual Studio should offer some type of integrated software licensing that provide features similar to the Microsoft Office and Windows software registration and licensing mechanisms.

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                    0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • add ability to sort and filter view-history results

                    View-history results on a file or folder or project or solution are impossible to filter (in order to see less and more specific results). For example, I often know which user made a change, but I don't know when. Maybe even search comments. Dates are easy to spot. User and comments then (and combination) is what I'd like to see.

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                      0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • Add a search capability inside QuickWatch

                      I need to be able search inside the variables that inside the QuickWatch

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                        0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Move the "Run Code Analysis on Solution" option underneath Rebuild and Clean solution

                        The VS 11 Beta has placed the "Run Code Analysis on Solution" option in the Build menu where "Rebuild Solution" was previously. I can't be the only one who keeps choosing it instead of Rebuild Solution. Please move it beneath so that it is consistent with previous versions of VS.

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                          2 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Provide default language setting for new Visual Studio projects

                          When creating new Visual Studio projects, there is no "Default Language" setting available when creating new projects. Therefore, for a developer such as myself that often needs to work in both VB.Net but works on mainly C# projects, I have to continually check whether or not I am choosing the right language for development of my new projects. Instead, there should be a Visual Studio option to set the default language for all new Visual Studio projects. Therefore, since I regularly work with C#, it will always default to C#, however, if I need to do so for a particular…

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                            0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • Visual Studio can have “Go Offline” option besides “Go Online”

                            TFS consumes a lot of memory usually. Therefore, using Visual Studio to connect to TFS makes CPU 100%. When I make it offline , everything is working properly. I hope Visual Studio can have “Go Offline” option besides “Go Online”

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                              0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • separate Visual Studio Ultimate from MSDN

                              I don't mind that certain features are a part of a higher sku like things that only work in VS Ultimate. I want VS Ultimate but not MSDN Ultimate. It's price prohibitive for developers not working for a huge corporation.

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                                0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • SyntaxNode serialization

                                All of the roslyn SyntaxNodes need to be xml serializable. There is a lot of rich information in the object model, we need to be able to serialize any/all of it at will (without going through a bunch of extra work).

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                                  0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • Make column widths sticky in the Add Reference dialog

                                  The default column widths in the various tabs within the Add Reference dialog are pretty narrow and tend to hide the full text. I find myself widening them so I can see what I'm selecting. The next time I display Add Reference I have to do the same thing over again - widen the columns so I can see the text. Other dialogs and other applications remember how wide you last sized the columns.

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                                    1 comment  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • Make "New Interface..." a first-class citizen

                                    It should simply work like "New Class"... That's pretty much it. Just a shortcut to "New Item..." + "Interface".

                                    Thanks a lot!

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                                      0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • add ability to save open-file state so that it can be recalled at a later time.

                                      We all get interrupted while working on one thing in a solution, and need to start looking at an unrelated other thing in the same solution. When solutions are large - and when we're new to them - memorizing their structure (file locations, object relations, etc) and code placement is difficult. I'd like to be able to save the state of opened files somewhere (to some file), and be able to restore/reopen those files later.

                                      I am not confusing this with shelving - at this point, my open files may not have any of my changes at all, as I…

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                                      • Microsoft Word dictionary in Visual Studio projects

                                        Use the Microsoft Word dictionary to check spelling in strings used in MessageBoxs and other sites in the Visual Studio projects

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                                        • Coded UI Test VS2012 RC

                                          Why have we removed the Test List Editor which was there in VS2010. Due to this we are unable to check/unckeck the test methods to run.

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