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  1. Introduce the Enhanced Scroll Bars Feature

    I use it with productivity power tools in VS2010 and it's very helpfull.
    Thanks

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      1 comment  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Alt+Up and Alt+Down shortcuts to move a line of code up and down

      The Productivity Power Tool already provides this feature. It would be nice to have it natively in the VS11 editor.

      Pressing Alt+Down moves the current line of code down.
      Pressing Alt+Up moves the current line of code up.

      27 votes
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        0 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Complete Intellisense for c++ just like in c# and visual basic

        While working in c# and visual basic and even in ASP.Net, We are getting full intellisense support and it reduces a lot of pain in writing the program. Further, c# and visual basic programs are easy to be written and are small and compact .

        Whereas in the case of Programming with Direct x and Win32 API
        in C and Using the MFC library with c++, even the most simple 'hello world' program is more than 200 lines and there are thousands of functions but the intellisense support is very very few.It just lists class ,structure ao an enumeration members…

        26 votes
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          2 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Enable track changes indicator in editor accross file open/close

          The track changes indicator in VS editor is reset once the file is closed. It would be great if the indicator would integrate with the active source control provider and show the uncommitted changes in a file when re-opening the file in the editor.

          26 votes
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            0 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • Fix Drag and drop to open file when running as Administrator

            Dragging & dropping a file when running VS as administrator doesn't work, yet you must run VS as administrator when using IIS for debugging etc.

            Reference: connectID 537964 from 3/1/2010
            http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/537964/drag-and-drop-to-open-file-is-not-working-when-run-as-administrator

            25 votes
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              4 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Add multi-line support to Find/Replace

              Please add multi-line support (with intelligent highlight/copy/paste into the search box) to all existing Find/Replace features. In other words, if the user highlights multiple lines and hits Ctrl+F, the search box should automagically expand slightly and show a scroll bar.

              For non-evangelist, real devs, this feature alone would save MANY hours of development time.

              25 votes
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                0 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • 24 votes
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                  0 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Allow multiple copy operation(some thing similar in Microsoft Office)

                  Allow/Have multiple COPY operation feature in IDE(Cntlr + C) - some thing similar in Microsoft Office - Clipboard.

                  Where developer could copy multiple items/string/code snippet and paste which ever is required and have an option(key board shortcut) to clear the clipboard items like we have in Microsoft word etc.,

                  22 votes
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                    3 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Split VS11 windows horizontally and vertically the at same time.

                    It would be nice if you could split VS11 windows horizontally and vertically (read: create a vertical tab group on a horizontal tab group and vice versa) the at same time as display size increases constantly.

                    So you'll be able to have a arrangement of your files like http://jsfiddle.net/ provides.

                    22 votes
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                      1 comment  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • SPELL CHECK in code editor

                      Please allow the code editor to support SPELL CHECK, so that comments and other things that are no code can be checked, this is very annoying to read some developer that can't spell. Also, it REALLY would help in the HTML source view, so I know that the content typed on my web pages are spell checked.

                      Couldn't you just use the MS Word spell checker as an addon?

                      22 votes
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                        0 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Add Simultaneous Multi-Caret editing to Visual Studio

                        Simultaneously edit in more than one location in the editor.

                        If you've ever ran into a case where you wanted to quickly change variable names or multiple loop conditions - you should be able to set more than one caret on screen and simultaneously edit/type/move all of them together

                        An extension that does this can be found on the gallery:
                        http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/2beb9705-b568-45d1-8550-751e181e3aef

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                        • "View White Space" should show line endings too

                          As described here: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/621096/view-white-space-should-show-line-endings-too

                          Request:
                          * Visual Studio > Edit menu > Advanced > View White Space.
                          * Currently, this feature shows a symbol for space and tab characters.
                          * I would like to be able to view line endings too.
                          * I would like to be able to view what style of line ending was used.

                          And that's it for the request.

                          And now I offer some suggestions as to how this may look. Here's what I've seen other tools do:
                          * TortoiseMerge uses a single, unobtrusive symbol. It is "light" and does not distract from the main document…

                          21 votes
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                          • Procedure View like VB6

                            Pl bring back VB6 like procedure view feature where it is posible to work on one single procedure on screen. This helps developer to concentrate on a single procedure. This has been a very proper way to work with procedures.

                            19 votes
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                            • Intellisense filter to hide Extension methods

                              Including namespace such as System.Linq pollutes IEnumerable<T> with extension methods so much that it's very hard to find properties and methods belonging to a type.

                              19 votes
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                                2 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • Code snippet functions

                                Please add the support for the code snippet functions for following following scenarios

                                1. auto generation of GUID - Add a new function something like CreateGuid()

                                2. Finding out the method name, property name and field name - Add new functions something like MethodName(), PropertyName(), FieldName(), or ParameterName() with usage something similar to "ClassName()" function.

                                This will be greatly helpful when defining snippets for inserting the implementation of custom attributes.

                                Please refer to the present IDE support for Code Snippet Functions at the link below

                                http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms242312(v=vs.110).aspx

                                18 votes
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                                • implement eclipse and netbeans style namespace imports

                                  For netbeans or eclipse, if I reference a class that belongs to a package I have not imported, the package is auto imported when I invoke code completion or if there are many classes without imported packages, it’s just a one click operation to get those packages imported. Visual Studio needs the same implementation for namespaces

                                  18 votes
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                                  • Add Color Picker

                                    Many of us are designers.
                                    Adding a color library manager and color picker that could emit color values where the cursor is located in source would improve efficiency when working in HTML and even our code-behind.

                                    17 votes
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                                    • HotKeys for <%@ Import Namespace="..." %> directive (aspx) or @using (razor)

                                      There is an only action on pressing "Ctrl+." on class name in .aspx or .cshtml Views - adding namespace to the class name. It would be great, if there was an alternate action - setting Import directive (aspx) or using (razor) like in cs codefiles.

                                      17 votes
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                                      • warning on the multi-alphabetic words

                                        Show a warning message on the alphabet mixed words. For axample, if Cyrilic char 'С' typed inside the english word. and vice versa.

                                        Its very difficult to catch such bug when this word is used in the conditions or hash tables.
                                        It's should be in C#,Javascript, html, css - editors at least. thanks.

                                        16 votes
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                                        • mouse cursor changes direction

                                          The mouse cursor changes to an odd arrow when hovering over the expand/collapse signs in the code editor.

                                          It's odd because instead of pointing towards the top left, it points towards the top right.

                                          This isn't expected behavior and isn't how the cursor works anywhere else within VS2012. On ALL OTHER expansion items it is the normal cursor that points towards the top left. On this ONE SPOT it is backwards.

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