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  1. inherited

    In intelisense sort members in such way that inherited members are displayed after members from derived class.
    In the help give option to show/hide inherited members. I think that for most of the time users want to see what is intruduced in the derived class rather than see tons of inherited members mixed with new ones.
    This concept is present in Flex help and is great.

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    • Allow property declarations within interfaces to appear on one line

      I'd prefer property declarations within an Interface to remain one one-line while property implementations in the class appear on multiples, making interfaces easier to read.

      e.g.:

      public interface IMyType
      {
      string MyName { get; set; }
      string MyAge { get; }
      }

      public class MyType: IMyType
      {
      public string MyName
      {
      get;
      set;
      }

      public string MyAge
      {
      get;
      }
      }

      Both formatting styles IMO work well in their own right, as the interface is easier to read while retaining the auto-new line formatting of property implementations.

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        3 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • to fix the intellisense "go to definition" functionality asap.

        to fix the intellisense "go to definition" functionality asap. This one is really messed up with to 2010 version of DevStudio.

        Frequently it happens, that using this fct. it lasts several minutes prior sth. is happening. Sometimes the IDE is telling me what it is doing - that's great, especially when I want to continue my work oO...

        => All this is really annoying and hampering my work significantly.

        The previous versions 2008 (and before) are much faster - and I think more reliable at all.

        Thank you for your patience

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        • allow me to drag and drop a file from solution explore to a tab group when there are tab groups open in the IDE.

          With large monitors it is often useful to work with files in tab groups. I would love to be able to control what tab group I open a file in by dragging and dropping from solution explorer (or any similar view )

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          • Add Insert vs Navigation Mode switching a-la vim

            I am a giant fan of vim. It has become incredibly distracting to move to the arrow keys or my mouse. I want first class/best in class navigation support at the keyboard.

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            • Hide IntelliSense completely on Ctrl and make the delay configurable

              Please make it possible to:

              - disable Ctrl hiding IntelliSense, or
              - make the Ctrl delay configurable, with a minimum of zero, and make it possibile for it to be fully transparent.

              The way it's done currently makes it extra hard to use, because the delay is too long and the text is too unreadable (so I just use Esc).

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              • Automatically generate Xml Documentation Comment when implementing an interface, abstract member, or override.

                When implementing an interface implicitly or explicitly, implementing an abstract method or property, or overriding a virtual method or property, automatically generate the Xml Documentation Comment from the original, so it does not have to be re-typed in its entirety.

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                • background compile rdlc reports

                  When I'm building a report, I can add expressions to my report which has various functions in them. If I copy and paste a common expression in the report, I don't always give the code window the chance to show me an error before I've clicked OK and closed.

                  Could the IDE background compile my report so I can see any problems in the error list before I start running my code? It can be frustrating to find the error in one of the textboxes/tablixes I have put into my report when there are quite a few.

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                  • Refactoring of class should update corresponding metadata class

                    When refactoring a class like a class in my model (ex changing the name of a property) I wan't the option to make the change affect any associated metadata-class.

                    Scenario: When refactoring EF model in WCF RIA / MVC project the corresponding metadata-class should be updated

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                    • Render HTML5 and CSS3-specific features in the VS11 Html Designer

                      Currently, features such as border-radius or linear-gradient (ms-filter in IE) are not rendered in the VS11 Html Designer, although the Code Editor supports them as validation and IntelliSense. This totally thwarts the WYSIWYG preview of what your page would look like in the browser. Do you plan adding HTML5/CSS3 support to the VS11 Html Designer or do you plan removing the designer at all? Is it an obsolete feature, or just its rendering engine is obsolete?

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                      • Include "var" in Find All References

                        In the C# editor, the results for Find All References do not include references made using the var keyword. Part of the beauty of a strongly typed language is that there is no semantic difference between var and the type name. However, the IDE is treating the two differently.

                        The omission can lure a programmer into thinking that a type is less widely used than it really is, which can be a false sense of security when considering an API change.

                        I propose you include code using "var" in Find All References results.

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                        • Intellisense for Jquery and debug options

                          It would be good to see Intellisense for Jquery and debug options

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                          • Option to stop indenting namespaces in C++ code

                            Option to stop indenting namespaces in C++ code

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                            • Spaces vs Tabs: auto-detect

                              Some projects use spaces, some use tabs for indentation. Working on multiple projects with conflicting policies and having to manually flip the switch each time is annoying. Could you auto-detect what policy a given file uses?

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                              • CSS preprocessor

                                I need something as the LESS in Ruby On Rails

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                                • Colored Tabs

                                  Enable the user to color Code-Editor Tabs manually and/or per RegExes. (i.e. All .vb-Tabs green, .js red,... and so on)

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                                  • Form localization

                                    make more convenient form localization. need a simple project-wide way to switch Language for forms.

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                                    • Add comment column to .NET settings page.

                                      It is really required feature is to add column with comments for Settings Page in C# project settings.

                                      It is also required to add this comments to code to see this comment from IntellySense in Studio.

                                      It is hard to keep this comments somewhere outside.

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                                        • Allow Pasting pre-Collapsed Code Without Automatically Expanding it on Paste

                                          It is often very helpful to work with code that has been collapsed by method or markup node, or region. Sometime you need to cut/copy then paste such code. If you do that against pre-collapsed code, the editor has always had the behavior that it expands the collapsed code upon the action of pasting it. I personally have never found this to be helpful behavior, perhaps others have. I'd like to suggest this behavior either be changed or provide an option allowing it to be changed such that after the paste, collapsed code remains collapsed.

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