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  1. 4 votes
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    • Add tooltip with the region name when hovering over #endregion

      When moving around the code in the editor, it would be very nice if you could see the name of a region in a tooltip when hovering over the #endregion directive.

      Then it would also make sense to make it possible to hide a region at the #endregion directive.

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      • Printing of Sequence and Class Diagramms

        Hello,

        I love UML and I love the features to generate Sequence Diagramms and Class Diagramms in Visual Studio 2010. But I have no idea why it is so hard to print a diagramm.

        I would like to be able to print any kind of diagramm. It would be great if you could recognize that most of us developers only own an A4 printer. So we need a comfortable way to print hugh diagramms over several A4 page. For example it's quite comfortable to print a large sheet in Excel.

        Kind regards

        Sebastian

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        • Add an option to be able to right click on a type within the code window to 'View in Object Browser'

          Within the IDE when viewing code, it would be great if we could have an option to right click on the Type/Member and have an option to View in Object Browser.

          Currently, this is a manual step, which slowed down by having to search for the type, and then select one from a potentially large list of results.

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          • Add 'Find all implementations'

            I've no idea how feasible this is, but I often find myself trawling through long lists of Found references, trying to pick out the actual implementation(s) of the method/property I'm investigating.

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            • Allow windows to be tabbed even when undocked

              The undocking feature is of limited use for multi-monitor editing since I cannot combine the undocked windows/files into one. I'd like to open all cpp files on one screen and all h files on another. Right now, I have to manually undock and move any new file I open and I have to move the window to see the other ones opened.

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              • Fix HTML5 validation for data attributes

                Valid HTML5 data attributes:
                1. data-isnewuser="data-isnewuser"
                2. data-isnewuser

                Visual Studio allows 1 but warns about 2: "Warning Validation (HTML5): This attribute name must be followed by an equal (=) sign and a value. If the value is in quotation marks, the quotation marks must match."

                That warning is wrong. And 2 is preferable as it simplifies the markup.

                See:
                http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#boolean-attribute
                http://stackoverflow.com/a/9729132/1711500
                http://stackoverflow.com/a/4140263/1711500

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                • wrap selected line with try catch or using

                  lets say you have a sub called SomeSub that you want to add a try catch (or a using statement) around. what would be really sweet is if you could go to where you call SomeSub, place your cursor before the first S, type in try then press enter and wind up with:
                  try
                  SomeSub
                  catch ex as exception

                  end try

                  instead of winding up with:
                  try

                  catch ex as exception

                  end try
                  SomeSub

                  what would be extra super sweet is if you could actually define a template for the try catch statement so you could have user defined code…

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                  • turn off read-only manifest on save VS2012

                    When i try to save a read-only file, id like it to fail and notice me with a brief sound, just like the previous VS2010 behavior.

                    I tried selecting/unselecting "Allow editing of read-only files;warn when attempt to save", both options end up showing a popup on save and i always click Cancel.

                    Thanks

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                    • rename and completion in comments (at least in doc comments)

                      As someone who believes in comments and referencing other code in them, I want completion to work while typing comments and rename to at least offer textual matches for my approval when renaming, which are almost always correct due to good naming.

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                      • Allow custom outlining in .cs files to be saved

                        For .cs files in Visual Web Developer Express and Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop, pieces of code that I explicitly outline with Edit.HideSelection have their outlining removed (which is the problem) when I close and re-open those .cs files. This is regardless of whether or not I have Automatic Outlining turned on, nor whether or not my .cs files enter Outlining Mode when they open. This problem doesn't happen for .cpp files.
                        Thank you,
                        Daniel

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                        • Obfuscate file names in build log in Diagnostic mode

                          At times when I report a bug and it is not reproducable, MS asks me to submit either a sample application or build log. There are times when I cannot submit this build log as it contains file, project, resource, reference, etc names. If there was a build mode which obfuscates the these above names then I don't have to worry when submitting my build log to MS

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                          • Change the unmatched line pattern in Visual Studio 2012 Code Review

                            My team has recently converted to Visual Studio 2012 and is using the Code Review work items. When reviewing a new file, or one with substantial changes, the slashes or hashing shown for the unmatched lines causes my eyes to cross and lose focus making the review physically painful.

                            Is there any way to change the slashes or hashing in the Code Review tool to be something different such as a 50% grey, or at least lower the contrast of the lines so I can use the tool?

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                            • Inline-T4 editor in code editor

                              My first idea was to have the IDE code editor display an (inline-)textbox with a frame and alternative background/foreground color when typing a (multi-line) @"Static string" in code. This would make code with lots of static texts easier to read and maintain. But then I thought, wouldn't it be nice to have an inline-T4 editor instead? This would eliminate the use of if-statements and string concatinations when a static string is built conditionally. Template code could be pre-processed before compiling the code. I've seen a lot of code where SQL statements are built conditionally based on some search parameters. Its…

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                              • Create TODO Windows where all todo comments will be enlisted. Also put autogenerated structure for TODO commenting.

                                Create TODO Windows where all todo comments will be enlisted. Also put autogenerated structure for TODO commenting similar to what we get above method and class defination.
                                Such kind of windows will help a lot to enlist all pending task on one place.

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                                  • Show text search results in a list, instead of jumping forth and back between hits! See Code::Blocks for how this is best implemented.

                                    Show text search results in a list, instead of jumping forth and back between hits!

                                    It is much more user-friendly to navigate a list of hits, than "jumping into the unknown" without good overview.

                                    See the free IDE Code::Blocks for how this is best implemented.

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                                    • Refactor long if, else and case statements to strategy pattern

                                      It would be nice if the refactor context menu was able to give you an option to refactor a long chain of "if logic" into a strategy pattern:

                                      eg: say these are all descended from a toy class

                                      if(myObj == ball)
                                      {

                                      }
                                      else if (myObj == train)
                                      {
                                      }
                                      else if(myObj == car)
                                      {

                                      }

                                      If you right clicked you'd get an option to refactor to:

                                      ToyStrategies[typeof(myObj)].DoStuff();

                                      It would be very helpful when trying to simplify code rather than having to manually cut and paste edit names etc for each of a very long potential list of possibilities. Doing…

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                                      • Advanced find interface

                                        The VS Find tool is really very powerful - it's the tool that use for searching the contents of large numbers of text files, even non-project files. But currently it's only any good if you know exactly what string you're looking for; there's no way to find "this" AND "that" occurring in, say, the same line.

                                        The ability to do that, or even to find them NEAR (for a specified definition of NEAR) would be great. I imagine that this could end up with just an option to parse regex, but having something that is a little easier to use…

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                                        • Add New Edit->Advanced Editor Tool: Flip Statement

                                          In Visual Studio (2010), under the Edit->Advanced menu there can be found some nifty hotkeyable text editing tools. One tool I would love to see in there is the ability to flip statement sides in the current selection.

                                          Example Operation #1:
                                          Turn this: someObj.ProfileID = anotherObj.ID;
                                          Into this: anotherObj.ID = someObj.ProfileID;

                                          Example Operation #2:
                                          Turn this: someObj.Counter += anotherObj.Value;
                                          Into this: anotherObj.Counter += someObj.Value;

                                          I can't name how many times, using MVC or otherwise, where I've had similar objects (models) with lots of properties, and then needed to flip statement sides (ie: Read operation, then a new Create/Update operation). Would…

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