You really need to bring back the basic Setup and Deployment project name Visual Studio Installer. It was a clean, simple, and effective installer for home grown applications that were to be deployed internally. I downloaded and used InstallShield LE and it's too complicated and overblown to build simple effective install/uninstall capabilities. Why did you remove it to begin with? We have to support desktop applications for the foreseeable future.

Warning, this suggestion might be frowned upon.

In the recently announced Office 2013, one of the nicer features is the subtle smooth scrolling and typing animations.

I propose adding those features in Visual Studio 2012, as an option, of course, so people could turn it on and off.

Right now when you have a 64 bit Web project in Visual Studio 2012 it will always launch the iis express 32 bit version. Can we make Visual studio smarter depending on the platform on what iis express to load. Or at least allow for us to change that path inside the csproj file?

I think that the PowerPoint Storyboarding tools that are included in the Ultimate, Premium and Test Professional SKUs of Visual Studio 2012 should also be brought to the Express & Professional SKUs too.

It isn't only people who are working in teams who need to generate low-fidelity prototypes of their ideas, individuals do too and the Storyboarding tools included in those higher versions would be very useful to individuals too (and may encourage indviduals to get early feedback on ideas so they can be refined before coding begins).

Since async will be supported in SL5 and .NEt 4 through Async Targeting Pack, it would be excelent to enable the usage of async/await on SL5 WCF client proxies. The option "Generate Asynchronous Operations" is currently disabled in SL5 "Add Service Reference" dialog.

Please, make it happen before the VS12 RTM

That way I could use ReSharper, etc, with a nice lightweight version of VS.

I don't use TFS, nor MSTest, etc.

When I developed drivers I should use WDK, but there is no IDE, so I should use third party tools for it. It is inconvenient.

Perl support

Please support Visual Studio 2012 on Vista and not just .NET 4.5.

It would be nice if the service could use the office 365 authentication. We are running our company via microsoft services and ideally I'd like to manage a single set of identities.

While it's possible to create passports out of the office365 identities - it seems like a silly extra step. If we are managing our business using a suite of tools from Microsoft's wheelhouse - those tools should work together.

Could you please include sources of Ionic.zip.utils (under ms pl) to .Net platform and speed up his implementation?

Zipping+AES Encryption is very popular. And used almost everywhere. Comparing to wrapper of 7-zip compression takes longer in 2 times and with begger size, but API of ionic is very great.

As a developer I want to the Test Explorer to optionally run unit tests in parallel, regardless of the unit test framework so that my unit test runs finish faster on my multi-core machine.

As a developer I want to mark specific tests as single threaded with an attribute so that those tests that specifically don't work in a multi-threaded environment will still work when I run tests in parallel.

Please enhance Visual Studio Unit Tests for better support of data driven unit test, like NUnit TestCase attribute.

[TestCase(1, 1, 2)]
[TestCase(1, 2, 3)]
[TestCase(1, 4, 5)]
public void test_Add(int x, int y, int result)
{
Assert.AreEqual(MyUtils.Add(x, y), result);
}

Such an attribute is urgently needed for testing methods with several test cases.

The ability to split your model into multiple 'diagrams' in VS2012 is great, but...

As a solution designer,
I'd really like to be able to attach notes (or maybe even Use Cases, maybe TFS work Items?) directly on to the diagram,
so that I can better understand how well my model meets my requirements (and so I can highlight where I may need to make changes in future)

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Just noticed that Add Style rule dialogue box which showed up CSS-outline is missing in VS2012 or I am missing some changes made by MS?

Have first class support for less style sheets in the IDE.

To develope web projects not only with asp