Visual Studio

Welcome to the Visual Studio UserVoice site. Let us know what you would like to see in future versions of the Visual Studio suite of products. This site is for suggestions and ideas. If you need to file a bug, visit the Visual Studio Connect site: http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio.

ASP.NET Runtime/Web Tooling suggestions have moved! All your ideas, including your votes, have been transferred and are searchable in the ASP.Net Uservoice forum. Please submit any new ASP.NET Runtime/Web Tooling suggestions, or vote on existing suggestions by going to http://aspnet.uservoice.com.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Thanks – Deon Herbert
Visual Studio Team

I suggest you ...

You've used all your votes and won't be able to post a new idea, but you can still search and comment on existing ideas.

There are two ways to get more votes:

  • When an admin closes an idea you've voted on, you'll get your votes back from that idea.
  • You can remove your votes from an open idea you support.
  • To see ideas you have already voted on, select the "My feedback" filter and select "My open ideas".
(thinking…)

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

If a similar idea already exists, you can vote and comment on it.

If it doesn't exist, you can post your idea so others can vote on it.

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

  • Hot ideas
  • Top ideas
  • New ideas
  1. x64 edit and continue

    Imporve x64 debugger so Edit and Contunue works when running on Windows x64 o/s

    2,584 votes
    Vote
    Sign in
    Check!
    (thinking…)
    Reset
    or sign in with
    • facebook
    • google
      Password icon
      I agree to the terms of service
      Signed in as (Sign out)
      You have left! (?) (thinking…)
      under review  ·  92 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Function return value in debugger

      I want to able to see function return value in managed debugger just like unmanaged debuger (it has this feature from Visual Studio 6.0!).

      1,094 votes
      Vote
      Sign in
      Check!
      (thinking…)
      Reset
      or sign in with
      • facebook
      • google
        Password icon
        I agree to the terms of service
        Signed in as (Sign out)
        You have left! (?) (thinking…)
        under review  ·  10 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Bring back the MPI Cluster Debugger to VS 2012

        In Visual Studio 2010 there is an MPI Cluster Debugger that allows us to debug MPI applications.
        It seems that this feature has gone, so please bring it back to make it easier to develop MPI applications on Windows.

        279 votes
        Vote
        Sign in
        Check!
        (thinking…)
        Reset
        or sign in with
        • facebook
        • google
          Password icon
          I agree to the terms of service
          Signed in as (Sign out)
          You have left! (?) (thinking…)
          13 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • XAML Debugger

          I would really like xaml debugger! I think that this caution is necessary! very difficult to find errors in the xaml.

          230 votes
          Vote
          Sign in
          Check!
          (thinking…)
          Reset
          or sign in with
          • facebook
          • google
            Password icon
            I agree to the terms of service
            Signed in as (Sign out)
            You have left! (?) (thinking…)
            6 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • allow breakpoints to be set on no-body properties.

            Often times I am motivated to create properties that have no custom accessor or specifier bodies. For example:

            class Person
            {
            private int _age { get; set; }
            }

            The advantage of a property over field in this case is that if I ever want to debug how and when _age is being mutated or accessed I can fill in the bodies of get and set with an obligatory backing field:

            class Person
            {
            private int _ageBacking;

            private int _age { get { return _ageBacking; } set { _ageBacking = value; }
            }

            and set breakpoints in the get and…

            87 votes
            Vote
            Sign in
            Check!
            (thinking…)
            Reset
            or sign in with
            • facebook
            • google
              Password icon
              I agree to the terms of service
              Signed in as (Sign out)
              You have left! (?) (thinking…)
              3 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • 86 votes
              Vote
              Sign in
              Check!
              (thinking…)
              Reset
              or sign in with
              • facebook
              • google
                Password icon
                I agree to the terms of service
                Signed in as (Sign out)
                You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                0 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • Enable Edit and Continue for Silverlight

                Enable "Edit and Continue" when debugging silverlight projects.

                It is very annoying and fells like the 20th century that you first have to stop debugging before you make any change to the code (or comments) and then have to restart the whole application.

                63 votes
                Vote
                Sign in
                Check!
                (thinking…)
                Reset
                or sign in with
                • facebook
                • google
                  Password icon
                  I agree to the terms of service
                  Signed in as (Sign out)
                  You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                  0 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Provide message based debugging

                  The debugger in VS is farily decent. However it appears to be lacking one essential feature for debugging Windows applications that are event based. That would be the ability to easily debug the source of messages being posted to a window.

                  I typically have to resort to Spyxx.exe to view events while I am also debugging in Visual Studio. That is fraught with issues as Spyxx has problems when the debugger is running. Spy can detect an issue with "hooks" that can cause the system to lock up so spy tells me it is refusing to log messages. Sometimes I…

                  63 votes
                  Vote
                  Sign in
                  Check!
                  (thinking…)
                  Reset
                  or sign in with
                  • facebook
                  • google
                    Password icon
                    I agree to the terms of service
                    Signed in as (Sign out)
                    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                    4 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Add comments to code while debugging

                    When I'm debugging I look with different eyes at my code. It makes me wonder what things do and it would be a great time to add some comments to the code. Unluckily (while the executing code is not changed) I can not add comments and always have to remember where I wanted to add some extra comments,

                    60 votes
                    Vote
                    Sign in
                    Check!
                    (thinking…)
                    Reset
                    or sign in with
                    • facebook
                    • google
                      Password icon
                      I agree to the terms of service
                      Signed in as (Sign out)
                      You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                      2 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • LINQ Debugging

                      Improve debugging support for Ix and Rx queries in the IDE. Specifically, a condensed call stack view that was more of a "query stack" would be great. It would also be great if we could hook into the "query stack" features from our own LINQ-based APIs.

                      52 votes
                      Vote
                      Sign in
                      Check!
                      (thinking…)
                      Reset
                      or sign in with
                      • facebook
                      • google
                        Password icon
                        I agree to the terms of service
                        Signed in as (Sign out)
                        You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                        0 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Attach child process to debugger automatically

                        Visual Studio debugger should support automatically debugging created child processes

                        46 votes
                        Vote
                        Sign in
                        Check!
                        (thinking…)
                        Reset
                        or sign in with
                        • facebook
                        • google
                          Password icon
                          I agree to the terms of service
                          Signed in as (Sign out)
                          You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                          1 comment  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Under the Debug Menu, Add an Attach to IIS item

                          Under the Debug Menu, add an Attach to IIS item. The new feature should detect the correct IIS process for the installed OS. This relieves the user from searching through the Attach to Process list to find aspnet_wp or w3wp.

                          35 votes
                          Vote
                          Sign in
                          Check!
                          (thinking…)
                          Reset
                          or sign in with
                          • facebook
                          • google
                            Password icon
                            I agree to the terms of service
                            Signed in as (Sign out)
                            You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                            1 comment  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • IL debugging

                            If no sources are available, instead of showing x86 assembly, show .NET IL and allow to step through the IL instructions.

                            30 votes
                            Vote
                            Sign in
                            Check!
                            (thinking…)
                            Reset
                            or sign in with
                            • facebook
                            • google
                              Password icon
                              I agree to the terms of service
                              Signed in as (Sign out)
                              You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                              2 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • Improve breakpoint condition editor

                              Add IntelliSence support or at least condition history picker

                              28 votes
                              Vote
                              Sign in
                              Check!
                              (thinking…)
                              Reset
                              or sign in with
                              • facebook
                              • google
                                Password icon
                                I agree to the terms of service
                                Signed in as (Sign out)
                                You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                0 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • Implement a way to save "Break when Exception is:" configurations

                                The "exceptions" Dialog isn't very usefull.
                                Somtimes i want to break on IOException somtimes on ArgumentException or a set of n other Exceptions. Everytime I have to open the Dialog serch for the Exceptions check them and close the dialog. Everytiem the same work.

                                It would be nice to have a "Save configuration as" Button in the Dialog to save the curretn configuration under a specific name. Later you can select a configuration via a submenu entry in the Debug-->Exceptions menu.

                                27 votes
                                Vote
                                Sign in
                                Check!
                                (thinking…)
                                Reset
                                or sign in with
                                • facebook
                                • google
                                  Password icon
                                  I agree to the terms of service
                                  Signed in as (Sign out)
                                  You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                  1 comment  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • Allow Modules window to be filtered or grouped

                                  Currently Debug->Modules window doesn't allow neither to be filtered (e.g. by name and wildcard) or grouped (e.g. by process),
                                  nor columns to be truly hidden (columns' width is decreased to 0 instead).

                                  26 votes
                                  Vote
                                  Sign in
                                  Check!
                                  (thinking…)
                                  Reset
                                  or sign in with
                                  • facebook
                                  • google
                                    Password icon
                                    I agree to the terms of service
                                    Signed in as (Sign out)
                                    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                    0 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • Support for reverse debugging in C++

                                    Under Linux reverse debugging of C++ code is possible for a while. Both by a commercial solution (UndoDB (http://undo-software.com/)) and meanwhile by GDB, too (http://www.gnu.org/s/gdb/news/reversible.html).

                                    It's time to add this capability to the Visual Studio debugger, too.

                                    25 votes
                                    Vote
                                    Sign in
                                    Check!
                                    (thinking…)
                                    Reset
                                    or sign in with
                                    • facebook
                                    • google
                                      Password icon
                                      I agree to the terms of service
                                      Signed in as (Sign out)
                                      You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                      2 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • Shortcut for "Starting a new instance" of the Startup project

                                      When you're using TFS and want to run you application, hitting 'F5' could be a pain in the ***.
                                      You'll have to right-click on you project>Debug>Start new instance.

                                      A shortcut for that would come in handy for the startup project in your solution.

                                      Shortcuts are the key to smooth working in my opinion.

                                      24 votes
                                      Vote
                                      Sign in
                                      Check!
                                      (thinking…)
                                      Reset
                                      or sign in with
                                      • facebook
                                      • google
                                        Password icon
                                        I agree to the terms of service
                                        Signed in as (Sign out)
                                        You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                        3 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                      • Option to debug/test using the build configuration's config transform.

                                        Config transforms change behavior that should be easily testable.
                                        Without this option either the web.config must be edited or the app must be published.
                                        Please add an easy way to use a config transform during debug and test without changing the web.config itself. If the config file is changed, then it would be easy to accidentally commit those changes to source control.

                                        20 votes
                                        Vote
                                        Sign in
                                        Check!
                                        (thinking…)
                                        Reset
                                        or sign in with
                                        • facebook
                                        • google
                                          Password icon
                                          I agree to the terms of service
                                          Signed in as (Sign out)
                                          You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                          3 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • Add support to watch getters (const functions) in C++

                                          Add support to watch expressions with getters (const functions) in C++

                                          Examples:
                                          1.
                                          float GetWidth() const;
                                          float GetHeight() const;

                                          area = obj.GetWidth() * obj.GetHeight();

                                          2.
                                          const float operator[](unsigned int index) const;

                                          val = obj1[i] + obj2[i+1];

                                          20 votes
                                          Vote
                                          Sign in
                                          Check!
                                          (thinking…)
                                          Reset
                                          or sign in with
                                          • facebook
                                          • google
                                            Password icon
                                            I agree to the terms of service
                                            Signed in as (Sign out)
                                            You have left! (?) (thinking…)
                                            1 comment  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                          ← Previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
                                          • Don't see your idea?

                                          Feedback and Knowledge Base