Bring back a data visualizer for entities for debugging. The old visualizer for datasets was a good way to quickly inspect data to see where there were problems. Yes, there are some limitations that come into play because of the way EF works, but surely something could be done.

I am not a developer but I want to run the emulator to try out Windows Phone 8. I also want to try out apps available for Windows Phone 8. Sadly I cannot because the Windows Phone emulator can't connect to a Microsoft Account. Not only does that mean no third-party apps, it also means you can't try out People Hub either, a really cool feature of Windows Phone 8.

Please allow the Windows Phone emulator to connect a Microsoft Account.

Add Silverlight Developer Runtime to VS 2011 so we can debug Silverlight and not have uninstall the normal silverlight runtime. I work in a restricted network and IT maintains out desktop configurations very strictly. I cannot develop Silverlight apps because I cannot uninstall Silverlight.exe and install the development runtime. I would similare to the built in web server Casini.

I've reported the issue here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7816556/visual-studio-extend-ide-the-exception-assistant.

I truly desire exstensibility with the Exception Assistant. If you could please expose the Exception message, Error code, plugin GUI & etc, we could pull online resources in from SO, code project & MSDN & give online help links based on the error you're getting. Please make this ability as a interface so the community can implement the search features and incorporate them into the Exception Assistant. TIA. ps Would we all like the Jon Skeet add-in?

when reloading a project display only one popup for "The following breakpoint cannot be set", instead of displaying the popup each time the error occurs. Another option would be to put the errors in the Error List window and popout the Error List so the user can see the error messages.

I want a "step over timer" that display the time it took to step over a line of code, function call etc. Something very precise based on the number of cycles, or a high performance counter. Time could be shown in the status bar and range from microseconds to hours.

Enhance Debugging Options to allow Debugging the page and Database SQL proc in one place.

At this moment, we use break point, watch to inspect variable values
Sometimes we want to use printed out message with Debug.Writeline, we have to code it manually

for example, we can insert debug writeline to monitor how many times our event is fired

or debug writeline watched variable, so we can track/debug its changed value without break/pause while apps running

Quit stealing focus when a breakpoint is hit. I am not always just sitting and waiting. I might be in outlook or some other program typing away and presto! I am now typing into some source file. File gets checked out of TFS, code is "modifed" and I have to wait wait wait until the edit&continue debugging finishes its preliminary work. Once I have control, I have to undo the edit and undo the TFS checkout.

Just blink the VS icon in my task bar like other apps that want attention when a breakpoint trips. Please.

Implement a new "skip over" breakpoint type that would automatically skip to some user-defined line of code when hit and keep running from there without user intervention. This would speed up debugging by not having to constantly move execution point manually, or having to recompile the code to remove the offending section.

The VisualStudio Window is completely blocked when a visualizer is open (not unexpected since it is opened by Window.ShowDialog()). Therefore you can't look at any other data or even start other visualizers. If you try to do Window.Show(), the Visualizer opens, but closes immediately.

When debugging a website project (with "Build Web Site" in "Before running startup page"), PLEASE DON'T REBUILD the ENTIRE WEBSITE when NOTHING HAS CHANGED! Also, just build the pages that changed (of course, if something in app_code changed, then the whole site might need to be rebuilt). PLEASE! This is WASTING tons of EXPENSIVE developer time as they wait for the site to once again build when all they did was click "stop debugging" followed immediately by "start debuggin". VS2010 did not have this annoying problem.

If you change the constants to variables in the compiler when edit & continue is enabled, users will be able to edit them & continue.

There currently is no option to disable the message that is shown when a data breakpoint is hit: "The following breakpoint was hit."
That makes it basically impossible to use data breakpoints in an addin that needs to run debugging tasks automatically.

My addin needs to be informed about the context change (and that the breakpoint was hit) without the user needing to hit a button. Please implement an option that will make the debugger call the usual events without showing the message box.

When I get exception messages using the debugger, I would like to get the option for Visual Studio to give me the English counterpart instead of the one in my language (Dutch). Especially because I'm already using an English Visual C# program. Exception messages in less spoken languages are useless if you want to do research on the Internet about it.

When I switch branches on my code, functions move slightly and breakpoints end in the wrong lines. It seems VS remembers only the line number of each breakpoint. If VS remembered some context around breakpoints, it could reconstruct the new location better.