Have a lightbox mode where icons can be reduced in their vibrancy, in a similar way to some photo apps, allowing the VS UI to fade into the background

When I scroll 'Pending changes' window down to include/exclude items to changeset 'Check In' button is scrolled too.

Idea: Fix 'Check In' button position in top of visible area.

If searching for a word that is present in the solution more than once , there is no option to come back to Previously found location.

Window.MovetoNextTabGroup and Window.MovetoPreviousTabGroup only work on a single monitor. If you have multiple monitors, it would be nice for the code file to travel across them; kind of like Window Key + left/right works on Windows 7

Add minimap scroll such as in http://www.sublimetext.com/
<img src="http://www.sublimetext.com/screenshots/pythonHeroLarge.png"; />

I used this editor 1 month and found that it feature is very useful!!!

When i design an app i use to have many DS,TA,TAM,BS,BN, Timers,etc... it will be nice to have something to arrange those items, something like virtual folders or groups (like groups in photoshop where you can drop layers in a named group)
Hope the get the idea of what i'm talking about.
I also attach a photo with my problem.

It would be awesome if we could start creating apps and games for Xbox One store before the hardware comes out. Perhaps we could make it work with current Kinect and Xbox 360 controllers on our windows 8 hardware??

When in fullscreen mode I want to have the menubar "roll up" like a curtain and only show on mouse over.

In some cases, we need to know the dependences of the references in project, or even view or set the info of a dependence. so I suggest you change the way of displaying references to reference tree in order to the dependences of references can be displayed. moreover, we can view and set properties of the selected dependence in property dialog.

Make possible to unload Web Site project from projects' context menu in Solution Explorer.

Currently you can do this for any type of projects, except Web Site. Also you still can unload Web Site from Website (Project) menu, that's a workaround but not handy.

Speech/Voice Recognition -- Please enable Visual Studio to work well with speech recognition programs. I was astounded to learn that Windows Speech Recognition explicitly disables itself when the current application is Visual Studio. You could at least enable command and control features within visual studio. I relalize that dictating code is a complex problem because it is so different from natural language text. But command and control of the IDE would be a minimal step forward. Work with the WSR team and get a solution done! (Working with Dragon would be nice to but working with something is more important).

I love having a "dark" editor; much less strain on the eyes. I'm thrilled that there's finally a one-click solution for that. However, it's very hard to read the "dark" menus...the "light" menus, toolbars, etc., are much easier to read when "light". I would prefer to see "light" menus/toolbars, and "dark" editor. Maybe allow the chrome theme to be selected separately from the editor theme?

In VS2010 there is this stoopid 'feature' that you cannot set the VC $(ExecutableFolders) et al to DEFAULT to using the native x64 compiler (i.e. it uses the cross-compiler by default when compiling from the IDE).
YES I know you must now do it project-by-project but we use Qt and our solution consists of > 140 projects, setting these every time after running qmake to generate a solution will be a major PITA.
You should at least make it POSSIBLE to change the defaults.

In VB6. We used CTRL+SHIFT+<1st Letter of Property> to go briskly to the desired property. But I couldnt find such option in VS. As now we work in C#. Please add this functionality to VS Editor. This will really speedup our development time.

Please optimize build and startup when debugging.
1. Stop building binaries when the code hasn't changed
2. Stop copying files like crazy when building.
3. Have common bin and lib folders in sln for external Copy Local refs and for output binaries.
4. Just start measuring startup time, decide on limit to what's acceptable and find the bottlenecks.

Add "exclude files" to the "Look in" options under Find and Replace. There are times when certain files are always going to be impertinent to search for, and it would be nice to know that search will not be bogged down by those files.

I can never remember shortcut keys! We need some kind of reminder / reinforcement to get devs to be menu free: tooltips, toast notification, command interceptor VS extension - whatever: something to help me boost my productivity!