Add support for Git Staging area

All of the other applications in windows 8 change the title and border colors when the theme changes (I have mine change randomly). Visual Studio does not respect this.

Expand intellisense to display associated statement when hovering over the closing bracket for that statement. This would be especially useful for longer code blocks where the top isn't visible at the same time as the bottom.

So for instance you hover over the closing bracket ("}") for an if statement and it pops up the statement like "if (x != y)" the bracket is associated with.

The differences in blue between the Ready status color and the Building status color on the status bar are so subtle that you don't notice the change. As I am developing, when I compile, it is difficult simply by looking at the color to determine if it is the "build blue" status color or the "ready blue" status color.

Even better, make the colors user-configurable :)

Provide the ability to use the keyword var as a return type for .Net methods so that locally strongly typed variable declarations can simply be returned as values from a method using the var keyword directly rather than having to be cast to be strongly typed or otherwise modified to return a Generic Type.

Provide an option to disable Intellisense member list default selection. The lack of this option makes Intellisense almost unusable. Typing "i = n;" in C++ will give you "i = namespace;", not exactly what you want by default.

Allow to check what I want to collapse, e.g. only comments, or everything except them, etc.

Microsoft, you make a serious error, making VS2012 in a grayscale style. Users must have a choise - use new interface or old, with colored icons.

When setting up keyboard shortcuts to external tools the external tools are listed as "Tools.ExternalCommand1", "Tools.ExternalCommand2", etc. This makes it very difficult to determine which one you want to add your shortcut to. They should also display the name of the actual command as well. It's also very difficult to find the right items in the list since it only displays a few at a time and the settings window cannot be expanded to give you more room to look at these.

Concerning VS2012 & WPF + XAML

It should be perfect if the XAML window would not be only separated in 2 parts (Design & XAML) but would be really divided in 2 windows...

I'm developping with multiple screens and I really dream to have :
->One screen For C# Editor
->One screen For WPF Designer
->One screen For XAML Editor.

For the last X versions of VS, to copy a watch value, I have to select Copy, and then paste the value (which is a combination of name, value, and type) into Notepad, and then from there, I copy the value I want to use elsewhere. The watch tooltip, on the otherhand, makes this process much more streamlined by providing "Copy Expression". Putting this into the Watch window proper will help quite a bit (especially since the tooltip tends to disappear if you move the mouse pointer too far as well as the fact that it is not always available)

I liked the ability with a couple of the view enhancer extensions to be able to easily be able to distinguish class and method names by giving them a color, and making them bolded. They really stand out that way, and it can often help my tired old eyes find things after hours of coding. ;)

I just upgraded to VS2012 from VS2008. In VS2008, I was able to float the Debug toolbar over the current document window and shape the toolbar in a square or rectangle. I would position the toolbar just to the right of the code I was debugging. It was very convenient to have the toolbar so close to my code.

I can't do this in VS2012. I would like the ability to do this added back into the VS IDE.

I have added a screen shot of VS2008 to show you what I mean.

Thanks.

- Eric

Would be nice if one could change code while one is debugging and then change the break points to depending on altered code and carry on running through the debugger. I think it would make finding and solution problems a lot quicker

The new Reference Manager in VS 11 is great, but I have to resize it and the columns in the assemblies list every time I use it. The reason for that is that we use relatively long assembly names (CompanyName.ProductName.Area.Subarea). This is annoying. Please add code to store the size of the dialog and the size of each column when closing and restore this sizes when opening.