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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.
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Thanks – Deon Herbert
Visual Studio Team
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make all msdn documentation available off-line
Please bring us back to the good old days where all docs available off-line were available to download... if not free for all at least for msdn subscribers.
Thank you420 votes -
API Documentation
I would be great to have a more detailed documentation of TFS API on MSDN site
72 votes -
Make all Entity Framework documentation available off-line
Only part of Entity Framework is available off-line. There are parts that are missing from the books available to download, for example, the System.Data.Entity documentation. It would be great for people like me who do part of their work off-line to have that docs off-line.
51 votes -
Make all web development documentation available off-line
There is no web development available off-line, for people working part time desconnected would be great to have that available, also for those with low bandwidth or just to save organization bandwidth.
29 votes -
Make MSDN work the jQuery style
I really appreciate jQuery's documentation style. It provides very clear description plus enough samples and/or demos. I suggest that MSDN should copy that style.
17 votes -
Allow external libraries to integrate their documentation in Visual Studio (F1)
For as long as I can remember, the Visual Studio IDE allows us to go to the documentation of a class, method or property that's at the cursor's position, after pressing F1.
This however only works for types and members that are part of the BCL or other Microsoft related stuff. This does not work for open source libraries or commercial libraries from ISVs.
For the usability of those external libraries, I believe it to be important if they can integrate in an easy way with the Visual Studio IDE F1 Help experience, but as far as I can see,…
14 votes -
Have documentation of the TFS Build Framework
When do you provide us a documentation of the Framework of TFS Build ?
Actually, it is very difficult or impossible to create custom activities for TFS Build 2010. It is very difficult to understand how works your framework.
In MSDN, we have list of class and methods, but no documentation. Inadmissible !10 votes -
Allow Help Viewer 2.0 to be pinnable to the taskbar
In VS 2012, the help viewer (v2.0) cannot be pinned to the Windows taskbar.
This is a regression from help viewer 1.0 in VS2010.
I use it every day and have gotten used to launching help viewer from the taskbar. Please enable this functionality.
I opened a Connect issue for this problem but it was closed as "By Design" -- what fool made this the design?
6 votes -
Return Help viewer into IDE
Please, return back help viewer as IDE document as it was in earlier versions prior VS10.
VS10 has add-ins for this but does not work as before.4 votes -
Provide HelpViewer 2 as a standalone download
Allow HelpViewer 2 to be installed on its own so people can download help content onto devices they work from where the don't need Visual Studio to be present.
4 votes -
create documentation features throughout the appli
add extensive documentation features for architecture (document exports of all UML, DGML, requirements, etc ...) with support for .docx, .Pdf et al.
this is something that is really missing and could leverage the architecture features more instead of needing extra (non-straightforward) tools like Sparx Enterprise Architect.3 votes -
XML Documentation Web
Restore option to specify XML documentation on Web Application projects.
3 votes -
support the Visual Micro ,
support the Visual Micro ,so I can editor the arduino program in VS2012.cause I can do it in VS2010
3 votes -
Help Viewer 2.0 is missing a category filter
Help Viewer 2.0 is missing a category filter (e.g. C#, C++, Windows SDK, etc.). Search and index results are cluttered by useless results the user is not looking for.
3 votes -
Help Viewer 2.0: make ctrl-tab behave the same as in VS2012
I tend to use the multi-tab feature of Help Viewer 2.0 a lot and I think it's highly annoying that using control-tab doesn't immediately switch between windows as in VS2012.
When I'm reading help screens I want to get to the information I need as quickly as possible instead of having to press multiple keys in order to switch back and forth (control-tab to open the menu, control-tab /again/ to highlight another tab and then having to press enter to select it).
3 votes -
Need documentation on Naming Restrictions on Build Definitions in TFS 2010.
I'm not findinf any documentation\msdn page for Naming Restrictions on Build Definitions in TFS 2010.
MSDN do have it for TeamBuild which doesnt include anytign about naming restrictions on build definitions.
Kindly do the needful if you think this will be useful.3 votes -
Store Help Viewer 2.0 favorites as separate files
Help Viewer 2.0 for Visual Studio 2012 stores favorites in an undocumented format. As a consequence, developers who work with several devices are forced to manually recreate each and every favorite on each and every device. I suggest storing favorites as separate files, which then could be automatically synchronized across devices.
(As a workaround available today, one could give up local help entirely and store all favorites as online bookmarks in the browser and sync from there. However, viewing help in the browser is much less productive than vieweing help in a specialized local viewer).
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Revise your "Connect Visual Studio to TFS" page so that it is consistent with the current page it describes.
Revise your "Connect Visual Studio to TFS" page at http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/learn/code/connect-vs/ so that it is consistent with the current "https://[your account].visualstudio.com" page it describes. Currently the help page shows a "Create a team project" but the account home page has been modified so that the home page now has a button instead of the link (correct?).
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Wrong error message on posting here
FYI. When posting my last message here: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums
I had a typo in the e-mail address. This prompted an validation error message (red box) with the text that my *password* was wrong. I guess I was not signed in, but there was no place for a password on the page and it should read "You need to log-in before posting".1 vote -
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