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  1. Add Id's to the HTML element tags generated in the LightSwitch HTML Client

    if you look at the generated DOM in a typical LS HTML page, none of
    the tags have any ID attributes, even though the elements are named in the LS Designer. This makes it not convenient to access elements of our choosing in our JS code, e.g. I want to alter the text of an element from the listener of another element.

    Please consider adding ID (or Name) attributes for all elements that exist in the Designer.

    12 votes
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      0 comments  ·  LightSwitch  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Add the ability to edit on the fly while running a test

      During a test Run, if an error, typo, etc. is noticed, or if a step should be inserted, I have to stop the Run, edit the test, and then run it again. Why I cannot edit the test step or the test itself on the fly while I am running the test creates a lot of overhead and if I abandon the Run, the Run displays as Failed.

      4 votes
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      • Automate TFService deploy to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

        The ability to automatically deploy a website on Azure Web Site TFService is really interesting, but unfortunately there is a solution to update a site / database on Amazon Web Services. Preocisava a solution to automate the deploy on AWS.

        2 votes
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          0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Allow Drag & Drop Prioritization of Work Items Within Sprint Backlog Item

          Allow us to drag and drop work items within a sprint backlog item to set their priorities in the same way that you can prioritize product backlog items.

          Currently work items have no default priority value and setting the correct priority order requires setting this value for all work items.

          7 votes
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            0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • Allow Test Case Work Items to be created for Native C++ Unit tests

            I want the ability to associate native C++ Unit tests to Work Items of type Test Case so that I can import these test cases into Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and run these tests from MTM. We already have a large number of C# unit tests and we have done a large amount of automation around MTM. We do not want to solve this automation problem again for native C++ Unit tests.

            110 votes
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            • 1 vote
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                0 comments  ·  .NET  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • Allow auto-layout in ADO.Net Entity Model Designer to be disabled

                Much as I love ADO.Net Entity Data Model Designer (VS2010), one feature is making me INSANE.

                When initially putting together a complex data model, it's perfectly fine (and desirable) that Designer figures out on its own where the lines delineating associations are placed. However, eventually, I wind up meticulously placing those lines myself for the sake of readability.

                But if I finish my painstaking layout, and then decide to, say, add a property to an existing entity, Designer redoes my entire layout, or at least every association line that leads to or from that entity.

                It's the definition of frustrating.…

                15 votes
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                  1 comment  ·  User Interface  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Auto-generate guard code for Event Invocation

                  Have the C# compiler auto-generate guard code around the invocation of an event.

                  Rather than:
                  if (OnChanged != null) OnChanged(this,EventArgs.Empy);

                  Let the programmer just code:
                  Onchanged(this, EventArgs.Empty);

                  The implication is consistent -- "Raise the event for any (0 or more) registered listeners."

                  3 votes
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                    1 comment  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Add Save As feature for Solution and Project in visual Studio File menu .

                    I would like to suggest a feature in Visual Studio, As i am facing this problem since many years, so thought to suggest here.

                    when I write some sample code in Visual Studio by selecting any of the project templates, i want to save that project in a different location(new) with a different name(new), it is applied to solution too.

                    As you people know Save As option in Notepad, MS Word and in so many other applications.

                    Functionality of this may be like this :
                    Can have two options in file menu
                    1. Save Project As
                    2. Save Solution As

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                    • Allow different source control between different solution

                      I'm working on svn and tfs.
                      so when I open a new vs instance for a solution,the souce code control tools is which the last I used.
                      can we provide a setting to config a source control to a solution or project?

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                        0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Profiler - Start on Breakpoint, Stop on Breakpoint

                        Add a "When Hit" breakpoint option to start or stop the profiler. This is a common action. When our dev team was reviewing some profiler results we discussed that this is something that would be quite useful as typically only a section of code or action would need to be profiled. One could set start and stop breakpoints and we would only get a profile of the execution between these breakpoints. Note the breakpoint would not "stop" execution, just perform an action. Currently we often do this manually, over and over during a profiler session.

                        3 votes
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                          0 comments  ·  Performance  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Change to "Invite Model" for Adding Users to TFService

                          If an invite email were sent to newly added users, it could possibly avoid unnecessary delays if a Windows Live ID is typed incorrectly. Tracking could also be added so an Admin can see if the invite has been sent or accepted.

                          See the following forum post for my experience: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/TFService/thread/69b1be9b-d5d9-495e-a51c-af8f157ff074

                          3 votes
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                            0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • Bug Report in Team Foundation Server Login

                            This is actually a bug report, I couldn't find another place to post this so I'm posting it here.

                            Once logged into team foundation server, its impossible to logout and sign in again with a different profile. This is a security risk as the person who initially logged out, would not know that he's actually still is logged in.

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                              0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • I suggest to use double click to close a code tab, just like firefox.

                              I suggest to use double click to close a code tab, just like firefox.

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                                0 comments  ·  IDE  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • Remove everything outdated and antiquated from .NET vNext

                                .NET is starting to have a lot of the same "mess" than Java had when .NET pummeled it in the early part of the last decade. We have stuff like ArrayList, non-generic collections, ADO.NET, stream-based XML processing, and LINQ to SQL all cluttering up the libraries. It's rare I find a .NET developer who things he's using the best tools available but is wasting his time using some of these older, slower, ******-to-use libraries.

                                .NET is becoming too hard to learn to be good at for new developers fresh out of school. They're going to go to other languages they…

                                11 votes
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                                  1 comment  ·  .NET  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • TFS Web Access from VS 2010

                                  Once I access the same server from VS 2012 and access Setting-> Group Membership, it opens the TFS Web Access.

                                  Issue: When VS 2010 connect to TFS 2012, Group Membership option is opening the TFS Group properties Window instead of the TFS Web access page.

                                  3 votes
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                                    0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • TFS Web Access from VS 2010

                                    Once I access the same server from VS 2012 and access Setting-> Group Membership, it opens the TFS Web Access.

                                    Issue: When VS 2010 connect to TFS 2012, Group Membership option is opening the TFS Group properties Window instead of the TFS Web access page.

                                    2 votes
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                                      0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • Let different projects build different configurations in same build

                                      When choosing several projects (i.e. several .csproj files) I would like to choose a different configuration/s for each project.
                                      For example I have, projects A and B, and I would like that A build in "Debug" only and B build in "Release" only.
                                      Currently it builds both A and B in Debug and Release if I choose those build configurations.

                                      The problem is that sometimes some projects don't have a certain build configuration and the entire build fails because of this.

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                                        0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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                                          0 comments  ·  .NET  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • Let us create multiple collections on Team Foundation Service

                                          As an organization with 25+ developers and 15+ ongoing/supported projects for several customers, we need the ability to group our team projects into different project collections.

                                          I am sure we are not the only ones.

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                                            7 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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