Provide a means to license the Dundas gauge controls since there is no decision to release the gauge controls Microsoft purchased. We can with some work convert from the Dundas chart to the Microsoft Chart controls in datavizualization. We are orphaned on the gauge controls because Dundas can no longer sell licenses and Microsoft has not decided to release the gauges. Not a good thing. It would cost little to at least offer an as is license to the old Dundas gauge controls until a decision to release a version of them was made.

It would be great to be able to add a timeout to a try catch. Something in this spirit:

Try WithTimeOut(30s)
' do some long running stuff
return "Stuff done"
Catch(ex as TimeoutException)
return "Timeout after 30 seconds"
Catch(ex as Exception)
return "Some other exception happened"
End Try

And of course the Return "Stuff done" would stop the timeout.

I was going through the TFS Preview & found sprint dates are not aligned as per the effort & priority of sprint item given.

The XML docs C# supports are really ugly and without editor support extremely difficult and cumbersome to write. Even so, the editor support for them is surprisingly limited (unless you use ReSharper).

The C# compiler and Visual Studio should support JavaDoc/JSDoc style comments as well. They're much cleaner, easier to write/read/understand.

Making the documentation tools better is essential in increasing their adoption in the first place. The ugliness and complexity of XML docs prevents many people from writing them. XML is for machines to write and read, not humans.

"Queue New Build" -> "Parameters" tab display lists ~ 13 values; Limited scrolling.

Suggestion is to have display list as many parameters as are defined and listed in Edit Build Definition --> Process.

Unless you have the solution or project properties window update you have no indication that there are unsaved changes to projects. It's very easy to make changes without realising it (e.g: add a reference via Resharper). If you're using an external source control tool such as Git you are likely to stage and commit incomplete work because you need to press Ctrl + S first.
An asterisk at the right of the project name would adequate, or maybe a colour change... whatever.

Though you now can execute tests via the test tab on the TFS2012 web client, you cannot specify a build that is used for uploading the results. When analyzing the test run later via Microsoft Test Manager, all test test results are uploaded without build information, even if a default build was defined in the test manager property pages.

This makes the test tab on the webclient useless in case if is required to always run tests against a build.

It will be great if a developer can debug a windows application dlls. Because every time we need to connect to the customer and debug through code. What I am trying to say is like how we can debug a html page. the same way we need option to debug in c#dlls.

Hi,

I am wondering why class view does not retain its previous state after application re-opens. Or why there is no quick "expand all" option included.
It is quite annoying to reopen the tree everytime I re-launch the VS...

Run Program C# without Install .Net

At this moment Visual Studio displays in the title bar a string like
{Solution name} - Microsoft Visual Studio (Administrator)
It would be good to also display the VS version, 2010 or 2012, something like
{Solution name} - Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Administrator)
or
{Solution name} - Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (Administrator)

we get around the problem by clearing cookies... happens on both xp and 7, both firefox and chrome

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??

I provided this in bug 786979 (http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/786979/cannot-perform-a-get-operation-in-vs2012-tfs-when-a-solution-is-building). There is too much hand holding that has been introduced in VS2012--and this is part of it. It makes advanced users less productive. At least provide the ability to dismiss the message once you've seen it once as in earlier versions. I know you can still do this with the command line, but this is annoying if you simply want to get a single file up to date, especially with large solution structures with many files and folders such as we have.

It would be very useful for independent and young developers who want to do games!

The configurations chosen for projects in the Configuration-Manager should be exposed to the build-system by variables. Sometimes projects depending on other projects in the same solution need special setup depending on what configuration was chosen for the dependency. Currently only the configuration chosen for the project to be built is exposed - not for the other projects in the solution.