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  1. Make it easier to setup keyboard shortcuts to external tools/commands.

    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.

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      0 comments  ·  IDE  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Power and Speed accessor

      Lets say my program is limited to so many instructions per second while trying to figure out how efficient an algorithm is or to do some load testing, or for a customers specific algorithm. It would be cool if there was a model to turn on power and speed in a function that was secure for maybe a certain time frame like 4 minutes for a customer of a program I created so that it can smash through a process or two.

      Some of the overloads for the function would include like billing information and maybe a confirmation, so it…

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        0 comments  ·  General  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Let the Properties Window react on control in one click

        Since I have started developing with VS 2010 I am missing a tiny "feature".

        In VS 2008, when I selected a control (without the properties window as docked tab on the right side of the IDE being in the foreground) and then clicked the properties tab (to bring the properties tab to the foreground) I saw the properties of the selected control immediately.

        Now, in VS 2010 I have to select the control a second time in this case to load its properties in to the properties window.

        I tried to deal with it, but its kinda annoying me. Maybe…

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          0 comments  ·  IDE  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Opening, Editing, and Saving Reports in .pdf

          I am a freelance developer who writes specialized reporting projects for some of the local businesses here in the Minneapolis, MN area. They have asked me for years why I can not come up with a way to allow the reports to be save in a .pdf format. I have to tell them that either I would have to charge them an ungodly fee for a third party license or simply leave that part out of the project and just let it go to the printer. My suggestion to Microsoft is to finally allow a .pdf file extension (similar to…

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          • Team Explorer Everywhere: Save Comments for Reuse

            Almost daily I try to check in some pending changes. I enter a comment, because it is required by our TFS server. I might spend 2 or 3 minutes writing a very detailed comment describing all of the changes and why I am making them. When I press "Check In" I get a dialog stating that there are conflicts. I resolve the conflicts and now what... Nothing. I have to press "check in pending changes" again. My comment is lost. I have to write it over again. Another 3 minutes re-writing the comment and some frustration go by, then I…

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              0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Make the title "Source Control Explorer" shorter so it fits better in tab list

              The "Source Control Explorer" tab goes in the tab list along with all the other files. Honestly, I wish it didn't -- I'd rather put that over on my second monitor. But a much easier to implement request is for you to pick a short name, like "Source Control" or "SrcCtrlExp" or "SCE", just so that when I pin that in my tab list, it takes up a lot less space than it does today in VS 2010.

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              • I think it is a good idea if we are able to add loadtest in an ordered test.

                I think it is a good idea if we are able to add loadtest in an ordered test. In my case, I first run a unit test to check whether the server-client setup is set properly. If I this unit test is failed there is no point in running the loadtest. So I can abort my automated application to after unit test failure. Now, the workaround is to have an intermediate script/batchfile to test the failure and bypass the loadtest run. But if I were able to add my loadtest in an orderedtest I would not have to go though…

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                  0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Ability not to track changes for specific file or folder

                  with using git i can mark a file to not to track changes with this command.

                  git update-index –assume-unchanged TestFile.cs

                  it would be good to do the same within TFS administrator account under VS context menu

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                    0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Working with solutions unbinded from source control are very fast.

                    Try to post the server requirements for tfs to make it fast or what is the actual reason try to solve that. Equal speed with solution with binding and unbinded.

                    3 votes
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                      0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • Automatic display of Start page

                      Start page should automatically been shown when the last solution is closed.

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                        0 comments  ·  General  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • static method variables

                        lack of this feature is ridiculous.
                        please, implement it!

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                          0 comments  ·  Languages - C#  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Select in one click this-my-own-text

                          Suppose I have :

                          > this_my_own_text

                          with double left-click on my mouse, I can select the whole text. But, if the text is :

                          > this-my-own-text

                          I can select only a word, the one where the mouse is over, which is very boring working (for example) on CSS classes name (`.container-div-father`).

                          Maybe with some other key?

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                            0 comments  ·  IDE  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • Python Integration for ASP.NET

                            ASP.NET Python support apparently was available for VS2008 via a download, ASPNETFutures.msi. I vote for similar Python support in VS2010 and future releases of VS. (Python Tools for Visual Studio is nice but doesn't provide ASP.NET support.)

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                            • tfs preview burndown - completed work line

                              Create a new indicator of completed work, with loged hours/work. To get the real effort of "Iteration".

                              4 votes
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                              • Team Explorer Everywhere: Add Ability to Rollback one or more Changesets

                                I am using Team Explorer Everywhere v10.1.0 with Eclipse Indigo SR1 and JDK 1.6.0 u14.

                                Use Case 1 - Revert all changes for one or more Changeset(s)
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                                From the 'History' panel, I would like the ability to click on one or more changesets and select "Rollback all changes" or "Revert changes". In my local workfolder, this will undo the changes related to the selected changeset(s), after which time I can choose to view, Check In changes or Undo Pending changes. This is a common and very useful use-case from the Subversion revision control system.

                                Use Case 2 - Roll…

                                7 votes
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                                • Add a new User Voice Category to post ideas to called "Team Explorer Everywhere"

                                  I suggest you add a category called "Team Explorer Everywhere" to the User Voice submission form. Without it I have to post to General.

                                  3 votes
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                                  • Make IIS Express always available like IIS, or at least don't kill it when stopping debugger /

                                    One has to start the debugger to view a web page with IIS Express, which causes much of the IDE to become read-only, making it difficult to play with an app while making coding changes. When the debugger is stopped, the page can no longer be viewed in the browser. IIS does not have this issue since it is always available.

                                    6 votes
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                                    • Make C++ interfaces to XAML more useable for property and command binding like C# and VB.

                                      XAML Property and Command binding should work in C++ as they do in VB and C#. Also there needs to be more code samples in this area.

                                      3 votes
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                                        0 comments  ·  Languages - C++  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                      • Shortcut to duplicate current line/selection

                                        In Netbeans, when we press Ctrl+Shift+downKey, it duplicates the current line or selection just below the cursor. This comes handy, if we are inserting the same statement consecutively (perhaps with little modification... saves us from copy/paste). Please provide the similar shortcut for VS11.

                                        11 votes
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                                        • Shortcut to toggle between Action and View (MVC)

                                          In Netbeans (ruby-on-rails MVC project), we can toggle between Action and (its corresponding) View by pressing Alt+Shift+A. Please provide this useful shortcut for MVC3/4 projects in Visual Studio 11.

                                          12 votes
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