Several countries now expand their network like Egypt. This requires adding an extra number to the stored contacts. You may imagine doing this manually is a painful process. I wish it is possible to have APIs to edit the contacts info in code instead of just reading only the contacts' info.

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/554759/error-in-control-resx-file-when-adding-imagelist

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/532584/error-when-compiling-resx-file-seems-related-to-beta2-bug-5252020

When I get exception messages using the debugger, I would like to get the option for Visual Studio to give me the English counterpart instead of the one in my language (Dutch). Especially because I'm already using an English Visual C# program. Exception messages in less spoken languages are useless if you want to do research on the Internet about it.

When exporting to excel format using local processing in reportviewer 2008 there is a limit of 256 columns and 65,536 rows. It be useful to have this limit increased to excel 2007 format specifications.

When I switch branches on my code, functions move slightly and breakpoints end in the wrong lines. It seems VS remembers only the line number of each breakpoint. If VS remembered some context around breakpoints, it could reconstruct the new location better.

I need to change the default project namespace in project properties and do Search&Replace in all files already generated on startup every time I am starting a new project.

If namespace refactoring is not going to be available, at least allow us to set the namespace during creation of a new project.

At times when I report a bug and it is not reproducable, MS asks me to submit either a sample application or build log. There are times when I cannot submit this build log as it contains file, project, resource, reference, etc names. If there was a build mode which obfuscates the these above names then I don't have to worry when submitting my build log to MS

Currently Shared Steps cannot be created within other Shared Steps as the Insert Shared Steps, Create Shared Steps, Open Shared Steps right-click menu options are grayed out.

The favicon is the same as visual Studio. that makes pinning to taskbar confusing!!!!

WHY?

In the RC (didn't try the beta),when you select a file in the Solution Explorer a preview pane opens with the content of the file. This feature is awesome but it doesn't work for parent files. Like if you have an App.xaml with a nested App.xaml.cs file file preview will only work for the nested App.xaml.cs file and not the parent App.xaml file. Please make it work for both.

I was just wondering if there is a more appropriate icon for code files. For example in a c# project the most pertinent information is the fact that a .cs file is a code file not that it is a c# file, as all the code files will be written in c#.

1. packages for different architectures can be choosen during installation. e.g. if I don't develop fo Itatium, just give me a option not to
install anything(headers, libraries) related to Intel Itatium, and when updating service pack, don't install sp for features I haven't installed.
2.

It's really disappointing that Microsoft is restricting a core feature of Visual Studio that has to be available in all versions of VS including Express. If you look at the small companies and individuals that can't buy Premium Licences are forced not to use a feature that should have been part of core. I hope some wise men take decisions and not bunch of sales men.

The theme is about current merging of lightswitch html client forum and common lightswitch forum:
I understand that it is easier to manage one forum but for people (like me) which are concentrated on html client it will not be a good thing - i was subscribed to html client and now i have to sort the topics somehow (guess in common case it will require to go inside every topic to determine if it is about html and not about silverlight). It is not possible to make a separate subforum for html client?

After applying the LINQ on a DataTable we have CopyToDataTable() method to get the table from the resulting set.

But we can not do it straight away if we select a few columns that the real count. Why don't we have a method in common ?

Currently when running a load test with over 50 transactions, the graph "Transaction Response Time" only adds the first 50 transactions. This creates issues when running large tests, since you would need to manually add the additional transactions manually.

It would be very helpful if the screen designer had an option for the whole grid to turn it to read-only. Like the read-only setting on the data grid row this could be a checkbox.
This checkbox should change:
- make command buttons (add/delete/modify) invisible
- Set data grid row controls rto read-only
- Hide the add new row in the grid.

That would save us a lot of work, and that's what LightSwitch is about .