When VIsual studio goes into debug mode, there is a different window layout that kicks in, watch window, solution explorer, locals and all other windows have different positioning when visual studio goes into debug mode, that can be annoying and distracting as all my windows are already in a good location. Keeping the windows in the same location for both debug and coding should be good enough. It seems to be a feature that doesn't help much and distracts me. At least turning it off would be nice and probably faster to start the debug session as it would avoid all the winodw and pane moving.

I'm going to have a work and personal account. While I don't want to mix these two accounts, it would be nice to identify that both are 'me' and be able to direct the appropriate contacts from you. As it is I have email going to both my personal and work account and it would be nice to have it all go one place without needing to shut it down. Ideally I'd like to be able to manage contacts for my different accounts from a single interface and then if for example my work account is closed you still know who I am and I can detach the work account because of a loss of rights. Let me be clear want my personal account to be dominant for identity - but need to use a work identity in that scenario and when/if I change jobs I cut the old work account free. The credentials remain separate and auto-forwarding isn't an option, just which notifications will be sent to which account while I have rights to both.

Hi,

There should be option to save the regular expression by name in VS 2012 find and replace window, so that we can save any regular expression and use it while next time. E.g. to remove extra space we can save the (^(?([^\r\n])\s)*\r?$\r?\n) regular expression as “Remove extra lines”, and this will be appear under the standard regular expression list under “Custom Expressions” menu, So that we can use this saved expression next time.

We can also provide manage custom search menu where we can provide the functionality to add edit, delete existing custom (User defined) saved regular expression.

Anand More,
C3IT Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

i need to compile ONLY source code files
for example :

i two modules (code files)

main_class.cs - math_class.cs

and that math class is used by main class

i've compiled both main class and math class

and then i edited the math class ...and wanted to rebuild the whole project
i will have to recompile ONLY the math class and relink the whole project

the compiler should Preprocessor then compile then assemble
and then the linker could be used to link object code files containing the MSIL encoded in binaries
just like C/C++.

like that i can better isolate compile time errors on a specific peace of code rather than getting errors from the whole app code ,also i don't have to re-preprocess then re-compile then re-assemble Every single file in the project that will take a lot of time.

Make it easy to add T4 Templates to the Visual Studio UI so I don't have to create a Visual Studio Extension and package up. An extension should be an option, but I'd like to be able to drop T4 Templates into a folder and have Visual Studio automatically pick it up and make it show up in the Visual Studio UI as a button on a toolbar. The button opens a window with a list of available T4 Templates. Maybe allow sub folders to create a categorical list of T4 Templates. When a template is selected from the list allow the template to bring up a dialog box to allow the user to enter parameters for the template. The functionality needs to support multiple file output as well.

Imagine how the T4 community would grow if this functionality was built into the IDE.

Within Visual Studio, when you add a resource file (.resx) file to a solution that is bound to TFS, an error it output from the IDE. This error also comes up when trying to check-in changes. The error is copied in below;

All files are up to date.
BMCommerceStoreAdmin.csproj.vspscc, BMCommerceStoreAdmin.csproj have been automatically checked out for editing.
The item C:\Projects\KYCommerce_trunk\BMCommerceStoreAdmin\ProductCategory\App_LocalResources\ViewCategory.aspx.Designer.cs could not be found in your workspace, or you do not have permission to access it.

To reproduce;

1) Open Visual Studio 2010
2) Create a new solution and add a "web Application" project to it
3) In Visual Studio bind the solution and project to a TFS project
4) Create an App_Resources folder
5) Add a resource file to the "App_resources" folder and try to checkin the project.