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  1. Allows reporting on test cases executed by version, and you can set up fields and parameters

    Allows reporting on test cases executed by version, and you can set up fields and parameters

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    • make IE 11 and later support webgl

      because IE do not support webgl, run webgl game on Widows Phone 8 or Windows 8 metro mode is impossible.
      Please Make IE 11 and later support webgl

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        0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Add 'Remaining Work' field to bug WIT in Scrum template (TFS Cloud Preview)

        Add 'Remaining Work' field to bug WIT in Scrum template (TFS Cloud Preview) to enable teams to include this work in their burndowns, forecast and the board.
        Bugs are work, they require capacity - would be great if we had a way to add these to the backlog calculations in the same way tasks (or new work) are accounted for.
        We can customize WITs for the Server but this isn't possible in Preview projects (today :).

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          0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • C# Profiler

          Some basic profiling features in Visual Studio Professional and below would be great.

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            0 comments  ·  General  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • Debug object initializer block

            Related to my previous idea of adding a new scope for object initializers, I'd like to see each statement of an object initializer block be debuggable. Currently, if there's an exception in one of the assignments (very often there are NullReferenceExceptions, especially in LINQ to XML), the only way to figure out where the exception is is to break the block apart into separate statements. This defeats the purpose of using them.

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              0 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Allow the use of tree path field in user custom field in TFS work item editor.

              Add ne wcustom filed of type tree path to the work items.

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                1 comment  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • "One-shot" warnings

                It would be nice to have a sort of "one-shot" warning based on possibile typing mistake. An example can clarify this point:
                I write this simple code:
                for (int i=0; i < myVector1.size(); i++){
                for (int k=0; k < myVector2.size(); i++){
                ....

                Due to common copy and paste while programming, it happens that some times some mistakes are done, like above, where in the second for loop the "i" variable is used instead of "k". For the compiler point of view this is OK but normally for a programmer not.
                That's why a "single-shot" warning. If the line of code…

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                  0 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Allow an on-site source control solution tied into the TFS Service on Azure (tfspreview)

                  Currently you must push your source control for the TFSPreview into the cloud hosted by MS. A lot of clients, especially military, government and contractors of M&G require source control to be hosted on-site. Allow us to designate on-site source control servers to tie into the tfs preview so that work item management is off-site, while a stripped down version of TFS for source control is on-site.

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                    0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Make TFS Web UI touch friendly

                    It is difficult to manage multiple projects with a tablet, which is common when I am in front of a client.

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                      0 comments  ·  General  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • Add Support for dynemic linq queries in c#

                      Add Support for dynamic linq queries in c#
                      Ex: Query

                      var query = Northwind.Products
                      .Where(item => item.CategoryID== 2 && item.UnitPrice >3)
                      .OrderBy(item => item.SupplierID)

                      Can also be written as :

                      var query = Northwind.Products
                      .Where("CategoryID=2 And p.UnitPrice>3")
                      .OrderBy("SupplierID")

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                        0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Add a posibility to pack files before publishing (web) project.

                        Add a posibility to pack files before publishing web project. It takes less time to publish one compressed files instead of hundreds of them. I'm deploying app using filesystem method via network into IIS and it takes an hour to publish app while packing files into .zip file and sending and unpacking on server.

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                          0 comments  ·  General  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • 3 votes
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                            0 comments  ·  IDE  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • Add additional filtering options to Find and Find and Replace to support partial classes across multiple files.

                            When doing a Find or Find and Replace, there are options for Current Document, Current Project, Open Files and Entire Solution. It would be great if there was support for partial classes, maybe something like Current Class, Current Class in Project, Current Class in Solution.

                            Current Class would be a file and its associated designer, Current Class in Project would be all partial classes regardless of file name and Current Class in Solution would be all partial classes regardless of name and namespace (eg a WCF class defined in a Services project with a corresponding partial class in a WPF…

                            3 votes
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                              0 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • Allow easy export of folder diff to excel or plain text

                              It's relatively simple to compare two folders, but I haven't found an easy way to export that to a text file or an easily queryable excel file. Youc an get there from the command line (with some work), but there's also no easy way to copy/paste all the command line parameters from the UI or to invoke the modify filter dialog from the command line.

                              See also: http://blog.jessehouwing.nl/2012/06/generating-changelog-from-tfs.html

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                                0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • 3 votes
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                                • Add support for Conditional Compiler directives in triple slash (///) documentation

                                  We use a shared codebase for our Silverlight/WPF/Windows Phone 7 API Reference. Our developers use different Conditional Compiler directives in the C# code to construct the three different API’s. As a Product Engineer, I am responsible for documenting the various Types in the source code with triple slash (///)documentation. Our triple slash documentation is extensive (sometimes hundreds of lines of comments per Type) as we use it for an input to construct API documentation via software like Document! X.

                                  The problem is Visual Studio 2010 will not honor Conditional Compiler directives in the triple slash (///) comments in the same…

                                  3 votes
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                                      0 comments  ·  Windows 8 Apps  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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                                      • finally add something to make a code editor more useful - like in NetBeans or Eclipse - where Alt+Enter actually helps you.

                                        Add the possibility to create the code without so much mouse clicking (why do I have to hover over the error to see what it is about?). I need a shortcut that allows me to solve the problem. Ctrl + . only seems to work from time to time. Why is intellisense not no intelli after all? if I am trying to assign something to a string reference - why aren't the methods that are returning the string on the top of the list.

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                                          0 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • VS2010 : go back to old find dialog (like in VS2010) or allow disabling the quickfind

                                          Hi all,

                                          The new "Quickfind" - panel of VS2012 is annoying. It does not respond as expected and could not be positioned as needed.
                                          It slows down all work.

                                          So I would suggest to go generally back to the old "find dialog" or allow the users to disable the new "quickfind" toolwindow.

                                          Best regards,
                                          dp.

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                                            1 comment  ·  User Interface  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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