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  1. Improve the performance of Visual Studio

    Visual Studio seems to be getting slower. Please focus on improving the performance and limiting the enormous load on the HDD

    5,011 votes
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      90 comments  ·  Performance  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

      An update on performance – First, thank you to all who provided the ideas and votes on the performance forum. We used that data to help prioritize the improvements in VS 2012, and as such, I’ve rolled the performance ideas into this main forum. You’ll see a performance tag which shows all the ideas from that forum.

      This idea remains very highly voted, but has slipped outside the top 20 in terms of hot votes, meaning few people are still voting for it.

      We’re going to leave it open for now, and monitor that count, as you can never truly be “finished” with performance. At some point, we’ll close the idea out and return your votes back to you. Of course, you are welcome to resubmit the idea at that time, to see if there is still energy around that as a top idea.

      Again, thanks for your feedback and…

    • Debug Lambda expressions

      Allow Quick Watch and other Debug functions to work with Lambda expressions.

      "Expression cannot contain lambda expressions" makes this powerful language feature second-class within the IDE.

      Especially for data intensive applications being able to write Lambda expressions in the Quick Watch, Watch, Immediate Windows and debug evaluation is a must have.

      5,100 votes
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        under review  ·  33 comments  ·  Languages - C#  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • x64 edit and continue

        Imporve x64 debugger so Edit and Contunue works when running on Windows x64 o/s

        1,679 votes
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          under review  ·  56 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Bring back Classic Visual Basic, an improved version of VB6

          The silent majority of VB6 users did not ask for changes that came with .NET

          We request Microsoft brings back classic Visual Basic as COM development is back with Windows 8.

          David Platt wrote an excellent article about why classic VB still thrives:
          http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj133828.aspx

          1,477 votes
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            138 comments  ·  Languages - Visual Basic  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • New Work Item Control: Checkbox

            Creating string fields with "Yes" and "No" (or "True" or "False", or "1" and "0") as allowed values, is a viable "workaround" for a Yes/No field - but still, a real checkbox control would make it even better.

            btw: Checkboxes are a Windows control introduced from the very beginning (Windows 1 actually, I checked. ;)

            379 votes
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              4 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • rename project in TFS

              Rename existing project in TFS

              2,714 votes
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                88 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • Support a JavaScript Project type in Visual Studio

                Please provide a new project type in Visual Studio for developing JavaScript components.

                The new project type could have the following features:

                - Contains .js, .css, and .html files.
                - Represents a complete UI component - i.e. a module or widget.
                - Runs JSLint or JSHint on build and reports any errors and violations.
                - The build ouput is minified JavaScript and CSS; there should be options for specifying a minifier.
                - The build output should also output any HTML files (as ASP.Net partial views).
                - The new project type permits adding references to other JavaScript projects.
                - Intellisense is…

                179 votes
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                  under review  ·  7 comments  ·  Languages - JavaScript  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Easy way delete a task or work item in Team Foundation Server

                  It is common to make a few mistakes, duplicates etc when entering a bunch of new work items or tasks. There is no easy way to delete the bad ones and try again.

                  I know it is possible to to do this from the comamnd line, but it is a pain and defeats the purpose of having a GUI. The end result is that poor items get left in the project because it is a pain in the *** to remove them and start over.

                  24 votes
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                    8 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Add a RowTest attribute to MSTest to facilitate parameterized tests.

                    It would be great to have a RowTest attribute (like in NUnit) added to facilitate parameterized tests, like:

                    [RowTest]
                    [Row(10, 10, 100)]
                    Public void Add_MultipleValues_ReturnsSum(int x, int y, int expected) { … }

                    178 votes
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                    • Function return value in debugger

                      I want to able to see function return value in managed debugger just like unmanaged debuger (it has this feature from Visual Studio 6.0!).

                      1,069 votes
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                        under review  ·  10 comments  ·  Debugger  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • ...develop an empowering Process Template editor!!

                        The current editor's user experience is a barrier to process improvement through customization of of the template itself. The idea that an out of the box process template will satisfy all customer needs (or even one of the several shipped by MSFT) will be a limiting factor on meaningful and valuable implementations of the product.

                        394 votes
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                          under review  ·  4 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Allow for updating process templates on existing projects in TFS

                          To keep up with improving processes, there needs to be a migration path for existing templates to be upgraded to new templates. Some information in work items may be lost when mapping these to new work item types of the new templates, but this may well worth the benefits of moving to a newer process. Creating a new team project is not always feasible, especially if the source code versioning needs to be in place.

                          900 votes
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                            under review  ·  10 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • Provide TF build activities like "deploy web app", "deploy database", or "copy file"

                            Currently, to get these features into a CI build, we have to pass a lot of MS Build properties around. Having gone through the trouble of creating my own templates to handle these features, it would be nice to see them included out of the box.

                            271 votes
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                              3 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • Support C++11 features

                              Support C++11 features

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                                67 comments  ·  Languages - C++  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                                The next version of Visual C++ (v11) will already implement a few new features, the ones highlighted here (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/09/12/10209291.aspx).

                                We’re definitely looking at options to get more features into people’s hands before a complete release cycle (before v12). It would be premature to say anything more specific right now. Hopefully, in the coming months, we’ll have more to say about that.

                              • Provide refactoring support for F# code.

                                Currently F# IDE integration into visual studio does not have any refactoring support. It would be nice to at the very least be able to handle renaming.

                                989 votes
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                                  9 comments  ·  Languages - F#  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • Add context menu item in solution explorer to open Source Control Explorer showing selected file

                                  When you right-click in VS 2010 Solution Explorer it would be great to have a shortcut there that opens up Source Control Explorer immediately showing the selected file.

                                  Currently a user is required to open Source Control Explorer and manually expand (and know) all the folders in the path to get to the desired location.

                                  90 votes
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                                    under review  ·  6 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • shortcut for opening the parent bug

                                    I am a regular user of TFS. Many bugs are resolved as duplicate of other bugs. Do we have a shortcut to directly open the master bug.
                                    If not , this will be a good idea to do so.

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                                      0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • Centralized Build View & Management

                                      Create an interface to centrally view and manage builds for administrators. As an admin that manages builds across team projects, I find it tedious that I have to navigate to each Team Project’s Build Explorer to see current build activity. It makes it even worse that you force each Build Explorer to open in the same VS Window.

                                      Minimally, the interface would be the current Build Explorer without the Team Project filter, thus allowing admins to have a central view of build activity. Ideally, it would be a similar interface that allows for a centralized build activity view and also…

                                      182 votes
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                                        2 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                      • Creating Queries - Token for Current Iteration

                                        When creating a work item query, you are given the option to select the iteration path for which the query is to return results for. It will be fantastic if a token was provided such as [Active Iteration] and you can specify the active iteration manually, or TFS calculating it via the Start/End dates

                                        411 votes
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                                          under review  ·  15 comments  ·  Project  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • Provide the ability to convert a work item to a different type

                                          ...for example, change an existing work item from an Issue to a Bug, etc.

                                          Users less familiar with the system frequently enter work items using the wrong work item type. Currently, you can't fix these items.

                                          150 votes
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                                            under review  ·  5 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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