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Thanks – Deon Herbert
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  1. Be able to easily add custom fields in any item screen for data entry - bugs, etc...

    Need ability to add custom fields, custom tabs, with text fields, drop down selections, radio buttons, etc... like in Sharepoint

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      0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • make tabs highlight / bold based on information already entered there

      When viewing an existing item, have the tabs be colored/bold if there has been information entered during creation of the item

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        0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Ability to write custom queries for datasource type Database instead of selecting table

        Currently, if database datasource is used for any test than, we get option to select only table. There should be an option to use a query also. This will enable to write custom queries which can include ORDER BY / GROUP BY / WHERE / JOINS etc.

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        • Have the ability to make [currentuser] as a valid value in TFS work items

          Cater for situations where users can only assign either themselves or members of a predefined group to work items.

          <ALLOWEDVALUES not="[project]\ResourceManagers" expanditems="true">
          <LISTITEM value="[project]\DefaultAssignee" />
          <LISTITEM value="[currentuser]" />
          </ALLOWEDVALUES>

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            0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • add zoom to embedded html pages in the IDE

            The start page, embedded internet explorer pages, and even the results page from unit tests are all HTML pages.

            Unlike any other source file, HTML pages ignore zoom changes using CTRL-Mousewheel. Please make the embedded HTML renderer act as the internet explorer 9.

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              0 comments  ·  IDE  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • TFSWeb Access can be configured to open new tabs rather than new windows

              Allow TFSWeb Access to be configured to open new tabs rather than new windows

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                0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • when you create a new bookmark that the IDE uses the selected text as bookmark name. Morever adding a textbox to filter names

                For example I'm editing veyr long HTMLs, and I usually set many bookmarks, but I have to spend time naming them. It would be faster for me if:
                - The IDE automatically names the bookmark using the selected text. (see the attach image and the red marks as example)
                - The IDE provides some textboxes for filtering the bookmarks. So if I have many of them, I can see only the ones that matches my current need. (see for example the yellow marks).

                Regards,
                Herber

                10 votes
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                  4 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Provide a customizable stream buffer size for WCF services that return Streams.

                  By default (without any ability to change the value) WCF services that implement a Stream response type cannot change the output buffer size from 16K (or 32K). Would like the ability to change this buffer size to a reasonably low value to support smaller byte arrays.

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                    0 comments  ·  .NET  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Allow schema object updates from database projects TO databases

                    This would allow developers to make incremental changes/additions in the VS IDE, and DBAs would be able to push schema objects at a granular level. This would make a lot more sense for TFS as database projects shouldn't be a reflection of the database (ie a periodic backup repository), but rather a development platform for the database.

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                      1 comment  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • Mobile-based web-applications for targets with innate resource-constrained environment, browser apps

                      Please enable required features to mobile-based develop applications using various browser-engines (Webkit2, Gecko, V8, Rhino, Chakra) etc., for making developers adapt to visual studio for writing code at great-ease.

                      A partial list of features which might be required as part of this idea are:

                      1. Monitoring of transport/session layer (i.e., HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, SOCKS, TELNET, any other port valid in context to the mobile-webapp)
                      2. Synchronous/Asynchronous modes of javascript execution monitoring.
                      3. Indirect/Proxy mode supported browsers.
                      a. Various proxies involved for optimizing mobile web content suitable for browsers running inside smartphones i.e., Content optimizing, Content transcoding, Content media quality…

                      4 votes
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                        0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Change DeploymentItem so it copies Files for each TestMethod

                        The DeploymentItem allows currently only to copy a file once. It will not be overwritten automatically if it is still in the folder but a new TestMethod is executed. This is very anoing for real unit tests and could easily be fixed by adding a property with which it is possible to define that a file shall overwrite existing once.

                        11 votes
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                        • Support for hierarchyid

                          Add support for the hierarchyid datatype. Ideally, this would be combined with the ability to manipulate items in the hierarchy (moving trees, etc.)

                          36 votes
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                            0 comments  ·  LightSwitch  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • add type inference for fields

                            example:
                            class Foo
                            {
                            private var customers = new List<Customer>();
                            ...
                            }

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                              0 comments  ·  .NET  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • give me a way to flush the MSBuild targets cache

                              In Visual Studio 2010, targets files used in the building of a solution are cached by the IDE and there is no obvious way to flush the cache other than restarting Visual Studio as a whole.

                              This means that if you are customizing your build process in a modular fashion with targets files, you're forced to restart the whole IDE before any changes take effect. This makes using Visual Studio to customize your build process very inefficient and discourages good practice of packaging reusable portions of a build process into targets files.

                              Please remedy this by either giving us the…

                              26 votes
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                                1 comment  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • Insert "PagingEnabled"-dependencyproperty for a ScrollViewer

                                Sometimes scrolling isn't doing what you want, sometime you want to have a ScrollViewer that is paging instead of scrolling.

                                When developing for iOS the Scrollviewer has the option "PagingEnabled", please create one for a ScrollViewer to or let the developer choose in XAML between paging and scrolling

                                10 votes
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                                  0 comments  ·  .NET  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • Optimize Team Explorer 2011 for keyboard use

                                  1. Too many TABs or Arrow Key keys pressed before getting... well anywhere.
                                  2. Cannot collapse file tree when standing on a subtree or leaf with Left Key.
                                  3. Alt+Left Key does not return to previous view of team explorer.

                                  3 votes
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                                    2 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • Add option "Do not include new projects in build for active solution configurations "

                                    Every time we add new project to the Solution, VS is including new project for build in all active solution configurations. After that, we have to uncheck that project for most active configurations because we don't want to build it. Can you provide option:

                                    "Do not include new projects in build for active solution configurations "

                                    14 votes
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                                      0 comments  ·  IDE  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • reduce keyboard hotkeys

                                      i think, many hotkeys are not advantageous, because many hotkey only works in some content. Like F7 for switching to Code or Shift+F7 to WPF. I think, hotkey like this need only one hotkey.

                                      12 votes
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                                        0 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                      • Add hint for which properties in a class INotifyPropertyChanged.PropertyChanged is raised

                                        It would be nice to have that described in documentation to have clear point of view for which properties change notification happens (for example in ItemsCollection class).

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                                          2 comments  ·  General  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • improve the function of IntelliSense(C++)

                                          I felt confused when I typed in "template <typename T" and then typed in the symbol '>', it automatically changed the letter 'T' into "TCHAR". I hope you can identify the keyword "typename" to prevent this.

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