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  1. Allow Agents/Envrionments/Controller to be reused/shared for Scalability/Efficiency in VS Lab Management

    I'd like to maintain one big pool of test agents and evironments for both queuing tests from the VS IDE, and for built verification tests from VS 2010 Lab Management. Please allow me to consolidate these envrionments and use them more efficiently. Please also introduce a concept of load-balanced deployments for VS Lab Management (e.g., an envrionment that can take builds from multiple branches, or even better a pool or envrionments)

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    • Get Business Types (such as Phone) to store the settings centrally

      Get business types be able to store settings centrally, i.e. if you add a custom phone number type, you have to manually add it to each column where you use Phone.
      When you add a new setting it should be stored is a way that allows all instances to use it or it should be optional.

      11 votes
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        1 comment  ·  LightSwitch  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Provide prerequisites installer for Visual Studio 11

        Provide a prerequisites installer for Visual Studio 11 in a manner similar to SharePoint 2010. Therefore, if users want to install all of the prerequisites before installing the full version of Visual Studio 11, they can do so and therefore avoid the re-boots in the middle of the installation process. In addition, if all of the prerequisites have already been met, then the installation can simply proceed with the installation of Visual Studio 11 directly.

        4 votes
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          under review  ·  0 comments  ·  Install  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • The options dialogue in VS.NET shall be resizable

          Regarding the dialogue at Menu: "Tools" / "Options...":
          Why is the options dialogue not resizable? The dialogue box is very small, so you can't see as much as would be helpful. Many items would win if I could see more of the content.
          Set a minimum fixed width, but allow us with big screens to use the available space - screen space is for free :-)

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            0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • "Publish Web" dialog should maintain focus when opened with keyboard

            In VS11 the "Publish Web" dialog should maintain focus when opened with a hotkey. The dialog loses focus and requires additional steps to publish compared to vs2010.

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              0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Allow images (screenshots) in work item descriptions - out of the box

              Allow in the standard work item, that the description includes screenshots.
              A very basic use case for a bug tracker is: describe a problem with a series of screenshots showing what happens.
              "I click on the menu X and select the chevron"
              [screenshot]
              "Now I drag the right hand side and the layout gets messed up"
              [screenshot]
              If I drag it back again the layout partially restores
              [screenshot]

              I know you can attach screenshots, but this is very clumsy and completely separate from the description.

              For bonus points
              - allow some simple formatting
              - provide a trivial image editor to…

              10 votes
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                0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • 4 votes
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                  0 comments  ·  General  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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                  • 1 vote
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                    • Unit Test Explorer: Reinstate single test result in tabbed document

                      I agree that double-clicking a test result should open the test source code, not the test result details, but it seems there is now no option to view the test result details. The section at the bottom of the Unit Test Explorer that shows the exception and stack trace when a failed test is selected is too small to be usable. Reinstate an option that allows you to view the full test results in a tabbed document like VS2010, including: exception details, stack trace, debug trace, console output, etc (see attached).

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                      • Improve high number of open files performance (20+)

                        VS11 performance on my existing VS2011 enterprise project is horrific. (Had to completely rebuild project for VS2010 as it wouldnt open due to MVC Razor bug in 2011)

                        I have 3 projects, the biggest an autogenerated ORM with 500+ files, a tiny Common project and an MVC 3 website. Razor performance is noticably slower than VS10 as well as now not working within JavaScript, what? Why would you break that even more than it was broken in VS10, MS had a whole year to sort out the buggy Razor integration and it actually went backwards! Incredible.

                        The indexing/filtering explorers are…

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                          0 comments  ·  Performance  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Board: Allow PBIs to be placed on the task board like tasks (PBIs without children are not shown)

                          Let the team decide if it wants to further decompose a PBI or not. Small PBIs should appear on the task board alongside with regular tasks, that are used to decompose larger PBIs/Bugs.

                          35 votes
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                            under review  ·  6 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • Allow user to disable auto connect to TFS

                            Currently the method to disable TFS auto connect is a registry key. This would be more useful / visible to the user in the options dialog.

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                              0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • Improve CSS merging

                              TFS Auto-Merge works pretty well for most files, but CSS it seems to have real trouble with. Virtually every time i try to merge my CSS it messes it up. Please imporve the CSS merging and make it more intelligent.

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                                0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • Have Color.FromName return Color.FromARGB(255,0,0,0) where the string that is passed to it is not recognised.

                                Have Color.FromName return Color.FromARGB(255,0,0,0) where the string that is passed to it is not recognised.

                                This would support Forms and controls which only support solid colors.

                                19 votes
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                                  3 comments  ·  Windows Forms  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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                                    0 comments  ·  Languages - C#  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • Give me the ability to increase font size for display of work items and work item queries

                                    If I'm in a status meeting projecting current work items and/or bugs from a work-item query onto a screen, there is no way to increase the size of the list without dropping my screen resolution. I can find font size tweaks for virtually every other part of the UI, but not for work items.

                                    6 votes
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                                      1 comment  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • Offer different deployment-options

                                      ATM, the only deployment method that is available is ClickOnce. While this is mostly the best choice, we need to be able to change to a different deployment solutions.

                                      8 votes
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                                        1 comment  ·  LightSwitch  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                      • .NET Dynamic References For Specific Builds

                                        Sometimes at our organization we need to dynamically change our references depending on what type of build we are making. As it is now Visual Studio doesn't have a means to assign conditional references in projects. (ie: If HomeEdition build reference basic security.dll. If enterprise version build reference extended security.dll)

                                        Dynamically loading .net classes using reflection isn't always the answer when some classes have to be used extensively.

                                        8 votes
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                                          0 comments  ·  .NET  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • Annotate View should allow one to go back in time

                                          When activating Annotate View for a source file, then one can see what revisions changed what parts of the current code.

                                          It would be useful to be able to right-click a code-part-revision and choose "Show Annotate View before this revision". It would then activate a new Annotate View base on the version history from just before the specified revision.

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                                            2 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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