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  1. 3 votes
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      0 comments  ·  .NET  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Add the ability to restart all agents in a test rig from Lab Manager

      Add the capability to restart all of the agents in a lab from test manager. This functionality current exists in Visual Studio. This functionality would come in handy in situations where a previous test run fails and the agents get stuck in "limbo" and are not able to run subsequent tests. In labs comprised of a large number of machines manually restarting all of your agents can be very time-consuming.

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      • Caller Info attribute [CallerMemberNamespace]

        Just have seen the "Future Directions for C#" video.

        The Caller Info attributes

        [CallerFilePaht]
        [CallerLineNumer]
        [CallerMemberName]

        are very helpful, but missing the

        [CallerMemberNamespace]

        attribute.

        40 votes
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          4 comments  ·  Languages - C#  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Add multiselection treeview

          A Treeview for Windows Forms and WPF with a handling like the Windows Explorer, there have a multiseletion possibility of the treenodes.

          9 votes
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            0 comments  ·  Windows Forms  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • curly-brace formatting

            the formatting options for the various "C"-like languages should be more closely aligned.

            please make the indentation/spacing/new-line options for C++ & Javascript more powerful - similar to what's available for C#.

            3 votes
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              0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Ensure that all data entered is present in the Description View. I sometimes have to put a Return in manually.

              Sometimes, when I paste a description into the description field, not all of the information shows in the description box. I have to go in and put Returns in manually.

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                0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • Create an Office 2010 Ribbon in VC++

                I will can create an Office 2010 Ribbon with VC++

                12 votes
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                  1 comment  ·  Languages - C++  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Add possibility of attachments when sending an email

                  This would be great for easily send small pieces of data generated by apps (e.g. thumbnails, GPS coordinates, ink drawings, etc.)

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                    0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Divide write access to different levels like checkin/checkout files, add/delete files,folders.

                    Hi,

                    It would be nice to seperate write access to different levels to
                    - Checkin/Check out of files
                    - Add / Delete Files and Folders.

                    We have some projects where we don't want to give access to add / delete files and folders to developers. Please review it and it to your future releases.

                    Thanks,
                    Ravi Bavanari

                    7 votes
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                      0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • Customize the display name of test methods

                      Customize the name of test methods so they appear in Test View and Test Result windows with the customize name because, we don't want to name the method good name and we don't want to break the code rules of naming the methods and it also become not readable at all

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                        0 comments  ·  Visual Studio Ultimate  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Allow paste on the login screen from TFSPreview inside VS

                        When connect to TFSPreview server you cannot paste email address or password in the login screen.

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                          1 comment  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Screenshot function support for Windows Phone in ACTUAL device

                          Why Windows Phone only support screenshot funtion in emulator only?? That's really odd. When user wants to report a bugs to developer and wanna show actual screen shot, do they have to being a camera and take actual photo?? It would be really good when they have a screen shot function, so when user has noticed there is bugs, make them report to developers directly via outlook app in windows phone

                          6 votes
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                            1 comment  ·  Languages - C#  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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                              0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • Remove unused resources automatically

                              It would be very helpful if there could be a new item "remove unused resources". Maybe with a little list of unused resources, in a separate window and a customizable option "show unused resources as "warning/error/ignore".

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                                4 comments  ·  Editor  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • Simpler access to view and modify the persisted workflow instance data

                                Despite our best efforts and preventative measures, sometimes the only thing to be done is get in and fiddle the data. If we change a complex type that happens to have been used in a workflow in such a way that breaks deserialization, a workflow might not find out until some time after deployment. At this point it is too late to back out as other workflows etc have been created on the new type structure.

                                I have only managed to figure out a way to view the data in the persistence store (SQL provider), I would like to be…

                                22 votes
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                                  0 comments  ·  Windows Workflow Foundation  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • Add support for comment and TODO metadata for the xaml

                                  Obviously comments have their place and should not be over-used. XAML activities unfortunately have no support for them however. Trying to comment reasoning for a workflow implementation is not possible without using an activity to express it.

                                  Having support for annotations against activities/artifacts in a workflow would prevent executable activities being used for this purpose.

                                  10 votes
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                                    0 comments  ·  Windows Workflow Foundation  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • 5 votes
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                                      1 comment  ·  Windows Workflow Foundation  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • Make resolve TFS conflict (auto merge, etc) faster

                                      When doing get latest and there is a new version of one or more files, it takes time to analyse if there is a conflict, automerge is long too and if it fails, manual merge takes time too. I think it would be great to improve this.

                                      25 votes
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                                        0 comments  ·  Performance  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                      • Add back button to web pages displayed in VS11

                                        When using the Visual Studio UserVoice site, getting to it from VS11 by Help/Report a bug/Suggestions, a web page is shown in a tabbed document. Once you have viewed a particular web page, for example someone else's suggestion, there is no way to get back to the previous page. It looks like we're using a browser, but no "back" button.

                                        BTW, there also seems to be no way to sign in for the suggestions, other than anonymously with an email address. How can you sign in with your Windows Live account?

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                                        • Improve the Performance of TFS in cloud

                                          When i connect to TFS in cloud, using the team explorer, it is very slow. Be it openign the home page(where my work items are loaded etc.) or be it creating shelvesets/code reviews etc., it is very slow when im connecting to TFS in cloud. Hope the performance gets improved.

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