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Visual Studio is Microsoft's IDE (integrated development environment) offering for developing on its platforms, such as Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox. Out of the box, it supports C++, C#, VB.NET and F# for programming, as well as XML/XSLT, HTML, CSS and JavaScript for web development. Many other languages are available separately.

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Prompt if I really want to close visual studio?

Anyone know if I can have visual studio prompt me if I really want to close it (I believe Eclipse prompts before closing)? Or some other way of stopping it from closing when I hit the "X". Thanks EDIT: To clarifybasically I wanted this b/c I have…
the empirical programmer
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Visual studio 2015 codelens packages?

I know in VS2013 CodeLens was only available on Ultimate. I've been using the 2015 preview and I'm wondering about the availability of CodeLens once the product is officially released. Has there been any info released about whether or not CodeLens…
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Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Hangs with "Waiting for Operation to Complete" Message

I am experiencing an issue with Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 hanging with a "Waiting for Operation to Complete" message whenever I launch it. This dialog appears every time I launch Visual Studio and never disappears. As of the writing of this post,…
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Visual Studio 2019 - An error occurred while initializing the frame's content

In Visual Studio 2019 16.6, I tried opening a TSQL file but get this error An error occurred while initializing the frame's content System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at…
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Using 64bit Windows, how much RAM is sensible for running VisualStudio?

I am probably going to migrate my work laptop (WinXP, ThinkPad T61) to Windows7 soon, and want to take the opportunity to upgrade to a 64bit OS and use the infinite amounts of RAM this will allow :) Given that laptop RAM not free, how much RAM would…
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Visual Studio 2015 Installation Problems

I am having major problems with installing Visual Studio 2015 that I have been dealing with since its release on Monday. I uninstalled Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate and installed Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise and this happened: The installation has…
DaveTheMinion
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How to add back '"Microsoft Foundation Classes for C++' in Visual Studio

I have installed Visual Studio 2013 on my desktop. But when I install it, I don't have 'Microsoft Foundation Classes for C++' checked when I installed. How can I add that library/functionalities back without uninstall VS and re-install it…
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Where can I download Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools?

A program I am installing requires Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools. However, I am unable to find these anywhere. The link they provided 404s. So I tried googling it. The top result:…
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Visual Studio .NET 2003 on Windows 7 hangs on search

So I have Visual Studio 2003 running on Windows 7 - yeah I am aware it isn't officially supported - and no, unfortunately I can't change that situation :-( For the most part it works OK but I have a specific problem, that I can't figure out. The…
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'Create Unit Test' Command in VS2017

I can't find the "Create Unit Test" command in the context menu anymore. Did they remove it from VS2017?
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Visual Studio 2022 Stuck in Authorization Loop

I have a solution in Visual Studio 2022 that continually asks me to re-authorize my Microsoft account in a loop, which seems like it is once per project in the solution. This happens if I want to do anything with source control (the project is in…
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How to remove the space on left side of the editor in visual studio

I'm using Visual Studio Community 2022. I want to conserve the space on the left in the editor shown in this screen shot: More generic question is how to customise the chrome of Visual Studio Community edition. I'm ok with editing the source code…
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Installing Visual Studio without restart

I would like to install Visual Studio (Community edition) on a server that is used by other individuals. The installation requires a restart to complete the process. Is there any way to complete the necessary steps manually without restarting the…
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"Edit Top 200 Rows" SQL Pane equivalent in SQL Server Data Tools "View Data"

I've always used Edit Top 200 Rows and then edited the query in the SQL pane of SQL Server 2008 Management Studio to find the rows I want to edit data for. Now I have the tools inside Visual Studio 2012. I want to be able to change the query after…
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What happened to Debug test in current context (Ctrl+R, Ctrl+T) in VS2012?

One of the hot-keys I used most in Visual Studio 2010 was Ctrl+R, Ctrl+T, which ran the unit test the cursor currently was on in debug mode. I think the command is named "Debug tests in current context". Now, you still have a command named…
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