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Visual Studio 2017 is Version 15.0 of Microsoft's integrated development environment (IDE) and was released on March 7, 2017.

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How to disable TestResults folder in Visual Studio?

Visual Studio is generating a lot of empty folders in the TestResults subfolder of C# projects. Is there a way to disable it? I often delete more then 5k of them. Deploy_UserName 2017-10-31 18_13_17\ Deploy_UserName 2017-10-31…
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How to auto save work on visual studio 2017?

There are some extensions for auto saving work on other versions of VS but couldn't find anything for VS2017.
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identifier is undefined warning, for functions that already exist in #include

I have a c++ source code that compiles normally in Visual Studio 2017, but strangely, VS 2017 shows in red underlined the names of some functions that I created and left in a #include, accusing as undefined identifier. Well, how it's "undefined" if…
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Visual Studio 2017 not opening

This morning, I made a change to my machine.config file (just changed one of the membershipprovider properties), and I closed out of running VS2017 as Admin, but when I went to open it back up to go back to my solution, it wouldn't open. It will…
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Visual Studio 2017, The operation could not be completed. Unspecified error

A new Visual Studio (version 2017) issue started recently that prevents me from opening ANY files using the File -> Open -> File menu item (or its shortcut Ctrl + O). Error message from Visual Studio: There are plenty of posts on various web…
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How not to automatically build last version on visual studio when you have a compile error?

So, don't know what else to describe, but when I have any compile error and press F5, my visual studio automatically builds the last successfull version, and I would like to at least ask me first if I do wanna do that.
Marcos Vinicius da Silva
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Visual Studio .vs folder does not appear anymore

So I am using visual studio with a big web app, I remember every time I would launch it, there was a .vs folder that would contain an applicationhost.config file in which I would modify the allowedServerVariables property. for some reason, I don't…
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VS 2017 Community Edition Cannot Login to Microsoft

Help! I cannot continue using Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition because every time I Sign in, it just stays on this page:
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Cannot install odt for visual studio 2017. Installation error

I wanted to install odt for visual studio 2017. I downloaded the installer from https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/dotnet/downloads/odacmsidownloadvs2017-3806459.html. The installer starts and after some time, an error pops up saying that the…
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Visual Studio 2017 instrumentation profiling: Error VSP1381: Buffer pool has been exhausted

I am trying to profile a C++ program using Visual Studio 2017. I get the error below: Visual Studio 2017 instrumentation profiling: Error VSP1381: Buffer pool has been exhausted. Profiling data will be ignored until VSPerfMon.exe is shutdown or a…
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Visual Studio became failed to support dwproj files

Encounered a problem with exisiting multidimesional project. After opening it in VS2017 (native for it), the project became incompatible... Messsage in solution explorer: application not installed. Checked UpgradeLog2.htm: The application which…
Andrei Vasilev
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Visual Studio 2017 (TE) - FileNotFoundException:Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Common

The following FileNotFoundException was thrown by opening "STEPS" and "ASSOCIATED AUTOMATION" tabs of a "Test Case" work item type in Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Test Edition: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly …
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how to change location of visual studio folder 2017 that is created automatically while creating a project

I am trying to change folder name "Visual Studio 2017" that is created automatically whenever i try to open a new windows application. I've read all the answers related to How to change "Visual Studio 2017" folder location? method that is discussed…
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Missing preferences on Visual Studio

My preferences page in Visual Studio is missing. It is meant to be under file but it just isn't there. I have been trying to change my code theme but ran into the issue of not being able to find the preference page. I have the latest version of…
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Can't get Visual Studio to allow me to debug, only "Attach"

When I am trying to run a program in Visual Studio, I do not have the option to debug the program. I only have the option to "Attach". I have looked up other solutions to this problem but I do not have anything to solve the problem. I will be…
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