Hints and tips for using Microsoft’s IDE, Visual Studio.
You can turn this feature on and off by going to Tools > Options in Visual Studio. Navigate to the “Projects and Solutions” node and tick/untick the “Track Active Item in Solution Explorer” check-box.
Sachi Williams explains how to do this on Northwest Cadence’s blog. I have outlined the basic steps below: Clone the VSO Git repo into Visual Studio. Add the GitHub (or any other Git repo) as a remote for the new one: git remote add GitHub [Your GitHub repo]. Pull from GitHub: git pull GitHub master. … More Migrate GitHub to VisualStudio.com Git
If using IIS Express (the default for debugging web applications in Visual Studio), you can use domains other than localhost but its not particularly intuitive.
This MSDN How-To may help with repeating headers on multiple pages in Reporting Services.
In VS2012, my Report Data window keeps closing itself and I can never find it in the menus. However, as matthew-360 points out on StackOverflow, the keyboard shortcut to open the window is CTRL+ALT+D.
This Visual Studio add-in is a life saver! It lets you set up automatic shelving every x minutes with a customisable name. For 2012 For 2010
You can download the Subscription Publish Settings using the new Azure Management Portal from the following link (latest version): https://manage.windowsazure.com/publishsettings/index Version 1 https://windows.azure.com/download/publishprofile.aspx OR https://manage.windowsazure.com/publishsettings/Index?client=vs&SchemaVersion=1.0
I’m not sure I know of anyone ever deliberately clicking the “Run last successful build” button is Visual Studio! It’s quite annoying though if you accidently/unknowingly click it. Fortunately, you can turn it off (or back on)!
VS 2012+ (Found on Update 3) Much simpler than previously, all you have to do is in the ‘Pending Changes’ window, click ‘Actions’ then ‘Find Shelvesets’. Pre-2012 This always throws me. It’s so simple to shelve changes – its basically the same as checking in changesets. But getting a shelveset is a little different to … More Downloading a Shelveset from TFS
(Windows 8) Create a shortcut in C:Users{YOUR USER}AppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuPrograms for Visual Studio (C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0Common7IDEdevenv.exe in my case). Call it “Visual Studio (Admin)” or similar. Right click the shortcut, select Properties. In the Shortcut tab click Advanced and check ‘Run as administrator’. Go to the start menu and search for “Visual Studio … More Always Start Visual Studio as Administrator
