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 ...
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Programming productivity: How to hide cursor while typing
Whenever I click somewhere to type some code, by definition that's exactly where my mouse cursor is, which is obscuring what I'm trying to type. Often, if I forget to move the cursor away before ...
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Visual studio debugger is slow / terminates when expanding watch on a container/list etc
I'm afraid to say I can't figure this one out, but my VS2008 appears sick. Any time I navigate to a particular view in my app, VS will hold for roughly 60 seconds on "Symbol loading Windows/.../*.dll" ...
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Stop crashing program from automatically restarting
I'm running Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 2008 Server R2. It often crashes when I quit. Once Windows has checked for problems the app then automatically restarts which is not what I want, when I'm ...
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Printing from Visual Studio
How do you skip the info about where the file are on every page when you print from within Visual Studio?
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Building a fast Visual Studio machine
I want to build a PC to run Visual Studio very quickly. I have about 30 C# projects that include WCF services, IIS web services. So for me, quickly means fast edit, compile, run and debug cycles.
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Is there any way to run remote debugger on Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition?
I've searched the web for answers, but the only thing I can come up with is that I need the Pro or Team edition to be able to run remote debugger. Is that true? Is there a way around it or another way ...
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Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 is stuck during download. What gives?
I'm trying to download the software on Windows 7 RC, but it's stuck:
How can I fix this?
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Is Visual Studio 2008 a 32Bit Application?
Is the Visual Studio Application 32Bit , and thus can only address max 4GB ram?
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What is the Visual Studio virtual machine that Joel and Jeff were referring to?
I am new to this so couldn't really grasp what Joel and Jeff were talking about in one of their recent Stack Overflow podcasts. I recall Joel referring to Visual Studio doing all sorts of things with ...
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Windows Visual C++ in OSX?
I'm trying to use Windows Visual C++ Express Edition 2008 in OSX with Wine, but X11 tells me that it was unable to find a volume for extraction and to verify my permissions, which are read and write. ...
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Issues installing Visual Studio 2005 SP1 in Windows 7 RC
When I try to install Visual Studio 2005 SP1 in Windows 7 RC my machine freezes or blue screens half way through. Has anyone else had this issue? If so, did you solve it?
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Why does installing Visual Studio 2010 beta require a restart?
Why does Visual Studio 2010 require installation with MSI and reboot just in order to make it work, where Eclipse, which is based on similar architecture (JVM instead of the CLR) requires just pasting ...
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Which PC components make the biggest impact on your compile times for Visual Studio?
Which PC specifications have the biggest impact on your compile times? Disk? Clock speed? Number of CPU cores?
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Visual Studio 2010 crashes every 2 minutes on windows 7 RC
I'm running visual studio 2010 on windows 7 RC, and it crashed almost anytime I hit F5 to start the application.
also when using the XAML WPF editor, if I don't hold and wait for it more than 30 ...
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Can't run setup.exe for MSDN that comes with VS2008
I just had to replace my hard drive, and am reloading all applications. It's got XP with all current patches, and VS2005 already installed, including the MSDN that came with it.
VS2008 installed ...
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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 :)
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Speed of TrueCrypt whole disk encryption
I'm getting a new development laptop soon, and I'm thinking of using TrueCrypt to encrypt the whole disk.
What kind of performance drop can I expect? 10%? 30%? More? Also, assuming the workload has ...
