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How do I install a VSIX file in Visual Studio?
If all the above options fail, try installing it from the VS Developer command-line.
Here's how (on StackOverflow):
How to install Visual Studio Gallery extensions from command line
VSIXInstaller....
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Visual Studio - Search through code for Chinese text
Search for Chinese characters using regular expressions in Visual Studio. The regular expression [一-龥] matches any Chinese character.
The regular expression ^.*[一-龥] matches any line containing a ...
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Assign a shortcut for "Next tab" in Visual Studio
In Visual Studio 2019, the command name for next tab and previous tab is Window.NextTab and Window.PreviousTab respectively.
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Visual Studio colors mess up
I had the same issue and I just changed the Color Theme to Blue (Tools > Options > Environment > General > Visual Experience > Color Theme) clicked OK.. then change it back to DARK and all colors went ...
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How can I refresh files that have been changed outside of Visual Studio?
To refresh the change file automatically, we need to change a setting.
Open Visual Studio, choose 'Tools' from menu bar Alt + T.
Go to Options > Environment > Documents. Enable these two options
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Do i need all of those MS SQL server and MS C++ Redistributable?
I doubt those SQL server instances were installed by a video game, but you absolutely need to keep the C++ redistributables.
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Where can I download Visual Studio 2010 Web Express?
VS 2010 is outdated and no longer offered by Microsoft. The most recent version of VS is 2015 and its Community edition replaces Express editions of previous releases. Download and Info
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Is there a way to embed a command prompt into the Visual Studio IDE?
If using NuGet, in Visual Studio click Tools -> NuGet Package Manager -> Package Manager Console
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Visual Studio 2013 error: invalid drive
I had this problem specifically with Agents for Visual Studio 2015. For me it was because the drive used to be in the system but no longer was, due to changing out some drives. The solution in my case ...
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Assign a shortcut for "Next tab" in Visual Studio
In Visual Studio 2022 it is Window.NextDocumentWindow and Window.PreviousDocumentWindow
And if you are using the french version, you have to search :
Fenêtre.tabulationsuivante and Fenêtre....
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How do I use visual studio debugging shortcuts on a Mac?
For anyone using VMware, the same thing can be accomplished by:
From the Menu bar - VMware Fusion >> Preferences
Keyboard & Mouse
Select the Mac Host Shortcuts
Uncheck the Mac OS host Keyboard ...
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'There was an error reading IIS configuration schema from 'C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\schema\' Visual Studio 2010 Windows 8 64-bit
I had accidentally installed Web Deploy 2.0 and I got this error when trying to deploy my webapp. After I installed the latest, Web Deploy 3.6, from the IIS extensions site, the error disappeared on ...
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“Installation Failed” when installing Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1
I’ll just “quote” this answer on Stack Overflow. There are other relevant answers next to it, too.
Too clarify: In your case, there’s an “affected” version of the VC++ 2010 x64 Redistributable ...
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How to locate and install Visual Studio 2010 SP1?
How do I locate and install the service pack?
Recently, I was able to locate older versions of Visual Studio, on the Visual Studio website. It requires a free subscription in order to download.
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How to locate and install Visual Studio 2010 SP1?
I just found it here:
https://archive.org/download/vs-2010-sp-1dvd-1
Microsoft has deleted it everywhere
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Window in window term
What it is called when a window is inside another window, and constrained to the host window?
That will be an example of Windows MDI (Multiple Document Interface):
Frame, Client, and Child Windows
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Remove MySQL for Visual Studio 2.0.5 without VS installation
I now went a simpler way, but not as clean as I wished it to be.
Delete the folder containing the files
Enter registry editor (regedit) and go the path HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products
Now ...
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I have a program (.exe) made in Visual Studio 2019, and want to run it on a computer that doesnt have Visual Studio
I keep getting the error that uctrbased.dll cannot be found and VDRUNTIME140.dll cannot be found.
ucrtbase.dll is installed by downloading and installing the appropriate version of the Windows SDK. ...
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64 bit files in System32
Install the latest Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package x32 then x64 after deleting all previous VC++ versions and files and the problem will be fixed. The .dll is part of this ...
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Migration issue VS 2010 to VS 2015, missing symbol files
Some of VS errors are pretty ambiguous as to the real problem at hand. It seems during debug it was lost on getting the symbol files. The answer was to change the build configuration from (Active x86) ...
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Potentially redundant files?
First off, you don't have to uninstall VS 2010 in order to install VS 2015 (unless you really run out of disk space). Different versions of Visual Studio can all be installed and used side-by-side.
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Is programming in Visual Basic using Visual studio same as Visual studio enterprise?
This seems to be a misunderstanding: there are two different languages (Visual Basic (VB) and VB.NET) as well as different tools (IDEs - Integrated Developer Environments) like Visual Studio 6 for ...
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VS2010 fails to refresh editor view - looks blurred
It is down to bad display drivers designed not to meet expectations of Visual Studio team completely in terms of hardware acceleration.
Read more: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ddperf/archive/2010/09/16/...
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Is there a quick way to delete all shortcuts in Visual Studio 10?
You should be able to create a Macro (or a PowerShell script in 2012+) that makes the changes you want. I don't have a working version of VS 2010 right now to test with, but something like this ...
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Visual Studio 2013 error: invalid drive
METHOD 1:
Temporarily remap the invalid drive.
Determine the letter of the invalid drive that is causing the installation failure.
Choose Start > All Programs > Accessories, right-click Command ...
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How to choose which project is built on F5 in Visual Studio?
Try the SwitchStartupProject extension, as suggested in this question. It adds a drop-down list to your toolbar that lets you switch startup project quicker than using the Solution Explorer.
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How do I fix an “Invalid license data. Reinstall is required.” error in Visual Shell Express (Isolated) 2010?
I experienced this error when attempting to install and run the free Visual Studio 2010 Shell alongside a licensed copy of Visual Studio 2013 Professional.
As described in the thread you mentioned, ...
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Visual Studio Performance problems when writing XAML
In Visual Studio 2015, go to Tools->Options->XAML Designer, and uncheck "Enable XAML Designer"
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Visual Studio Performance problems when writing XAML
Try to disable Resharper in case you have it and/or all other plugins for VS. Determine which one causes the issue and try to reinstall it. This approach has worked for me.
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Visual Studio 2010 replaces the character under the cursor when typing
Double click on OVR text located to the right bottom of visual studio 2010 or 2012 and it will change to INSERT and that should help.
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