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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.exe ...
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Assign a shortcut for "Next tab" in Visual Studio
Indeed, Window.NextTab and Window.PreviousTab can be used in Keyboard Shortcuts to switch between tabs in the order displayed (while Window.PreviousDocumentWindow does not respect that order).
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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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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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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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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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Backspace and arrow keys not working as expected
Try to reset your keyboard's settings. You can do it like this:
Go to Tools => Options => Environment.
Click on the Keyboard option.
Click on the Reset button from right panel.
Here is an ...
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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS) Service cannot start. It's referring to a file that doesn't exist
Please, try to rebuild the system databases running the following on a CMD prompt:
Change directories to the location of the setup.exe file. The default location on your computer should be something ...
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Visual Studio 2017 Community verson 15.9.12 Publish results lacks necessary dlls
I recently suffered something similar but not so severe...for some reason, I had excluded some files from the project and then I forgot to re-include them. Check Solution Explorer...see if those are ...
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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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How to make Visual Studio 2010 highlight identical, selected words in editor ?
People Looking for visual studio 2015:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PaulCzywczynski.Highlightalloccurrencesofselectedword
It's a modified version of Nicholas Sha's plugin by ...
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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 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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Uninstalling VisualSVN 2.0 from Visual Studio 2010
You can uninstall it by running the installer from VisualSVN again, and selecting the remove option.
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How do I install a VSIX file in Visual Studio?
When I double-click on vsix file, I get an error "The requested operation requires elevation". As a result,
I opened cmd as administrator and navigated to the target folder.
Type the vsix file name ...
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