184
votes
Accepted
How to open .dbml in designer mode with VS?
Quit devenv
Launch Visual Studio Installer
Modify VS2017
Click on the Individual components tab and scroll down to LINQ to SQL tools (within Code tools group.)
Click Modify.
Launch devenv again and ...
- 2,129
82
votes
Accepted
Can I install the Custom Document Well (vertical tabs) extension for Visual Studio 2019?
Update #2
Vertical tabs are out of preview and are now officially part of Visual Studio 2019 v16.4!
Update #1
The new "Vertical Document Tabs" feature is part of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 ...
- 2,881
14
votes
Can I install the Custom Document Well (vertical tabs) extension for Visual Studio 2019?
For this workaround to work with VS 16.1, just click "Allow synchronous autoload" in the warning banner and restart VS.
It will allow the use of the deprecated sync APIs... until the feature comes ...
- 176
10
votes
Visual Studio 2019 Web Site Template
To create "ASP.NET Web Site" projects in Visual Studio 2019 you need to install the "Additional project templates (previous versions)" ASP.NET Component as shown below. This can be ...
- 376
8
votes
Accepted
Visual Studio 2019 keeps asking to re-enter credentials for Azure DevOps
Try this:
in order to reduce the reauthentication, you can try to enable “System
web browser” under Tools > Options > Environment > Accounts > Add and
reauthenticate accounts using: ...
- 196
7
votes
Can I install the Custom Document Well (vertical tabs) extension for Visual Studio 2019?
In addition to Andrew Keeto's answer:
After step 4, in extension.vsixmanifest in the section Add:
<InstallationTarget Version="[15.0,)" Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Pro" />
<...
- 171
5
votes
Can I install the Custom Document Well (vertical tabs) extension for Visual Studio 2019?
This answer is a copy of @Sergey-Vlasov 's comment. Go to his website and follow the instructions.
You can download a ready to use Custom Document Well installer for VS 2019 with these changes ...
- 233
4
votes
Accepted
Is it possible for VS 2019 to use more than 4GB RAM?
tl;dr: Yes, more memory will definitely help. A modern Windows development system should have at least 24 GiB of RAM.
Visual Studio has long since been split into multiple processes. That means it ...
- 60.7k
3
votes
Accepted
Visual studio install offline installer with no network
OK i managed to solve this issue.
I first needed to install the certificates to the local machine either from the certificates folder which is inside the layout folder or by right clicking the setup....
- 161
3
votes
Accepted
XML Schema Explorer is not working
This was a bug that has been fixed as per:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/657389/xml-schema-explorer-does-not-work.html
Just update your Visual Studio 2019 to the latest ...
- 146
3
votes
Accepted
Visual Studio 2017/2019 Installation finished with errors - Couldn't install Microsoft.VisualC.Redist.12
After multiple experiments mentioned above this is what worked in my case.
Steps to follow after the Visual Studio Installation fails with a warning:
Download the latest Visual C++ 2013 ...
- 161
3
votes
Accepted
How to always use single line comments in Visual Studio?
This is in Visual Studio 2019.
To use a multi-line comment (/*...*/), select the block without the spaces
before first selected line. See the following image where the four spaces before
line number ...
- 10.9k
3
votes
Visual Studio 2019 Web Site Template
One way to do this is to select File --> Open --> Web Site from Visual Studio.
Click on File System.
Select your target folder or click on the Create New Folder icon and name it as you prefer.
This ...
- 31
3
votes
Accepted
No option to enable preview released of .NET Core
I have repaired Visual Studio, uninstall/install, and for some reason, I have no option to enable preview releases. I'm hoping that this will also solve my TFS build issue since my machine is a build ...
- 42k
2
votes
Accepted
How to enable 8.0 preview in Visual Studio build 16.1
if I used an 8.0 feature the lightbulb would allow me to enable the previews.
You can only use the lightbulb within Visual Studio on Preview Visual Studio builds. Release builds like 16.1 doesn't ...
- 42k
2
votes
Hacking Intel C++ compiler 2018 to work with VS 2019?
Microsoft says in the article
CMakeSettings.json:
The cmakesettings.json file contains information that specifies how Visual Studio should interact with CMake to build a project for a specified ...
- 459k
2
votes
Intel Fortran not working with MS Visual Studio 2017
Uh... Ok so this is kinda embarrassing... I just figured it out, I simply pressed "start without debugging" and everything worked fine!
- 29
2
votes
Is there any way to disable UAC prompts for just one program?
If you run devenv.exe from an elevated command prompt it will open without UAC.
The other way is to make a scheduled task that runs elevated with no schedule. Then you can run the task manually to ...
- 4,594
2
votes
developing a CLI C# application without installing 16GB of Visual Studio?
Download .net framework(Developer pack ~105MB) from here and Install it.
Installed files would include msbuilld.exe. You can use this msbuild to build your .net project via CLI.
Below is one example.
...
- 151
1
vote
Accepted
VisualStudio IntelliSense/Resharper C++ doesn't work for .mm files
You need to tell Visual Studio that those .mm files are in fact C++.
Go to menu Tools > Options > Text Editor > File Extension and add your extension
and restart Visual Studio:
- 459k
1
vote
How to find out the download size of Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition?
Visual Studio 2019 doesn't have a
developer edition. The editions are Community, Professional and Enterprise.
I assume you are asking about the free Community edition.
All Visual Studio versions ...
- 459k
1
vote
Accepted
Visual Studio 2019 is performing very slowly in tasks
The slow-down was fixed by starting Visual Studio in
safe mode,
via devenv /safemode.
This means that some installed extension has become troublesome and needs
to be uninstalled. You will need to find ...
- 459k
1
vote
developing a CLI C# application without installing 16GB of Visual Studio?
Perhaps consider just installing the .NET runtime and using VSCode. VSCode requires .NET runtime anyway, so you'd be killing 2 birds with 1 stone.
VSCode is only ~200MB footprint on your disk, and you ...
- 11
1
vote
developing a CLI C# application without installing 16GB of Visual Studio?
The dotnet SDK (or dotnet core) should allow you to run and build applications from CLI and is lighter than Visual Studio. You can download it here : https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/5.0
...
- 11
1
vote
Visual Studio 2019 Community has a trial extension license
There is only one Visual Studio installer. It installs all free and paid editions of Visual Studio. (Though it is preconfigured to launch the setup for a specific edition.)
You will have to install ...
- 60.7k
1
vote
Accepted
Can't start an Intel Visual Fortran Project
Then it has a long paragraph saying that Intel C++ compiler requires Microsoft visual studio 2017 or 2019 WHICH I HAVE INSTALLED.
You might have Visual Studio 2019 installed but the required ...
- 42k
1
vote
Accepted
How to open containing folder of a file in Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2019
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/131057/Use-Shortcut-or-Context-Menu-for-Open-Containing-F - via design context menu
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DavidRoller....
1
vote
Accepted
Visual Studio Error: "Cannot resolve 'GenXbf.dll' under path...Please install the latest version of the Windows 10 Software Development Kit"
I would like to know what the source of this error is, as I have already tried manually updating the SDK?
The error is caused by your Windows SDK installation being corrupt and/or incomplete. Based ...
- 42k
1
vote
Accepted
Cannot install ReSharper Ultimate Extensions (Exceptional) in Visual Studio 2019 and 2017
Can you give me any hints on how I can install this extension?
The extension has not been updated to support ReSharper 2019.2.2 based on the last update it only supports versions before and including ...
- 42k
1
vote
Accepted
Visual Studio installation progress drops after resuming download
Visual Studio 2019 does not have an offline installation that you can download
in segments. Its normal installation mode is to download and install everything
at once.
I suggest to try and create an ...
- 459k
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible