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Visual Studio 2013 is a version of Microsoft's Visual Studio (also known as "Dev12", includes C++ compiler version 18.0). Do not use this tag unless you have a specific question about Visual Studio -- not just a coding issue.

The version of which follows , and is the predecessor to .

The preview for Visual Studio 2013 was announced at the Build 2013 conference and made available on June 26, 2013. It was made available to download on October 17, 2013.

Update 1 (Visual Studio 2013.1) was released on January 20, 2014.
Update 2 (Visual Studio 2013.2) was released on May 12, 2014.

Since May 22, 2014 the first CTP of Update 3 is available.
Since November 12, 2014 Update 4 RTM is available.
Since December 15, 2014 Update 5 CTP 1 is available.

Features:

  • .NET 4.5.1 support.
  • x86-64 Edit And Continue support.
  • Definition Peek.
  • Scrollbar improvements.
  • More...

What's new:

Community Edition:

Visual Studio Community 2013 is a new edition released at November 12, 2014. It includes all functionality of Visual Studio Professional 2013, designed and optimized for individual developers, students, open source contributors, and small teams.

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Why does intellisense and code suggestion stop working when Visual Studio is open?

I have been having issues with Intellisense in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. I will be working in a project, editing code and whatnot (after a period of time, anywhere from 5 minutes to over an hour) and all of a sudden, no more code suggestions or…
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How do I re-open the Visual Studio Immediate Window?

I accidentally closed the Immediate Window in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, and can't for the life of me figure out how/where to get it back. Can someone please point out how I get the Immediate Window open again?
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How do I open an old MVC project in Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2013?

I have an old ASP.NET MVC 2 project which I do not want to upgrade to MVC 3 or MVC 4. I am working on a new machine running Windows 8, Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013. When I try to open the MVC 2 project in VS 2012 or VS 2013 I receive…
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Where is the "Create Unit Tests" selection?

I have installed the new Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate. I have created a Test Project with my solution and it contains some default unit tests. However right clicking on new Methods doesn't show the "Create Unit Tests" context menu any longer. See…
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Source unreachable when using the NuGet Package Manager Console

We are moving our package management from manually updating files to NuGet. I am trying to install older versions of packages to match the one we already have in source control. There is no way to do this from the UI so I use the command line to get…
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Visual Studio 2013 doesn't discover unit tests

I have a simple solution in visual studio 2013 that is composed by one web project, one library project and one unit test project. When I open the solution and try to run the unit tests they are not discover by visual studio. To run the tests I try…
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Why and how to fix? IIS Express "The specified port is in use"

We know a random port number is assigned to a web application in Visual Studio. It works fine in my office desktop. But when I pull the code onto my laptop (from VisualStudio.com) and run the web app. I got a message, saying, The specified port is…
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Visual Studio 2013 and BitBucket

Visual Studio 2013 apparently has some nice slick Git integration. However, after an hour of head-scratching with absolutely nothing making even the slightest bit of sense, I've only been able to create a local repository and despite cloning a…
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Visual Studio 2013 IntelliSense stops working for ASP.NET MVC5 Controllers

I am facing a weird problem in my Visual Studio 2013 ASP.NET MVC 5 project. All of a sudden, the IntelliSense in the Controller classes of the MVC 5 project are not working at all. I have other class library projects in my solution and IntelliSense…
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Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 - How to Stop Annoying Notifications

Just installed Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and now I see this annoying red notification telling me I need a developer licence for Windows Store and Windows Phone - which I do not need. Once I click dismiss all, it comes back next time I load Visual…
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Unable to authenticate with Git Bash to Visual Studio Team Services

I am unable to run any commands against my remote repository at Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) because authentication fails. I am able to do pulls, etc. through Visual Studio. But only through Visual Studio. Not through Git Bash, or any other…
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How do I uninstall *all* nuget packages from a solution in Visual Studio

I know I can uninstall-package from the PM console. I got into some dependency issues with another project and I want to start over, and I need to delete all packages in one shot. Is there a way?
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How can you disable Git integration in Visual Studio 2013 permanently?

I know that you can disable git integration by using the Tools / Options dialog, but what I've noticed is that this setting doesn't seem to persist across sessions; i.e., as soon as close and reopen the solution, Git integration is enabled again.…
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Visual Studio 2013 Missing Convert To Web Application

I am managing an old web application which still has legacy code from Framework 1 (would you believe it), currently on Framework 4.0. As and when I need to fix or upgrade a web page, I convert it to a web application web page by clicking "Convert to…
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How can I turn off Visual Studio 2013 Preview?

When I want to search files I use Ctrl+,. The search box pops up and then I start typing. But the built-in preview just grabs whatever I have typed and opens the file. Even though I am still typing. I am trying to open a file called report_vaccine,…
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