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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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Get "Internal error in the expression evaluator" on "Add watch" function when trying to debug WCF service code (MSVS 2013)

Few days ago I moved my solution to MSVS 2013. It works fine except one thing: when I trying to debug code of my WCF service it works, but when I want to watch state of any variable it says: "Internal error in the expression evaluator". Add watch…
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Upgrade Visual Studio 2013 solutions to Visual Studio 2015

I have installed both Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015. Projects and solutions that were created in VS2013 are opened by VS2013 as I would expect, but I would like to be able to upgrade those files so that they would be opened by VS2015…
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Can you turn off Peek Definition in Visual Studio 2013 and up?

In Visual Studio 2013 and up, there is the Peek Definition feature when you Ctrl + Click. At first I thought this was cool, but I have found that the majority of the time, I need to click the Promote to Document button, since I make lots of changes…
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Dependency Walker: missing dlls

I have been trying to resolve .dll dependencies for the executable file with Dependency Walker. Currently, I am getting missing .dlls in the following form: API-MS-WIN-XXX EXT-MS-WIN-XXX For…
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Visual Studio 2013 hangs when opening a solution

I installed VS2013 (v12.0.21005.1) and added ReSharper 8 (v8.0.2000.2660) a day or two ago. That day it was fine. Now I'm lucky if I can get it to open one solution in a whole day. It opens OK by itself, but when I try and open a solution from…
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"Has invalid child element" warnings in Microsoft.Common.Targets while building

In my VS2010, when I build my solution, I have over 100 warnings in the file Microsoft.Common.Targets. When I try to build, publish or run my programs, I get just the warnings, but the moment I double click it to get more info, the…
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Authentication issue when debugging in VS2013 - iis express

I'm trying to pick up the windows username when debugging in Visual Studio 2013. I am simply using: httpcontext.current.user.identity.name If I run this on my Dev Server it works fine, if I run it in debug mode on any previous version of Visual…
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Force uninstall of Visual Studio

While uninstalling Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2015 Preview, it throws an error quoting "Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2015 Preview has stopped working" Message Content Include: A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.…
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How to force a Solution file (SLN) to be opened in Visual Studio 2013?

Trying to open a VS 2012 solution (SLN file) explicitly in VS 2013 succeeds. Simply double-clicking it in Windows Explorer still opens it in VS 2012 instead. I've read "Visual Studio 2012 doesn't convert vs2010 solution?" and followed the suggestion…
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Find Results not displaying Results

Today my Find Results feature of Visual Studio 2012 stopped working. The Find Results windows displays summary information, but not the actual lines matched. This is all my Find Results window displays: Find all "mytext", Subfolders, Find Results 1,…
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How do I add BundleConfig.cs to my project?

I have an ASP.Net MVC project and I want to implement bundling, but everything I can find on the internet directs me to open BundleConfig.cs in App_Start - however this file does not exist in my project. I have only three files in that folder:…
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Visual Studio breakpoints not being hit

I'm working with an ASP.NET MVC project that seems to be having some issues when attaching to the IIS process (w3wp.exe). I'm running the solution and IIS 8.5 on my own local machine so I wouldn't think that this has anything to do with our network.…
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Visual Studio 2013 git, only Master branch listed

I'm using Visual Studio 2013's Git support to work on a private GitHub repository. I have permission to commit to it. I want to switch branches, but when I go to the Branches view, the only branch in any of the lists (branch drop-down, published…
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VS2013 permanent CPU usage even though in idle mode

I've recently updated VS2013 to Update 1 and since then VS takes CPU usage to 25% (on a 4 cores intel i5 cpu) permanently even though it's supposed to be idle. I thought it has some unfinished background processes so I left it running for a while…
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How can I fix assembly version conflicts with JSON.NET after updating NuGet package references in a new ASP.NET MVC 5 project?

I created a new ASP.NET MVC 5 web project in VS 2013 (Update 1) then updated all NuGet packages. When I build the project, I get the following warning: warning MSB3243: No way to resolve conflict between "Newtonsoft.Json, Version=6.0.0.0, …
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