Questions tagged [visual-studio-2013]

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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WIX Installer - Unable to change and save the platform to 64 bit

IDE:- VS.NET 2013 (Update 2) WIX version used : 3.9 Windows service MSI :- I am unable to change the platform to x64 bit and save it. If i change it to x64 option and save the build properties and close the property window, then reopen the…
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Adding SQL Server Compact Edition data source to Visual Studio?

I want to add a SQL Server Compact edition in my project in Visual Studio 2013.4, but I don't have the data source in my list: Also, I don't have System.Data.Sqlce in my assemblies. How can I add SQL Server Compact data source to my Visual Studio?
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What is a viable method of spacing out text in visual studio

We are attempting to expand text in Visual Studio. Our current attempt consists of creating transparent intraline adornments at certain points in the text. We have just stumbled upon a disadvantage to this method. Namely that when the given text has…
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visual studio find and replace has default file types

Does anyone know how to remove the default "Look at these file types:" in Find and Replace? In my VS, whenever the rare occasion I tell VS to look in just *.cs, or just *.less, when I open Find and Replace, it prepopulates it with the last one I…
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Visual Studio intellisense icon meaning

What does mean following IntelliSense icon in VS2013: Is there any reference for these type icons in VS2013?
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EF6 DbContext IOC Dependency

I am using EF6 in Windows Service / Console Application. I have successfully implemented IOC/DI for my Business layer interfaces and implementation. Using Constructor Injection. Also I am using Object Database, Task Parallel Library. for better…
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Visual Studio adds a number to the project name in solution explorer

I have a solution file with a bunch of projects inside it. One of the projects is a Web Site Project. I was going to upgrade from VS2012 to VS2013, and simply opened the .sln file in VS2013. It does work, but for some reason VS renames the project…
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Extract all obj files from a lib

How can I extract all .obj files from a .lib file? The only way I found is to extract one at once. Is there a way to automate it? LIB.EXE /EXTRACT:member.obj Library.LIB
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Azure SDK for .NET (VS2013) 2.5 requires Visual Studio 2013 update 3 or later

I wanted to install Azure 2.5 SDK for VS 2013 and that required updating VS 2013 to Update 3 or later. Update 4 was the recommended one so I installed it. Azure 2.5 SDK installation still broke at the same spot. When I checked about dialog in VS…
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Pressing + in Visual Studio editor writes single ASCII character

I am using VS2013 as my IDE and ever since I installed it acts very oddly when pressing ALT and any of the ARROW keys. I use ALT+LEFT and ALT+RIGHT to navigate backward/forward which works in principal but once VS completes the jump it writes out a…
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VS 2013 Find All References Not Working in cshtml Pages

I have a Web Pages (Razor) c# app and I have moved it to VS 2013 Community Edition Update 4 Previously, when I wanted to see where a variable or function was used/references, I used the "Find ALl References" tool (Shift + F12) and I would get a list…
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MSBuild is failing inconsistently when performing a TFS build (usually error C1093 / Not enough Storage)

I have a really odd and hard to diagnose issue with MSBuild / TFS. I have a solution that contains about 12 different build configurations. When running on the build server, it takes maybe 30mins to build the lot and has worked fine for weeks now…
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Visual Studio extension conflict when removing a project

After I save the changes of a solution and then remove an existing project, I'll get the following error message: The operation could be completed. Not implemented. Then I launched devenv.exe /Log and able to reproduce the problem and the errors…
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Move Visual Studio cursor to the end of opening HTML tag

Visual studio will automatically complete a
for you when you finish the tag's >. This places the cursor in between the opening and closing tag like this:
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(where the | is your cursor) However, when you add a class (or other html…
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Why am I getting "Unable to load DLL 'sqlite3'" in my WPF app?

I added what I thought were the necessary SQLite (and sqlite-net) packages to my app. On running it, though, I get an exception: System.DllNotFoundException was unhandled by user code HResult=-2146233052 Message=Unable to load DLL 'sqlite3': The…