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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devenv.com hangs in VS 2013

When calling devenv.com from command line or FinalBuilder action within our automated build it sometimes hangs and never gets past compiling step. It is called with this parameters from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio…
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VS 2013 the breakpoint will not currently be hit. no symbols have been loaded for this document

VS2013, windows 8.1, windows phone 8 c# app Breakpoints not working and i got the breakpoint will not currently be hit. no symbols have been loaded for this document error what i need to do?
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ASP MVC 5 project 'New Scaffolded Item...' is missing from the context menu

This is not a duplicate. See my comments, and also see my additional diag. results edit Now it is became more weird. Next morning I've opened my VS and this project, and Scaffolding menu items were there. Used them for a few times, then it…
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Visual Studio window with several tabs - howto make tab icons visible?

Is there any way to make windows tab icons always visible? When window is not pinned, or big enough to display text, it looks like this: Icons appears only when we make this window too small to fit text on tabs: Is there any registry hack or…
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Coded UI Test - Windows - Universal Apps

I am trying to automated testing of windows apps using coded-ui-test project using vs2013 ultimate edition. I can see those templates for C# desktop applications under test category and for phone application under windows phone category. I cannot…
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Visual Studio Unexpectedly Adding Feature on Load

I have a SharePoint 2010 solution in Visual Studio 2013. Every time I close and reopen Visual Studio, a new feature is added to the solution with one list inside it. The list was removed from another feature that it should be in. It is always the…
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TFS, unable to check-in solution, accordionlist.gif: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

I have to add my solution to TFS, in Visual Studio 2013, when I click on Check-In button in Team Explorer window, I get this error message: C:\Projects\2013\MyCompany.MySolution\MyProject\adminpages\images\someimage.gif: The process cannot access…
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How to programatically clean output in Visual Studio 2013

I print output on the console in WPF and ASP.NET-MVC applications by: System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("text"); how to programatically clear the output window?
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COM object created by CComObject::CreateInstance not destroyed when pointer goes out of scope

Using smart pointer CComObject I create a COM object by calling its static method CreateInstance. But when I leave my program, at least in VS13, that object remains running. Here is my code: CComObject< CMyAtlObject > * myAtlCOMObject =…
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Porting Visual Studio VSPackage to SSMS 2012 or 2014

I recently discovered an extension for visual studio that allows you to specify a watermark for the code window. This extension can be found on github here. https://github.com/nategreenwood/VSEditorBackgroundChangerExtension As part of a small…
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Visual Studio 2013 CLR Stored Procedures

I have been working with earlier versions of Visual Studio (VS2008) in conjunction with SQL Server 2008. Recently my organization moved to VS2013 and SQL Server 2012. I am finding the database interfaces in VS2013 quite a bit different than what…
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How to set CheckedListBox items to checked by default

Is there an option in Visual Studio to set all items in a CheckedListBox to checked by default? By this I mean I would like all items to be checked upon start up, and the user can unselect items as needed. If not, is my only option to set all items…
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Visual Studio Post Build copy command error MSB3073 exit code 1

So I have C++ Player project which has 2 other project dependencies, both of which have post build events to copy the dll to another folder. The project was building, then it decided not to work randomly, and since then I have not found a solution.…
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Why does VC++2013 refuse to compile nested types, made visibile with the using keyword, when used as a template functions return type?

Visual Studio 2013 (update 2) throws a compile-time error when compiling a template function who's return type is a nested type name, which has been hidden through multiple inheritance, and made visible again with the using keyword; as in the…
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How possibly did IntelliTrace become available on my Visual Studio Professional installation?

As described in some other Q/As like this and this, IntelliTrace is a Visual Studio Ultimate feature only. But for some reason I have Visual Studio Professional 2013 (Version 12.0.30723.00 Update 3) and I have IntelliTrace on it. I don't know how it…
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