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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Possible to include an image in the meta data in code? VS 2013

I would like to be able to include a screenshot of a control inside my code, this way making control identification easier for new members on my team, is such a thing possible? Maybe even the ability to just have the image on a network share with…
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VS2013 - How to pass the solution folder, $(SolutionDir), in the command line arguments for a C# project using an external program

I am building a C# adding for Excel. In order to debug it, I need to launch Excel.exe with a command line argument containing the Debug or Release path to the addin. For example: Start External Program: C:\Program Files\Microsoft…
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Disable auto Friendly URLs in a Web Form project

I created a C# web form project in Visual Studio 2013. When I run my sample.aspx page, the page automatically uses the /sample friendly URL routing. I want to handle the routing myself manually and not let .NET to do it automatically. How can I…
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Visual Studio 2013 Windows Phone Emulator not deploying

I am using VS 2013 express and i have a Windows Phone 8 simple app. When i start debugging the App using any Emulator it fails to deploy the XAP into the emulator. AFter 10 minutes an error message shows up "There were depoyment errors.…
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Using a docked old style Pending Changes window with Visual Studio 2013

This is a follow up question for this question: VS2012 return to a normal TFS checkin window? I've used the solution of creating a new command which was added to the Tools menu, but using this option opens the Pending Changes window as a new process…
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The Git client in Visual Studio 2013 is "offline"

Visual Studio says that git is offline. Not just one git repo, but git itself. The option to connect to a new repo is gone and any existing projects will be opened in offline mode even when they are on the local machine.
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How to use nodemon in NTVS(Node Tools for Visual Studio)

I was working with Node on Visual Studio Professional 13, and I soon realized that restarting my server for every change in code was becoming a hassle. So I did some research and discovered that most people used the nodemon to automatically…
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How to run build tasks with Node.js tools for Visual Studio

I'm trying to run this jar to serve my JavaScript code for my node application every time the user runs the project. I've tried editing the .njsproj file to include my custom build task (see below) but I think I've reached the opinion that the…
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Visual Studio - black line at the bottom in portrait mode

I have a problem with a black line appearing at the bottom of Visual Studio. This happens only if I move the window to my monitor which is in portrait mode and only for VS. It doesn't appear for any other program. In VS2010 it's not such a big…
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Compile Python debug and pip install debug libraries

I am trying to debug some mysterious crashes in my PySide application. I am currently on Python 2.7 in Windows and want to build the debug versions of Python and PySide to help debug. I followed the instructions here to build the debug version of…
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How to remove unused functions in Visual Studio 2013

Does Visual Studio 2013 have facility for showing unused functions? What is the best solution to removing those functions?
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Visual Studio 2013 update 3, Designer won't load

I have the following situation. I installed Visual Studio Update 3 last night. Now I have a problem that when I open my projects (Universal Apps) which i have done while i had update 2, my designer won't load and it throws an exception: Does anyone…
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Cannot get Console.Writeline to redirect to visual studio window

I have a program that just does Console.WriteLine("abc"); I would like to get that output to be within the visual studio window rather than in a cmd window that pops up. I have tried what was suggested at this SO link here but it hasn't helped. I…
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Task host node exited prematurely Error. Log file location

For some time now I have trying to run a work project and recieving the following errors. Clicking run again correctly builds the project and allows me to run. Using TFS I have now checked my work in and other collegues have taken a copy, now thier…
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Using Oracles ODP.NET 12c Release 2 with Oracle 11g r2 Database

Our Oracle Db's are Oracle 11G r2,. We use Visual Studio 2013 for development. Is ODAC 12C backwards compatible with the Oracle 11g r2 server? Are there any issues a developer will encounter using a newer ODAC /ODP.NET version than the database it's…
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