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Visual Studio 2015 is the version of Microsoft's Visual Studio product suite which follows 2013 version (also known as "Dev14", includes C++ compiler version 19.0). Use this tag if you have a specific question about Visual Studio 2015 features and functionality, not just a question reading your code.

The version of Visual Studio which follows . The Release to Market (RTM) version of Visual Studio 2015 has been made available from July 20th 2015.

Visual Studio 2015 includes a variety of improvements, including better use of the Roslyn compiler tools, simplified community versions and plugin support for the community edition, better cross-platform development support and an improved debugger1.

Visual Studio is followed by , which was released on March 7th 2017

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Visual Studio popup: "the operation could not be completed"

When I try to open a project, local or on a Team Foundation Server (TFS), I get a modal window telling me that: The operation could not be completed: Unspecified error Or the same message, but with "Class not defined.." instead of "Unspecified…
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What makes the Visual Studio debugger stop evaluating a ToString override?

Environment: Visual Studio 2015 RTM. (I haven't tried older versions.) Recently, I've been debugging some of my Noda Time code, and I've noticed that when I've got a local variable of type NodaTime.Instant (one of the central struct types in Noda…
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How to download Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 (not 2017)

I have a Resharper 9x license and it is only compatible up to MS VS Community 2015 edition. I tried to download the 2015 version from Microsoft but their website stubbornly wants me to have 2017, only. Can someone please provide me a url to the 2015…
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Publish to IIS, setting Environment Variable

Reading these two questions/answers I was able to run an Asp.net 5 app on IIS 8.5 server. Asp.net vNext early beta publish to IIS in windows server How to configure an MVC6 app to work on IIS? The problem is that the web app is still using…
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Disable Visual Studio 2015 extra debug option

When I debug my application in Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, and I open a custom wpf dialog I get some extra debugging options in a black square. See image blow. How do I disable that? This first icon says "Go To Live Visual Tree". The…
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Can I record/play macros in Visual Studio 2012/2013/2015/2017/2019?

Apparently macros were dropped from Visual Studio 2012. Is there a plugin/extension/tool that will let me record & play keyboard macros (much like the record/play temporary macro in Visual Studio 2010)? For example, I typically would use a macro…
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Why is the Visual Studio 2015/2017/2019 Test Runner not discovering my xUnit v2 tests

UPDATE: Adding a 2019; the discovery/runner integration mechanism is same as per 2017 & 2015, so the key things that can go wrong are the same. I've read Why is the xUnit runner not finding my tests, which covers reasons xUnit would never be able…
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visual studio 2015 vshub is spamming fiddler

I have read: How do I disable VsHub.exe in the system tray? and https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/1919828/hundreds-of-calls-second-to-vshub-and-browserlink-is-off I would prefer to not disable vshub; I just want it to be…
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Disabling highlighting of current line in the Visual Studio editor

The Visual Studio editor highlights the current line by changing the background color of the current line. Is there a simple way to disable this highlighting? Otherwise, which parameter in Fonts and Colors dialog controls the background color of…
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Unable to Install Any Package in Visual Studio 2015

I've tried every package I could possibly find and none of them will install in my project. I've installed every update listed in the Extensions and Updates list that were available. When I attempt to install SendGrid for example, this is the…
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Remove git mapping in Visual Studio 2015

This question has nothing to do with git itself; rather, it has to do with removing a binding/mapping to a git repository that Visual Studio 2015 (VS2015) has previously seen. Here's a screen shot of the problem: Notice that the remove button is…
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The default XML namespace of the project must be the MSBuild XML namespace

I cloned the ASP.NET Core SignalR Repo locally, and try opening the solution from within the following environment. IDE Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 Version 14.0.25431.01 Update 3 Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.6.01055 DOT NET CLI λ…
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Client authentication error when starting Visual Studio 2015 SP3

I just performed a clean install of Visual Studio 2015 SP3, and I'm getting this in the Output window at startup: We were unable to automatically populate your Visual Studio Team Services accounts. The following error was encountered: TF400813:…
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Breakpoint Failed to Bind - Visual Studio 2015

I just upgraded from Visual Studio 2013 to 2015 and now I am having trouble with breakpoints. It's a hit or a miss where break points will actually work and if I set one while debugging I get the error: The breakpoint failed to bind. Any help…
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CMake error at CMakeLists.txt:30 (project): No CMAKE_C_COMPILER could be found

I'm trying make a Visual Studio solution with CMake to compile the latest version of aseprite and CMake keeps giving me the: No CMAKE_C_COMPILER could be found. No CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER could be found. I've already downloaded GCC, and I'm using…
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