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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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How to Enable WiX Projects in Visual Studio 2015

When I go the the New Project dialog in Visual Studio 2015, Windows Installer XML isn't available. How can I enable WiX projects in Visual Studio 2015?
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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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How to install Visual C++ Build tools?

I need to install Visual C++ Build Tools. When I've download installer, I've tried to install it, however it's telling me I need to uninstall VS 2015! How can I solve it? Why is Visual C++ Build tools telling me it needs to remove current VS 2015…
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Error: Typescript Feature 1.5. Current language level is 1.4

I am working in the context of Visual Studio 2015 (with Resharper), and am referencing a TypeScript definitions file for NodeJS. I have 3 other VS projects that are using node.d.ts without problems. In this new project, however, I now have 146…
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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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Does Visual Studio have code coverage for unit tests?

I am using Visual Studio 2015 Community edition, and I know that it has the option to create unit tests to test the code, but I don't see the option to test the code coverage, so I would like to know if Visual Studio has this option or if I have to…
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Visual Studio 2015 project no longer runs in debug mode

This is what I get even when I run in the Debug configuration: The way I got this to show was by enabling "Just My Code" and warn if there isn't any user code on launch. This is something that recently happened to our project, and I'm not sure what…
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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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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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Unable to start debugging. The startup project could not be launched. VS2015

I have started a new console project in VS2015. I only have this code : using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using SautinSoft; namespace PdfParser { class Program …
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Task Runner Explorer can't load tasks

I'm using VS2015 and Gulp. I open the Task Runner Explorer and hit refresh, and this shows up in the log: Failed to run "C:\Projects\Test\Gulpfile.js"... cmd.exe /c gulp --tasks-simple Error: `libsass` bindings not found in…
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Your project is not referencing the ".NETFramework,Version=v4.5" framework.

I am using VS 2015. Your project is not referencing the ".NETFramework,Version=4.5" framework. Add a reference to ".NETFramework,Version=4.5" in the "frameworks" section of your project.json, and then re-run NuGet restore. I am getting this…
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Packages not loading after installing Visual Studio 2015 RTM

The problem I had Visual Studio 2015 RC installed and installed Visual Studio 2015 RTM over it. I couldn't find anything on the Internet that said you couldn't do this. I don't know if this is relevant to the problem. Unfortunately, when I started…
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What is the *.VC.db file in Visual Studio projects?

In some Visual Studio 2015 projects that I have, there is a *.VC.db file in the project folder, named after the project: If the project name is FooBar, then the file is FooBar.VC.db. This file looks like a database of some sort, but I'm not using…
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