Questions tagged [visual-studio-2015]

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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HTTP Error 502.5 - Process Failure when application is run from Visual Studio

I've seen this post, but it is not my case cause I run my project from Visual Studio. It is not a deployed application. I've recently installed Visual Studio 2015 Professional Update 3 and I am running locally ASP.NET Core Web with AngularJS 2…
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How to output new line in Visual Studio actions?

I add a break point in Visual Studio 2015, with an action to output a string to Output Window. There will be an auto-added line break at the end. Problem is, my previous output message(which is not output by break point) has no line break. So I want…
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extern keyword with explicit template instantiation

Consider a small toned down use case of my problem wherein I have a header as follows #include #pragma once #ifndef HEADER_H #define HEADER_H template class FOO { public: void func() { std::cout << "Foo!"; }; }; extern…
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VS 2015 Update 3 vbcscompiler.exe using all the cpu

I have Visual Studio 2015 version 14.0.25431.01 Update 3. When I am working with my solution it randomly starts to use all the CPU. Sometimes when I am not on the VS window, or just typing code. If I open Task Manager I see that vbcscompiler.exe is…
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Add a new service to existing service fabric application

How do I add a new Stateful Service to an existing service fabric application in Visual Studio 2015? I can only see the option to add a new service fabric application?
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VS 2015 Multiple assemblies with equivalent identity have been imported

One of my project solution is working fine on a system where I have installed VS 2013. But When I open the same project on another system in VS 2015 it is giving this reference error: Error CS1703 Multiple assemblies with equivalent identity have…
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Is there a way to force the Visual Studio document tabs to a specific width?

Document tabs in Visual Studio are sized to the name of the file as it appears on the tab. This means that the size of each tab that is open is contingent on the size of the text of the file name. Is there a setting buried somewhere that will allow…
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Automatically publish web application on build from Visual Studio 2015

Is there any way to automatically have a web application published using a pre-created publish profile on successful build? I don't want to have to click the publish icon, need this to happen on successful build of the web project, on Visual Studio…
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Why Git suggest "changes" to me on a (theoretically) ignored file (path)?

I'm using VS2015 GitHub extension, on a repositary I own (forked, really). Within the .gitignore file at some point I've this (taken from the fork, I didn't add myself that ignore): ... VST3_SDK/* ... but on VS2015 it seems to suggest a file…
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Visual Studio 2015: Quick Actions no longer working, error: Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.CodeAnalysis

Until yesterday, I could happily use Quick Actions and Refactoring in Visual Studio 2015. Today, it no longer works, even after restarting the PC and creating a completely new solution. Yesterday, when I changed a variable name, a light bulb…
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Enable Browser Link in Visual Studio Code

I would like to know if there is any Visual Studio Code extension for Enabling Browser Link DashBoard like in Visual Studio. I have been searching without luck, I just see result for debug. I miss open 5 windows, make a change and then ctrl + alt +…
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InspectorPackage did not load correctly

I recently installed Xamarin. I experienced no issues with it for about a week. Now, when i load visual studio I get an alert that says: The 'InspectorPackage' package did not load correctly. The problem may have been caused by a configuration…
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How to debug a project file in MSBuild 14.0 / VS2015?

How to debug a project file in MSBuild 12.0 / VS2013? has an answer, but apparently that method is not supported in Visual Studio 2015/MSBuild 14. Does anyone know a way to perform MSBuild debugging in Visual Studio 2015/MSBuild 14? Bonus points for…
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How to get C# (.net core) project directory path in Visual Studio 2017 RC3?

I have a C# (.Net Core) solution in visual studio 2017 RC3 that contains many projects (4 if you are curious) and that I recently migrated from the old project.json/visual studio 2015 format by using VS 2017 RC3. One of the projects is a test…
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Repeat Button Tapping

I have a control that allows the user to perform some heavy duty image processing on a specific part of an image and they have arrow buttons to move this area around the image. as the process is very heavy duty (avg 800ms per run) I have used a…
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