Questions tagged [vs-community-edition]
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Profiling tests in Visual Studio Community 2015
Posts on the web suggest that you can profile tests in Visual Studio by right-clicking and selecting "Profile Test": http://adamprescott.net/2012/12/12/performance-profiling-for-unit-tests/ But I only see "Run Test" and "Debug Test" for my NUnit…

Neil Brown
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How to install Visual Studio Build Tools 2010 on Visual Studio 2015 Community?
I have a project created on Visual Studio 2010. When I try to run the project on Visual Studio 2015 Community edition I get the error below,
Severity Code Description Project File Line
Error MSB8020 The build tools for Visual Studio…

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Can Visual Studio Community 2015 be easily updated to Visual Studio Professional 2015
I have Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 installed on my drive D:.
I recently got a 1TB SSD for my C: drive and wanted to move VS to that drive. Long story shortened; it was a nightmare. Although I could uninstall VS, I could not get it to…

Scott Jibben
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Is there a "Go To Variable Type Declaration" function for C# in Visual Studio 2015 or a free plugin which does it?
void MagicalFunction(MagicalType magic)
{
...
magic.Poof("something");
...
var foo = magic.GetFoo();
...
}
Pressing the hotkey on variable magic would navigate to definition of type MagicalType.
Pressing the hotkey on foo would…

JBeurer
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VS.2017 cannot add project to TFS Source Control
Visual Studio 2017 has been the crappiest so far. I have an existing solution that I want to add to source control (VisualStudioOnline.com) but every time I do it simply creates a GIT repository locally and I DO NOT want GIT. It does not even ask.
I…

Lord of Scripts
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Visual Studio Community for commercial project outside windows store
I want to develop a commercial win32 desktop application using Visual Studio Community edition 2015. It's good to say that I'm the only developer. Nobody else is going to join me. And I don't want to sell it in the windows store. Rather, distribute…

Abrar Borno
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Visual Studio 2015: Can't create a new empty project c++
I recently got the new version of Visual Studio and I can't seem to find how to create an empty project for C++. The options seem to be only C# and Basic.

Crowning
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How to properly install StyleCop for Visual Studio 2017 Community?
Well i downloaded the newest version, then installed, checked to instal entire files on local drive. I restarted Visual Studio 2017 Community and rerun it. Unfortunatelly i can't find in menu > tools anything with should be connected with stylecop (…

RFE Petr
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Creating local database at run time with Visual Studio
Beginner's question - please can I ask for advice on creating local database files programmatically at run time. I want to be able later to rename, delete them etc using Windows Explorer in the same way as for text and other files, and to copy them…

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Does Qt Visual Studio Add-in support Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition?
As the title asks, does Qt Visual Studio Add-in support Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition or not? That is, can it be installed and integrated into VS2013 Community Edition?
Asking because it doesn't support VS Express, and the Community Edition…

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Cannot run multiple go files
I have two go files in a directory.
Go
├── mains.go
└── vars.go
The code for the mains.go and vars.go are given below:
mains.go
--------
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Println("This is the mains…

Sooraj
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Cannot create a new project in Visual Studio 2015
Here's a very weird issue I'm having, it was fine a few days ago:
Any way to fix that?
Basically a template chooser opens after I press OK and nothing else happens.
user5353145
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The reference component could not be found - yellow triangle (visual studio 2017)
There are two projects in my solution. The references in the first one are detected, while the same references in the second one are not detected. Yellow triangles indicates that those references are not found.
Red is my second project, and blue is…

Aryan Firouzian
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Entity Data Model Wizard closes after selecting connection and not proceeding to next stage(table/sp selection)
I know this is kind of weired issue, but I'm unable to find a fix after searching for it.
In VS2015, add new 'ADO.NET Entity Data Model' process, After selecting the data connection Entity Data Model Wizard gets closed instead of proceeding to next…

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Does Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition have MVC templates?
When I try to create an ASP.NET 5 project in Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition I don't see the MVC templates:
I've tried the solutions from "Missing MVC template in Visual Studio 2015" but no joy.
Does Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition have…

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