I had this same problem, then i found a way to separate it like this, Right click on the XAML file in the solution explorer and select Open With; select Source Code (Text) Editor (instead of XML (Text) editor). This creates a separate tab for the XAML source editor, just undock it and create a … Read more
This is a workaround that seems to get around the problem. In Visual Studio, select Tools / Options / Source Control / Visual Studio Team Foundation System and click the Configure User Tools button. In the dialog, Add an item with the following settings. Extension : .* Operation : Compare Command : C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual … Read more
I had the same problem and solved it by saving the razor file (Ctrl + S). Once I did this I could use the Enter, Backspace and Navigation keys again. I believe that Alt + Enter may also work. I don’t often get into this state and the above solution does not solve the underlying … Read more
You could open the SLN file in any text editor (Notepad, etc.) and simply change the project path there.
In Visual Studio go to: Tools Options Environment Keyboard Find “Edit.DeleteBackwards” command. In “Use new shortcut in:” dropdown select “Text Editor”. In “Press shortcut keys:” click backspace so it would show “Bkspce” Click “OK”. Backspace should start working for you again.
Edit: In Windows 10 this setting is in a different place: Open settings Click Personalization Click Themes in the right sidebar Click Mouse Cursor Select the Scheme called – Windows Black (system scheme) Click Apply Original Answer: I have the same problem in Visual Studio 2012 (Dark Theme) on a Windows 7 guest system running … Read more
Found out what happened I installed first Visual Studio, and removed some components that I thought wouldn’t be necessary (c++, f#, etc). I also removed visual web developer tools (shouldn’t have done that… you’ll see why in a minute). After that, I installed Service Pack 1. Then, when trying to install the Silverlight 4 tools, … Read more
Go to Tools, Options, Projects And Solutions, and uncheck Show Output Window when Build Starts.
Toggle it on/off with: Edit > Advanced > View white space The default hotkey is usually ctrl+E,S (I think this is for General or C# developer settings) If you use Resharper, you may find you need to use ctrl+R,ctrl+W (this may also apply for C++ developer settings) (Note that the hotkey may be different for … Read more
I encountered the same issue when building via TFS. When I tried to manually import the website I got a more informative error: “not able to log on the user \WDeployConfigWriter”. Turns out that when you install web deploy it sets up two local accounts WDeployConfigWriter and WDeployAdmin. The passwords on these accounts are set … Read more