I am not entirely clear on whether your issue is installing the C++ tools for Windows XP or modifying your project/solution to target that platform. Either way, the following link should help you out. Here is a summary on how to install the toolset: Bring up the Visual Studio installer (Tools -> Get Tools and … Read more
Visual Studio 2015 – Update 1 Added Edit.GoToImplementation which appeared in the context menu, but there was no keyboard shortcut associated with it by default. Visual Studio 2015 – Update 2 Added a default shortcut of Ctrl + F12
In the Tools menu go to Options -> Environment -> Task List. Here you can enter Tokens. These tokens will be added to the task list, but will not be highlighted. That can be achieved with one of the available TODO highlighters.
Visual studio 2017-19 The default shortcut is Alt+Shift+. But if you want to add Ctrl+D Go to the menu Tools > Options then select the Keyboard tab on the left At the top you’ll find an option to add extra keybindings, select Visual Studio Code. Save and That’s it! This works because Visual Studio Code … Read more
Nope. Environment variable changes on Windows only take effect for new processes. You’ll have to exit Visual Studio and restart it.
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UPD 2024: standalone nuget commands replaced with dotnet nuget CLI. The information provided is relevant for VS2022 and .NET 8. Cache locations Solution-local packages folders are no longer used by .NET Core and Visual Studio. The command to list user-specific folders is: dotnet nuget locals all –list And its typical output (I’ve replaced absolute paths … Read more
Is there a simple way to disable this highlighting? Tools -> Options -> Text Editor, in the Display group, uncheck “Highlight current line” Which parameter in Fonts and Colors dialog controls the background color of the currently selected line in the editor? The colors are named “Highlight Current Line (Active)” and “Highlight Current Line (Inactive)”
No, this is currently not possible. If you’d like to see this, I suggest you give the product team a shout-out on the Visual Studio UserVoice and post back the link as a comment to this answer. I’d suggest not to move the code lens information, but to suggest the location to be made configurable … Read more
I’ve tried to empty the folder completely, and have no problems found since i’ve done. When launching a project in VS, a new schema was created. Edit: you can also move the folder and put it back when you believe you screwed things up…