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When you don’t limit INetCache size

Posted on October 4, 2021 by Sergey Vlasov

Investigated why daily Visual Studio 2019 update hangs on my machine and found this: I’ve never seen 52 million files in one folder before. Check yours c:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\IE (requires admin rights).

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Visual Commander v3.2 automates Visual Studio 2022

Posted on July 13, 2021 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Commander is a freemium extension for Visual Studio 2017+ allowing you to automate repetitive tasks in the IDE. v3.2 adds support support for Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1.1: See the full what’s new list. Download the installer.

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Text Sharp v2.4 lets you adjust text clarity in Visual Studio 2022

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Sergey Vlasov

Text Sharp is a free extension for Visual Studio that lets you adjust text clarity in the IDE: v2.4.0 adds support for Visual Studio 2022 and stops support for Visual Studio 2015. Download the installer.

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Tabs Studio v5 extends Visual Studio 2022 document tabs

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Sergey Vlasov

Tabs Studio is a Visual Studio and SSMS extension empowering you to work comfortably with any number of open documents. v5.0.0 adds support for Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1.1, bringing multiple rows of tabs, tab grouping and tab coloring to … Continue reading →

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Continuous Formatting adds support for TypeScript and JavaScript

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Sergey Vlasov

Continuous Formatting extension automates C# and C++ code formatting in Visual Studio. It removes the necessity to format code manually, arranging code continuously as you type and make changes. v2.1.2 adds support for TypeScript and JavaScript. Download the installer.

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Fake IE10 to install Visual Studio 2013

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Studio 2013 requires Internet Explorer 10. If you try to install it on Windows 7 with IE8 you get the following error “This version of Visual Studio requires Internet Explorer 10”: This prevents use of VS 2013 in many … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio 2013 RTM released

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Studio 2013 RTM is now available for download. See what’s new, download an installer, read about the new product activation procedure.

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New features in Visual Studio 2013 IDE

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

A new video is released on Visual Studio Toolbox featuring enhancements available in Visual Studio 2013 Preview: settings synchronization, notifications center, enhanced scroll bar, peek definition and CodeLenses. Watch the video.

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CodeFlow code review tool for Visual Studio

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

A new code review tool CodeFlow will ship in the next version of Visual Studio: The Story of CodeFlow.  

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Publishing Visual Studio extensions with Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11 support

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

Out of the box Visual Studio 2010 supports extensions development only for VS 2010 and Visual Studio 11 supports extensions development only for VS 11. If your Visual Studio extension supports both VS 2010/VS 11 and doesn’t contain much version … Continue reading →

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