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  1. Global intellisense for javascript and css in Visual Studio

    Would be nice if Visual Studio would inspect the javascript and css files in the project and show intellisense for the files in partials, user control, master pages, pages, etc.

    1,176 votes
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      7 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Put IoC front and centre

      Bake inversion of control into the framework and reduce the reliance on inheritance. This will allow greater extensibility and enable new scenarios. A good example of this is MVCTurbine (http://turbineproject.com) - rather than developers having to roll infrastructure themselves, they could hit the ground running with their IoC container of choice.

      914 votes
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      • Add Support for F# Code-Behind ASP.NET

        Elevating F# to a more equal footing with VB and C# for ASP.NET

        735 votes
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          7 comments  ·  F#  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • New membership provider interface supporting redirection-based login

          OpenID, ADFS, and other redirection-based login protocols don't fit the membership provider interface at all. Please add an interface that can be implemented by an OpenID library decently.

          654 votes
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          • Take my site/app offline during publishing

            Currently when I publish my site/app it stay's online. It would be better to drop an app_offline.htm during publishing so that my app doesn't behave in a funky fashion.

            625 votes
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            • Support Spark inside VisualStudio

              Spark is great but doesn't have a very good developer story inside VS. Having intellisense work on Spark views would be really great, not only code-wise but also for HTML and JS

              522 votes
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              • Add MONO support/compatibility

                Add please more MONO support/compatibility

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                • Find dead/unused code in the solution

                  After some time certain parts of code i n a project end up not being used anymore and just waste screen estate. It would be handy if Visual Studio could detect this and warn you about it.

                  387 votes
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                    7 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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                    • Allow me to store my Visual Studio preferences as separate profiles in the cloud

                      Store all of my settings associated with my LiveID or OpenID, and let me easily pick between for example my desktop, laptop, presenter, etc. settings. If I walk up to a friend's machine, I should be able to grab my settings from the cloud and when I'm done, he can revert to his, with minimal effort.

                      313 votes
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                      • Compress and minify published ASP.NET pages

                        I made a small test and on a standard ASP.NET page, just only with removing whitespaces and line breaks, page size decreased by %35-40. Lower page size means higher performance. There are solutions for it but all are based on server side dynamic solutions. But there is a simplier way. For ex. just clean it when it is published and generate dynamic controls accordingly. It won't any give runtime overhead and will only give performance.

                        264 votes
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                        • Make WebDeploy transactional

                          When deploying a site, the previous version should continue to run. If the deployment fails, the site should continue to run on the previous version. If it succeeds, the switch should happen after publication is complete.

                          232 votes
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                          • Support Script# and give us an answer to the Google Web Toolkit.

                            I would love to use Script# similar to how Google Web Toolkit works. Your Javascript story is still pretty weak in terms of allowing us to easily make complicated AJAX applications.

                            190 votes
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                            • Remove Visual Studio Dependencies from MSTest

                              I can't stand the idea of having to install Visual Studio on a build server. MSTest should be standalone like NUnit (or any other test frameworks).

                              181 votes
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                              • Integrated ftp uploader for website files.

                                In most case scenarios I'm uploading my website files using ftp and publishing tool is very uncomfortable.Meanwhile not all hosting companies are giving full access to their servers.
                                I remember in VS2005 there was an extension named Dispatch. It was very comfortable, right click, upload and file is on deployment server.
                                I think this can really save a lot of development time.

                                151 votes
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                                  2 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                                  Hi Michael, if I understand you correctly you want a way to easily publish a small set of files to the destination. We’ve heard similar feedback previously and I appreciate you creating this item here. I have placed an entry on our backlog for this so that we can consider it for a future version.

                                • Knockout Intellisense for databinding to a specific ViewModel using Design Time Comment like in XAML

                                  It would be helpful if they allowed you to add a html comment specialized in letting the designer know that a specific region is using a specific JavaScript file that represents the view model. That way when the designer can’t figure it out, we can override it to be very specific. This would be very similar to the design time XAML syntax you can use to tell it the data bind type.

                                  144 votes
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                                  • Precompile razor view before publishing

                                    Compiling views on the webserver takes a lot of ressource, and during that time the application is slow to respond.
                                    I would be great if we could publish compiled versions of our views. I know razorgenerator do this, but it's not native and we only want compile views for deployment, not when developing.

                                    Thanks

                                    97 votes
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                                      • 91 votes
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