I'm trying to figure out where the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools settings are stored. I recently moved to a new instance of visual studio and I've lost all of my Power Tools regex tab coloring settings. They are clearly not part of the normal VS2010 settings file, as I exported and imported this already. Any help would be great!
It's just stored in the registry under
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0
It seems the regexes are under
...\DialogPage\Microsoft.DocWellBehavior.Options.ColorCodingOptions
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We use Team Foundation Version Control(TFVC) on on-prem TFS server. For quite a while it was possible to use TFS Power Tools (tfpt tool) from Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt. Lately we moved to VS 2019. Problem is that we can't find any proper TFS Power Tools for VS 2019. For example to do undo checkout of unmodified files.
Does anyone had similar problem not being able to use tftp tools from VS 2019?
Does anyone had similar problem not being able to use tftp tools from VS 2019?
Sorry for any inconvenience.
This is a know issue about Visual Studio 2019. The Team Foundation Server Power Tools currently only updated to TFS2017, TFS2019 is not yet available.
Besides, Power tool has been renamed TFS Process Template Editor: TFS Process Template Editor
Edit: As of 10/16/2020 there is a TFS Template Editor for Visual Studio 2019
MS engineers are trying to develop it and will release it so that you can use it as soon as possible.
If you want to modify the work items, you can modify the work items by referring to the following documents:
Import, export, and manage work item types
Hope this helps.
For undoing unmodified files changes you can use this extension https://stackoverflow.com/a/52839174/6300406
I have Visual Studio installed in one PC in which text editor is format redundant code by color (as shown in the screen shot).
I want to activate this in visual studio copy installed on another PC.
That is not a Visual Studio feature, it is one of ReSharper Code Inspection features, hence you'll need to install ReSharper on the computer where you'd like to see this code coloring...
This is a visual studio (mine is 2015) feature and should be enabled. By default it should be enabled, but am not sure what version of visual studio you are using. You can enable it by going to Visual Studio -> Tools menu -> Options
i've created binding for Visual Studio's Edit.BriefBookmarkDropx commands:
Edit.BriefBookmarkDrop1: Ctrl+Shift+1
Edit.BriefBookmarkDrop2: Ctrl+Shift+2
Edit.BriefBookmarkDrop3: Ctrl+Shift+3
...
Edit.BriefBookmarkDrop9: Ctrl+Shift+9
Using Tools -> Options -> Keyboard:
Except that when i hit Ctrl+Shift+2, nothing happens:
i know Microsoft likes to obfuscate Visual Studio features. What's the secret trick that i'm missing?
Note: i am installed DPack into Visual Studio Professional - an addon that provides brief bookmarks (and a number of other essential features). Do not confuse this for an answer to my question:
you cannot install addons into Visual Studio Express
you cannot install addons into the Visual Studio Shell
my question isn't about addons
Bonus Reading
MSDN: How to: Use Bookmarks with Brief Emulation (Visual Studio 2008)
Numbered Bookmarks addon for Visual Studio 2005
DPak Numbered Bookmarks
It took four years, but i figured it out. Everything i was doing was correct. The only issue is that Visual Studio is stupid. Here's how to configure Visual Studio to drop a Brief bookmark:
How's that different from what i showed in the question?
Fails Use new shortcut in: Global
Works Use new shortcut in: Text Editor
By default any keys you bind in the Global space do nothing.
Which begs the question why the option is there, and the default? But usability is not something Visual Studio team prides itself on.
For some reason, on a new computer, Visual Studio won't auto-close curled brackets.
if(Username.Text.Equals()) {
And it doesn't auto-close. Works perfectly on all other machines I've installed VS2010 on. And now it just won't.
And there doesn't seem to be a setting in the options menu to alter this behavior. What do I need to do?
I'm not sure if this is actually built in to vs2010. But you can install the MS Productivity Power Tools (Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012) Which will give you brace auto completion. this is quite a common add in so maybe the other copies of VS you have tried have it installed??
Visual Studio will auto-format matching pairs of brackets as you type, but I have never seen this on Visual Studio 'out of the box'.
According to this Microsoft Connect entry, it's officially not on VS2010, having been cut due to time priority issues vs time constraints.
However, add ons like the free Microsoft Productivity Power Tools, or the not-so-free JetBrains ReSharper will add this functionality for you. Perhaps you had one of these (or other similar) add-ons installed in the other computers you have previously worked on.
I'm working on a Visual Studio 2008 Add-in that shows files from SharePoint. It is possible to edit file in SharePint from within Visual Studio, and I would like to give a view of the difference between the current document and the version saved in ShaerPoint and the last published version in SharePoint.
In the past there was Super Diff, but is it still supported for Visual Studio 2008? Is it posible to control it from code? Any other tools?
If you are looking for a free one, there is SourceGear's DiffMerge.
This very useful article describes the command line values for many of the diff tools you can incorporate into Visual Studio.
This article describes Changing the diff/merge program used by Visual Studio. It targets BeyondCompare (commercial) but the steps can be followed for any diff tool (using the arguments from the previous link).
There is also WinMerge.
EDIT: Just noticed you want to be able to control from code. Both of these tools have a command line interface.