I'm used to seeing an update option in Help About. How do you update the Visual Studio 2017 IDE to the latest version?
While in the Visual Studio 2017 IDE, you'll see a yellow flag in the title bar that indicates that at least one notification is waiting:
You can single-click that flag icon to view the notifications. If you see an update, you can click the link. That takes you to the Extensions and Updates window.
But to get to updates when you might have dismissed notifications or when you don't see the yellow-flag icon, you can get to that window directly. To do that, go to Tools | Extensions and Updates. On the left pane select Updates. You'll see a list of available updates. To install one, click the Update button. In the image below, Visual Studio Update 15.1 (26403.7) is available and its Update button appears on the right edge of the selected item.
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Does Rectangle Select functionality (viz., click, hold, and drag the mouse to create a selection) exist for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 RDLC Report Designer?
What I'm trying to do:
After opening an existing RDLC file for editing in Design mode, I want to efficiently make room for a new text box in the middle of the report.
When I attempt to click and drag to select objects to move, the Rectangle Select doesn't appear.
Installation Details
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Professional (v15.8) with two Microsoft Marketplace add-ons installed:
Microsoft RDLC Report Designer for Visual Studio (v14.2)
Microsoft Reporting Services Projects (v1.24)
The project uses NuGet package Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportViewerControl.WebForms (v140.1000.523) to display the report.
Deploying and rendering works fine. This question just pertains to moving things in Design view.
Rectangle Select seems to trigger only after a click+hold+drag starting from the design surface of the Report Header, Body, or Footer.
It seems a click+hold+drag starting from anywhere else (e.g., the whitespace outside the report) fails to trigger Rectangle Select.
I have installed JetBrains' dotCover application (not the full ReSharper, but it still manages to get its big, meaty claws on my keybindings and such), and the Navigate > option in the context menu is now unavailable.
I have configured ReSharper's settings as follows, and have tried other combinations as well:
I have also tried resetting my keyboard shortcuts by going to Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard and clicking Reset, and Navigate is still unavailable.
All I want is the test runner functionality of dotCover, with no other changes to my stock IDE settings. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this, or at the very list, how I can get Navigate back?
This Navigate menu item comes from ReSharper, not from Visual Studio. All Visual Studio navigation-related menu items appear above Navigate item on your screenshot. You might disable dotCover in Tools | Options | ReSharper Ultimate | Suspend now and check that Navigate menu item will disappear from the context menu. I've filed a new request to fix this.
I downloaded the visual studio 2017 with c# and xamarin when it gave me a lot of choices at installation time, now I want to install c++ also in existing vs2017. How can I do that? I don't want to install the whole visual studio again.
1.Go to Control panel
2.In the Add or Remove Programs dialog box, select the product you want to repair and then click Change/Remove
3.In the Setup wizard, click Next
4.Click Repair
5.Then Modify it by selecting C++ to add it.
Note : This work in Window OS only
Alternative answer (less searching needed) : Visual Studio 2017 also adds the " Visual Studio Installer" directly to the Windows Start Menu (this is the same executable used by #John Joe's answer).
I installed NSight for Visual Studio 2012 several days ago. But today there is something wrong with the 'Pause and Capture frame' functionality. Actually, when I click on the icon as showing below I don't have the frame scrubber in visual studio (the page showing the analysis page)!
Here's the steps I follow:
1) Click on 'NSIGHT' menu and 'Start Graphics Debugging'
2) The program is being launched in a window showing the NSIGHT GUI on it. I press the command 'CTRL + Z' and I click on the icon 'Pause and Capture frame' as follow:
Then have the following display:
But on my Visual Studio interface I don't have the 'Frame Scrubber' (the analysis page showing all the information about all the graphics pipeline).
I don't have this page:
I think I have unintentionally modified a propertie which disabled the loading of this page.
Does anyone can help me, please ?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help!
The solution is to click on 'Window' menu and 'Reset Window Layout' as follow:
I hope this post will be helpfull for somebody!
The Nsight Visual Studio Graphics Debugger adds a number of new Toolwindows to Visual Studio. These toolwindows can be accesssed through the Nsight > Windows submenu.
After executing "Pause and Capture a Frame" the graphics debugger is in a paused replay mode. The graphics API state is available in the "API Instpector" toolwindow which can be opened using the command Nsight > Windows > API Inspector.
The API Inspector is a multi-instance toolwindow as are most of the graphics debugger toolwindows. This means that you can open the window multiple times. If you close all instances of the window it will not be re-opened when you "Pause and Capture a Frame". The toolwindow is persisted in the Visual Studio Debug Window Layout and will only be visible in Paused Mode.
For more information see the Nsight Visual Studio Edition User Guide section on the API Inspector
Currently to get to Build page, we open Team Explorer and hit Home button and go for Build.
What is the hotkey for that?
(from user admdrew)
This seems to be the closest you can get (also seen here).