Yes you can :   

    Edit &gt; Advanced &gt; Format document (Ctrl+K Ctrl+D)

If you want to leave your right hand free to do something else, you can use &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;E&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;D&lt;/kbd&gt;.

Not sure how this is different from &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;D&lt;/kbd&gt;.

Not 100% sure about VS2010, but in VS2015 if you copy and paste a long string of XML into an .XML document, it will automatically reformat it.

(&quot;Format Document&quot; is usually the way to go, just mentioning another option.)

Does anyone know the vendor prefix for gradients within IE9 or are we still supposed to still be using their proprietry filters?

What I&#39;ve got for the other browsers is:

    background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #444444, #999999); /* FF3.6 */
    background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0, #444444),color-stop(1, #999999)); /* Saf4+, Chrome */
    filter:  progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr=&#39;#444444&#39;, EndColorStr=&#39;#999999&#39;); /* IE6,IE7 */
    -ms-filter: &quot;progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr=&#39;#444444&#39;, EndColorStr=&#39;#999999&#39;)&quot;; /* IE8 */

As a bonus does anyone know Opera&#39;s vendor prefix as well?


Gradients in Internet Explorer 9

What do the icons in the following screen capture mean? The icons are from Subclipse, an SVN plugin for Eclipse.

![outgoing][1]

I&#39;m not asking about the base file icons, I know those (HTML file and Java source file). I&#39;m asking about the right-pointing dark gray arrows, which are labeled &quot;outgoing.&quot; What does that imply? Outgoing from the IDE to the repo, or outgoing from the repo to the IDE? Why are there minus signs inside the arrows? Sometimes, I see plus signs instead; other times, just empty arrows. What&#39;s the difference?

There are also left-pointing blue arrows and double-headed red arrows; what do those mean? What about cases when they contain other symbols, like `-` and `+`?

&lt;!-- ![changed][2] ![conflict][3] ![incoming][4] --&gt;

&gt; Note: This question has been edited pretty drastically. Normally I wouldn&#39;t change so much, but it had nearly no activity and was a dupe. The original question asked for an &quot;icon glossary&quot; that would explain all or most of Subclipse&#39;s icons, similar to [this one for Eclipse](http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/reference/ref-icons.htm). I&#39;d still love to know about one of those, but there just doesn&#39;t seem to be one out there.

  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/uOWoH.png
  [2]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/32XfT.png
  [3]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/KZyD6.png
  [4]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/UC0dv.png

What do the arrow icons in Subclipse mean?

Is there an easy way to reformat an XML file while viewing it Visual Studio 2010. For example, if you open a generated app.config file, it might look like:

    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;
    &lt;configuration&gt;
    &lt;startup&gt;&lt;supportedRuntime version=&quot;v4.0&quot; sku=&quot;.NETFramework,Version=v4.0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/startup&gt;&lt;/configuration&gt;

This is difficult to read, is there a way to instruct Visual Studio 2010 to format this, so that it looks more like:

    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;
    &lt;configuration&gt;
      &lt;startup&gt;
        &lt;supportedRuntime version=&quot;v4.0&quot; sku=&quot;.NETFramework,Version=v4.0&quot;/&gt;
      &lt;/startup&gt;
    &lt;/configuration&gt;

Thanks for any help.

**Update:** With credit to Julien Hoarau for one of the answers. The answers are:

    Edit -&gt; Advanced -&gt; Format Document (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D)
    Edit -&gt; Advanced -&gt; Format Selection (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F)



Reformat XML in Visual Studio 2010

Is there an easy way to reformat an XML file while viewing it Visual Studio 2010. For example, if you open a generated app.config file, it might look like:
<pre><code class="hljs language-xml">&#x3C;?xml version="1.0"?>
&#x3C;configuration>
&#x3C;startup>&#x3C;supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>&#x3C;/startup>&#x3C;/configuration>
</code></pre>
This is difficult to read, is there a way to instruct Visual Studio 2010 to format this, so that it looks more like:
<pre><code class="hljs language-xml">&#x3C;?xml version="1.0"?>
&#x3C;configuration>
 &#x3C;startup>
 &#x3C;supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
 &#x3C;/startup>
&#x3C;/configuration>
</code></pre>
Thanks for any help.
Update: With credit to Julien Hoarau for one of the answers. The answers are:
<pre><code class="hljs language-rust">Edit -> Advanced -> Format Document (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D)
Edit -> Advanced -> Format Selection (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F)
</code></pre>

I inherited a substantial amount of code, including a visual studio project that is supposed to (as best as I can tell) build a .lib file.  Visual studio says &quot;... Generating Code... Creating Library... Creating browse information file...&quot;, and at the end, it says the build succeeded.  In the release/debug folder, it has a bunch of .obj files, but it doesn&#39;t have a .lib file.  What could I be missing?

Thanks!

Build Succeeded, but no .lib file gets created

How can I automatically indent source code in Visual Studio 2010?

I have used &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;F&lt;/kbd&gt;, but it does not work; is there any other way/plugin to do this?

How to automatically indent source code?

I got the following warning

&gt; &#39;System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings&#39; is obsolete:
&gt; &#39;&quot;This method is obsolete, it has been replaced by
&gt; System.Configuration!System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings&quot;&#39;

How do you fix it?

&#39;System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings&#39; is obsolete

I have a Visual Studio 2010 project which references some third-party components. Their assemblies are accompanied by XML documentation files, which are useful for us (and only us) developers. And whenever the project is built (either in Debug or Release modes) these XML files are copied to the build directory.

I can&#39;t seem to find a setting or switch to disable the copy of those XML files to the build directory, either within Visual Studio or though MSBuild. A post-build script may be an option, but a smelly one. Any ideas? Thank you.

How to prevent the copy of XML documentation files in a release mode build?

When opening a text based file in Visual Studio 2010 it will then write my edits with CRLF instead of the line ending format of the original file. How can I stop VS from doing this? Any half decent editor should have this capability.

What&#39;s worse is that since VS wrote the file with portions in CRLF, it then (when opening the file again) will present a dialog asking me to convert the files line ending.

Stop Visual Studio from mixing line endings in files

I googled and found the below helpful references. Currently I want to run all from the command-line (for easy of execution &amp; quickness) in cases:

 1. A specific test (ie. a test written by a method marked [TestMethod()])
 2. All tests in a class
 3. All impacted tests of the current TFS pending change of mine.
 4. All tests
 5. All tests except the ones marked as category [TestCategory(&quot;some-category&quot;)]

I&#39;m not sure how can I write a correct command for my needs above.

References:

 1. the MSTest.exe http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182487.aspx
 2. the MSTest.exe&#39;s detailed options http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182489.aspx
 3. obtaining the result http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182488.aspx

[Edit]
------

After a while, I found the below useful tips.

 1. run Visual Studio unit tests by using MSTest.exe, located at `%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe` in my case.
 2. using `/testcontainer:Path\To\Your\TestProjectAssembly.dll` to indicate where your tests are coded. You can specify multiple &#39;/testcontainer&#39; options if required.
 3. using `/test:TestFilter` to filter the tests to run. Note that this filter is applied to the full test method name (ie. FullNamespace.Classname.MethodName)


How to run unit testing tests from command line?

I have a Windows Service Solution and am trying to add a service reference to a Hermes(Opensource ebms message server) Web Service in VS2010.

I can find the Web Service using it&#39;s URL, but when I try and populate the Service reference I get the following errors in Visual Studio:


    Error 8 Custom tool error: Failed to generate code for the service reference &#39;testService&#39;.  Please check other error and warning messages for details. C:\Users\Admin\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\MyProject\MyProject.MessageHandler\Service References\testService\Reference.svcmap 1 1 MyProject.MessageHandler
    
    
    Warning 6 Custom tool warning: Cannot import wsdl:binding
    Detail: There was an error importing a wsdl:portType that the wsdl:binding is dependent on.
    XPath to wsdl:portType: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace=&#39;http://service.ebms.edi.cecid.hku.hk/&#39;]/wsdl:portType[@name=&#39;EbmsStatusQuery&#39;]
    XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace=&#39;http://service.ebms.edi.cecid.hku.hk/&#39;]/wsdl:binding[@name=&#39;EbmsSoapHttpStatusQuery&#39;] C:\Users\Admin\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\MyProject\MyProject.MessageHandler\Service References\testService\Reference.svcmap 1 1 MyProject.MessageHandler
    
    Warning 7 Custom tool warning: Cannot import wsdl:port
    Detail: There was an error importing a wsdl:binding that the wsdl:port is dependent on.
    XPath to wsdl:binding: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace=&#39;http://service.ebms.edi.cecid.hku.hk/&#39;]/wsdl:binding[@name=&#39;EbmsSoapHttpStatusQuery&#39;]
    XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace=&#39;http://service.ebms.edi.cecid.hku.hk/&#39;]/wsdl:service[@name=&#39;EbmsMessageStatusQuery&#39;]/wsdl:port[@name=&#39;EbmsStatusQuery&#39;] C:\Users\Admin\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\MyProject\MyProject.MessageHandler\Service References\testService\Reference.svcmap 1 1 MyProject.MessageHandler
    
    Warning 5 Custom tool warning: Cannot import wsdl:portType
    Detail: An exception was thrown while running a WSDL import extension: System.ServiceModel.Description.XmlSerializerMessageContractImporter
    Error: Schema with target namespace &#39;http://service.ebms.edi.cecid.hku.hk/&#39; could not be found.
    XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace=&#39;http://service.ebms.edi.cecid.hku.hk/&#39;]/wsdl:portType[@name=&#39;EbmsStatusQuery&#39;] C:\Users\Admin\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\MyProject\MyProject.MessageHandler\Service References\testService\Reference.svcmap 1 1 MyProject.MessageHandler

Some investigation seemed to suggest it is due to svcutil.exe not been able to build the proxys due to not having permissions to a directory (possibly c:\windows\temp).  I have tried assigning various access permissions, but I am not really sure which user needs the permission, or if it is just a red herring.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks


Service Reference Error: Failed to generate code for the service reference

I work on an x86 pc and use .NET4.0 (same probelem with 3.5) in VS2010. When I make a new Project (e.g. WinFormsApp), the first thing I want to do is to change the target platform of the project/solution to &quot;Any CPU&quot;.

I do the following:

&gt; Project Properties -&gt; build -&gt; change TargetPlatform to &quot;Any CPU&quot;

On top of the properties page the platform is still &quot;Active (x86)&quot;, so I do

&gt; Solution Properties -&gt; ConfigurationsMgr -&gt; Platform -&gt; new (since nothing but x86 is available) and create the solution platform &quot;Any CPU&quot;.

Now the project properties are &quot;Active (Any CPU)&quot; and I can change it back and forth as I like.

And now the Problem: When I add a new Project, it is again set to &quot;Active (x86)&quot; and I -again - can&#39;t change the project settings. In the SolutionProperties -&gt; ConfigurationManager for this second project, the &quot;Any CPU&quot; platform is not available and I can&#39;t add a new one, since it tells me that a solution platform for AnyCPU is already there...

What am I doing wrong? Can it be so hard to set a newly created project to AnyCPU?


Content Type	Original Author	Original Content on Stackoverflow
Question	Michael Goldshteyn	View Question on Stackoverflow
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Solution 3 - Visual Studio	Jemmeh	View Answer on Stackoverflow

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What do the arrow icons in Subclipse mean?

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