Visual Studio

Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft.

Add manifest file

• Right click on Solution Explorer → <Project> → Add → New Item → Application Manifest File.
• The file app.manifest will be created.

Automatically close console when debug stops

• Go to Tools → Options → Debugging.
• Check Automatically close the console when debugging stops.

Fix inconsistent line endings

• Go to Edit → Find and Replace → Quick Replace.
• Check Use Regular Expressions.
• Replace (?<!\r)\n for \r\n.

Hide reference counts

• Go to Tools → Options → Text Editor → All Languages → CodeLens.
• Uncheck Enable CodeLens or Show C# and Visual Basic References.

Hide vertical dotted indentation

• Go to Tools → Options → Text Editor.
• Uncheck Show structure guide lines.

Run debug as administrator

Go to app.manifest → <requestedPrivileges> and add the execution level requirement:

<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false"/>

• When trying to debug, the editor will warn about the admin right and restart itself with admin rights.
• The executable will be marked as requiring admin rights, therefore when deploying is not necessary to configure admin rights in the file properties.