Visual Studio 2013 Flexera customer community tab

Question

First of all, they took away the default setup project and give us a 3rd party tool to package ( maybe its a topic for a separate forum), but visual studio keeps opening a new tab with the flexera customer support page(with an irritating javascript error) whenever i have a 'error' in my code .

how can i disable this feature ?

Answer 1

As a workaround, you can go to Solution Properties -> Configuration Properties -> and uncheck the Build action for the setup Project (then close and reopen visual studio).

Later you reactivate it only when setup creation is required.

Answer 2

Another workaround. Right-click on setup project and choose Unload Project. When you want to build setup again, use Reload Project.

Answer 3

Not a solution, but another workaround. Edit your hosts file and point that website to localhost. Gets rid of the popups, but not the extra tab in Visual Studio.

1) Run this:

notepad C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

2) Add this text and save the file:

# To get rid of the annoying javascript error popups in Visual Studio
# Example problem URL: http://flexerasoftware.force.com/SupportKBList?searchString=-1014
127.0.0.1   flexerasoftware.force.com

3) Run this:

ipconfig /flushdns

4) Close re-open Visual Studio.

Answer 4

My favorite workaround (10 seconds but must be re-done after each VS2013 restart):

1) Right click the tab and click [Float]

2) Minimize the window and put it in an unused corner of VS 2013