Visual Studio does not let me drag drop items into it?

Question

Using Visual studio 2010 I got problems when double-clicking, for example a config file (*.config). Visual Studio would open but give me a error message about parameters. If

Answer 1

This was driving me nuts. In my Visual Studio solution I have two Web Application which use IIS as web server so because of this I have to always start my Visual Studio in Administrator mode. After starting as Admin I wasn't able to drag and drop files from Explorer to Visual Studio.

Solution:

1. Open Command Prompt as Administrator (Shortcut for Windows 8.1 is ⊞ Win + X + A)
2. Type "explorer" this would open Windows Explorer with Admin privileges.

And now you should be able to drag and drop any file from explorer to Visual Studio