This post explains the features that have been introduced for unit testing in Visual Studio 2012 update 1 and 2. Visual Studio 2012 update 1 and 2 introduced many new features for testing which can be read here. New features grouping and filtering tests by project, by trait or by class enables testers to work with lots of tests easier. Now developers can group their tests in test explorer...
Testing Features added in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2
This post explains the enhanced testing features that were introduced with Visual Studio 2012 update 2. In Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) has been updated with new features enabling manual testers more productive and efficient. The new feature Test Management and execution from light-weight browser based environment. This web based test management features enables manual...
Creating SharePoint App using Office Developer Tools
Office Developer tools for Visual Studio 2012 allows you to develop Apps for office and SharePoint 2013. The tools can be downloaded from here. This post outlines the steps to create the SharePoint ContactListApp using Visual Studio 2012. Create a new Project in Visual Studio 2012 and select App for SharePoint 2013 template. once you click ok it then asks you to give the name for App and...
Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012
Using Developer Tools for Visual Studio you can develop new class Apps for Office and SharePoint 2013.Developing Apps is as easy as developing web applications, you can use HTML and Java Script and server side languages such as C# and VB for App development.You can then host the App in Office store or Corporate environment. The developer tools for Visual Studio 2012 can be downloaded from here...
Top Features in ASP.NET Web Tools 2012.2
ASP.NET Web Tools 2012.2 is an ASP.NET release with features including entire ASP.NET family (Web Forms, MVC, Web API). This release also includes new tooling for Visual Studio 2012 that improve the web development experience.This post overviews the features in this incremental release. You can download the tools from here.The installation is pretty quick and it would not ask you to reboot...
Visual Studio 2012 Update2(Feb CTP) features
Visual Studio Team aiming to release updates through out the year 2012. As part of this they have released Update1 and features can be read here. This post details the new features in Visual Studio Update2. You can download the Visual Studio 2012 udpate2 CTP from here. Visual Studio 2012 update2 mainly focusing on Modern Application life cycle and development. The features in this...
Gits support to Visual Studio and TFS
Some good news to Visual Studio developers, Full Visual Studio integration with Gits and Visual Studio now can talk to Gits repository projects. Also full support to Team Foundation servers and now you can create traditional team foundation projects and Git version control projects all integrated inside team foundation server. You can download this Visual Studio extension tool from here...
Visual Studio 2012 Update1 features
Visual Studio team aimed to deliver regular updates to the 2012 version which is update one includes not only the new features but also bug fixes and performance improvements. This post details the new features and improvements in Visual Studio 2012 update1. You can download the Visual Studio 2012 update 1 from here 1. It gives you the ability to write C++ applications using Visual Studio...
Using Code Map in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate
This post explains how to analyze and navigate complex code using Code Map in Visual Studio 2012. The new Code Map feature in Visual Studio 2012 ultimate allows you to create visualizations in your source code. This helps you to identify and quickly fix the bugs in your code. You need to install Visual Studio update to get this feature from here. With Visual Studio 2012 you can right click on...
Testing features added in Visual Studio 2012 Update1
This post explains the enhanced testing features that were introduced with Visual Studio 2012 update 1. Visual Studio 2012 now supports code coverage analysis during the manual testing. This functionality can be enabled by configuring test settings in Microsoft Test manager. This feature is currently supported for ASP.NET applications that running on IIS. To enable this feature click the Test...