This post discusses the new language features that is introduced in Visual Studio 2012. One of the main things that language team introduced is the idea of producing windows 8 App. These APPs are talking to new API called windows runtime. Small new feature Caller Info Attributes is also added in this release. More about this feature can be read here. This release also brings iterators to...
Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft Test Manager is a tool which comes with Visual Studio 2012 , which was built from the scratch to support the needs of Manual testers. Using this tool you can manage and track test cases that helps both developer and tester.This post gives you an overview on Microsoft Software Testing tools. Back ground Prior to the release of Visual Studio 2010 launch the testing land scape and...
Visual Studio 2012 Testing Features for Developers
Developer Testing in Visual Studio 2012 has been improved a lot and it is allowing them to concentrate more on the code they are writing in the application. In addition to the testing framework that comes with Visual Studio 2012, you can easily add third-party testing frameworks in the IDE. This post discusses the new unit and integration testing features for developer in Visual Studio 2012. To...
Agile Development with Visual Studio 2012
Developers want to be more agile and want to cope up with interruptions. This post helps the developers to collaborate with teams using Visual Studio 2012 and focus on what they do as developers. Assume you are in the middle of implementing some requirement or fixing the bug, something else is come may be it is high priority bug or requirement which your manager want you to work on first...
ASP.NET Web Forms 4.5 new features in Visual Studio 2012
This post discuss ASP.NET Web Forms 4.5 features, Web Forms in 4.5 allows you to build dynamic web sites quickly and easily. Web Forms generates much cleaner code on client-side with Unobtrusive Validation in this version. You can also build data-centric applications easily with data-binding features. Typical Web Form which contains more fields and validation controls can generate more code on...
SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2012
This post discusses about SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 developer tools in Visual Studio 2012 which helps you to build the application more easily and efficiently. SharePoint 2013 allows you to develop the apps, What is Apps in SharePoint 2013? Apps for SharePoint are self-contained pieces which gives the functionality that extends the SharePoint site. You have the developer tools to build...
Visual Studio 2012 IDE enhancements
This post discusses the new productivity and capability features of Visual Studio 2012 IDE for developers. Visual Studio 2012 IDE has got new UI with reduced number of lines, gradients and colors. The content in the IDE differentiated by colors, Your code and icons related to the code will visible more prominent. You can notice there is only one row for tool bar buttons in above picture, others...
Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 Released
I am excited to share the download link and features link for Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 from Jason Zander and Hanselman
Download Visual Studio 2012
Happy coding!
What’s new in Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate
Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate is available for download and number of features have been added since Visual Studio 2011 beta. You can read my previous post on Visual Studio 2011 beta features here. This post discuss the about new features in Release Candidate. IDE Updates Updated user interface in Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate as shown below You can notice there is a change...