{"id":2561,"date":"2013-01-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2013\/01\/30\/announcing-visual-studio-2012-update-2-vs2012-2\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:18:19","slug":"announcing-visual-studio-2012-update-2-vs2012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/announcing-visual-studio-2012-update-2-vs2012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2).\u00a0 It\u2019s exciting to see the next update of VS working it\u2019s way to completion.\u00a0 There\u2019s going to be a ton of cool new capabilities in Update 2.\u00a0 Not all of them are available in this CTP but many are.\u00a0 Below, I\u2019ve described the significant improvement\u2019s that you\u2019ll find in this CTP and I\u2019ve grouped them into 4 categories:<\/p>\n

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  1. Agile Planning<\/li>\n
  2. Quality Enablement<\/li>\n
  3. Line of Business Development<\/li>\n
  4. Developer Experience<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This CTP is NOT a \u201cgo-live\u201d CTP.\u00a0 It is for evaluation only.\u00a0 We\u2019re trying to learn from Update 1 and get feedback earlier in the cycle.\u00a0 We will be having \u201cgo-live\u201d pre-releases of Update 2 in order to facilitate that but not quite yet.<\/p>\n

    You can download the CTP here: http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=273878<\/a><\/p>\n

    You can ask questions and provide feedback on our forums<\/a> or Connect<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Agile Planning<\/h2>\n

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    Work item tagging<\/strong> \u2013 New work item tags provide categorization and filtering of work items.\u00a0 Easily add tags to items and then filter by them in both backlog and work item query views in Team Web Access.<\/p>\n

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     <\/p>\n

    Send work items via email<\/strong> \u2013 Ability to send a work item as an email message in Team Web Access<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Quality Enablement<\/h2>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Test Hub in Team Web Access<\/strong> \u2013 Lightweight browser-based test management and execution to enable manual testing on systems where you can\u2019t install Test Professional.\u00a0 Including the ability to view and edit test cases in a test plan and run manual test cases.<\/p>\n

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    Some test process customization<\/strong> \u2013 Customize the list of possible test resolution and failure types.<\/p>\n

    Group unit tests by class<\/strong> \u2013 Another way to easily categorize\/organize tests.<\/p>\n

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    Playlists<\/strong> \u2013 Easily create arbitrary groups of unit tests, save them and run them.<\/p>\n

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    Fakes & stubs in Premium<\/strong> \u2013 We have decided to include Fakes & Stubs in VS Premium (in addition to Ultimate) to allow unit tests to be more easily shared across the whole team.<\/p>\n

    Windows Phone app unit testing<\/strong> \u2013 You can now write\/run unit tests on your Windows Phone apps.<\/p>\n

    Windows store app testing improvements<\/strong> \u2013 A [UITestMethod] attribute that will cause a unit test to run on the UI thread and Assert.ThrowsException<T> to validate exceptions thrown in async Lamda expressions.<\/p>\n

    Improved cross browser testing support<\/strong> \u2013 Extended \u201cTitle smart match\u201d support to Chrome and FireFox to find windows more reliably and added the ability to inject Javascript from inside a CodedUI test to automate test steps that are otherwise difficult to do.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Line of Business Development<\/h2>\n

    Improved Sharepoint load testing<\/strong> \u2013 Building on the Sharepoint load testing ability introduced in Update 1, we\u2019ve taken customer feedback and added additional support, like InfoPath, Excel services, Office Web Companions, workflows and more.<\/p>\n

    Office 2013 Support<\/strong> \u2013 We\u2019ve now added support across our tooling for Office\/Sharepoint 2013 support, including development, Coded UI testing, load testing, Intellitrace and more.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Developer Experience<\/h2>\n

    Blend for VS 2012<\/strong> \u2013 We\u2019ve added back Blend for VS 2012, including support for WPF, Silverlight and Sketchflow.<\/p>\n

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    CodeMap & Debugger integration \u2013<\/strong> Easily add a call stack to a CodeMap to explore code dependencies from your debugging session.<\/p>\n

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    Visual Studio Blue Theme<\/strong> \u2013 We\u2019ve incorporated the popular the VS \u201cBlue\u201d theme that we released on VSGallery into Update 2.<\/p>\n

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    Performance improvements in the XAML designer<\/strong> \u2013 particularly with respect to load time.<\/p>\n

    Build and Deploy Windows phone apps from the command line<\/strong> \u2013 Enable build and deploy workflows of Windows Phone projects from the command line.<\/p>\n

    New \u201cConnect\u201d page in Team Explorer<\/strong> \u2013 Makes it easier to find and connect to your project \u2013 local or remote.<\/p>\n

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    Improved version control experience in Team Web Access<\/strong> \u2013 Improved UI for browsing source, checkins and comparing files from the web.<\/p>\n

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     <\/p>\n

    Profiler events timeline<\/strong> \u2013 An events timeline for Windows store HTML\/JS applications.<\/p>\n

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    We\u2019re excited about what\u2019s coming in Update and, as always, we look forward to your feedback.<\/p>\n

    Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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