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Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Survey
Have you had a chance to play around with the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview? If so, we’d like to hear your early impressions, particularly around performance, reliability, and quality. Let us know what you think by taking the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview survey.Thanks!Doug Turnure – Visual Studio Program Manager
Private Extension Galleries for the Enterprise
In Visual Studio 2010, we introduced a feature called the Extension Manager – a new dialog that connects to the Microsoft Visual Studio Gallery to help a customer easily select and install extensions to Visual Studio from right inside the IDE. Since then, enterprise customers have frequently asked us to provide a way for Visual Studio to connect to a customer-managed website that contains a private collection of Visual Studio extensions. Today I’m excited to announce a new feature available in the Developer Preview version of VS that does just that, and offers you the same smooth, simple down...
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Quick Launch
In the past, finding things deep in the IDE has been a challenge. Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview introduces search abilities at almost every level of the product. Perhaps the biggest change is the introduction of Quick Launch which specifically addresses how to dig inside Visual Studio to find features you need. Let’s take a look. Shortcut: CTRL + ` [back quote] Versions: Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Quick Launch: Basic Use You can find Quick Launch in the upper right corner of the IDE: The most basic scenario for using Quick Launch is finding an item that you have forgotten (or don’t kno...
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Find & Replace
In Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview we’ve streamlined and modernized our vast array of Find experiences. Find and Replace is now a lightweight control within documents, delivering incremental search results as you type. The Find and Replace in Files dialog has been simplified while at the same time gaining additional functionality such as Find Next and Find Previous. Both Find experiences now let you use .NET Regular Expressions to perform complex search and replace operations, even across multiple lines. The new Find and Replace Control The new Find control sits at the top of the document as a search box....
Visual Studio BUILD sessions and Tips & Tricks Cheat Sheet
As I settle back into my desk after an exciting week at BUILD, I wanted to send a reminder that all of the sessions should be available for streaming on https://channel9.msdn.com/events/BUILD/BUILD2011. Since this is a Visual Studio blog, here are links to the main VS sessions at BUILD: For the Tips & Tricks talk, Phil and I created a “cheat sheet” of the features and tips we walked through in the session that you can download below. Thanks, Weston Hutchins Program Manager – VS Platform Tips and Tricks Cheat Sheet.docx
Addressing Visual Studio performance
Visual Studio’s performance continues to be a hot topic for a lot of customers. We hear you and are investing to improve the performance of the product in those areas that are important to you. There are two key parts to our approach: Collecting Customer Feedback We are working to make your feedback less ad hoc and give you a single place for feedback on Visual Studio Performance by implementing a UserVoice site specifically focused on performance. Please vote on the performance issues on the UserVoice site. This feedback will be incorporated into our plans as we prioritize our work. Instrumentat...
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Announced
Today in his keynote at BUILD, Jason Zander announced the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview, Microsoft® Visual Studio® 11 Developer Preview and Microsoft® Team Server Preview. If you are an MSDN subscriber, you can download the preview immediately via this link. For everyone else, Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11 will be generally available starting at 10:00 AM PDT on Friday. What’s New in the Visual Studio 11 IDE? A key goal with the Visual Studio 11 release was to improve the developer experience by focusing on the tasks that developers do the most frequently. In our...
How we use your PerfWatson data to identify Unresponsive areas
At the end of April, we released a telemetry system to monitor and report the performance issues that our customers face during their everyday use of the product. To start off, I would like to thank everyone who installed Visual Studio PerfWatson! These reports have provided valuable insight into where you are encountering issues, and have helped us prioritize our performance investments for the next version of Visual Studio (“vNext”). How are we using PerfWatson Data? As many of you have seen, PerfWatson monitors delays on the UI thread, and submits error reports on these delays with the user’s consent. Thes...
High school students at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment build a WP application from scratch in a week
By Alice LeeDeveloping a full-fledged Windows Phone app in one week – that’s pretty ambitious, right?Last week, at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE)’s weekly Summer Cyber Camp, a team of talented high and middle school students set out to do just that. I followed them for one week, documenting the process of creating their 3D game for Windows Phone 7 (WP7), called Color Break. Some of the students began with minimal programming experience while others had been using C# for a few years. At the end of the week, however, they were all capable of writing code, creating graphics, and inc...