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May 29, 2012 May 29, 2012 05/29/12
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As we’re closing in on the final designs for Visual Studio 11 I want to thank you again for your feedback. I want to pass along that we are still internalizing your feedback and actively working on the next Visual Studio 11 milestones. The purpose of this post is to follow up on a common request relating to the earlier RC preview post. ...

Visual Studio 11 Performance: Improvements in Typing and Editing Responsiveness

May 25, 2012 May 25, 2012 05/25/12
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After the beta release, we published several posts on the performance improvements in Visual Studio 11. Since the beta release, we have made a number of additional enhancements, continuing our quest to improve the performance of Visual Studio. The performance work done between beta and the upcoming RC was substantial and covered many aspects ...

Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in RC

May 8, 2012 May 8, 2012 05/8/12
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With the release of Visual Studio 11 Beta back in February of this year, we introduced changes to the user experience based on two core design principles, the first being to give you more space for your content and the second being to draw more focus to that content. Since the debut of these changes there’s been significant community ...

Improving Find & Replace in Visual Studio 11 Beta

April 11, 2012 Apr 11, 2012 04/11/12
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In our previous blog post, we introduced the new Find control we are building in Visual Studio.  Our goal was to streamline and modernize the vast array of Find experiences and provide a lightweight mechanism to search within documents. With the huge number of responses we received from the Developer Preview, we knew that our top priority for...

JavaScript Debugging Enhancements

April 10, 2012 Apr 10, 2012 04/10/12
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Visual Studio 11 Beta introduces a first class JavaScript development experience and provides a rich toolset for developing Windows Metro style apps. Debugging is a crucial part of that toolset. In this post I am going to focus on just some of the new scenarios and enhancements we’ve added to JavaScript debugging experience for this release...

Improving how we update Visual Studio

April 6, 2012 Apr 6, 2012 04/6/12
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A common piece of feedback we’ve gotten is to make it easier to find and acquire bug fixes and updates – basically, how we can bring more improvements to more customers, more promptly, and more easily. As you can imagine, there are many factors to balance here, ranging from the kinds of updates we should offer, how frequently we should ...

Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

March 28, 2012 Mar 28, 2012 03/28/12
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About two years ago we wrote a blog post entitled Why does Visual Studio 2010 convert my projects? One of the strong pieces of feedback we received was that you wanted to be able to work on your projects using both the current and previous version of VS. We are delighted to announce that Visual Studio 11 will allow you to easily round-trip ...

The Visual Studio 11 Beta Survey is Live!

March 21, 2012 Mar 21, 2012 03/21/12
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It’s been just 3 weeks since we released Visual Studio 11 Beta, and we’d like to hear what you think! Let us know your impressions by taking the Visual Studio 11 Beta survey.We do these surveys with most of our releases, and they help us gauge how we are doing with core areas such as performance, reliability, and quality. In this ...

Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance Part #3

March 19, 2012 Mar 19, 2012 03/19/12
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Welcome back to the 3rd and final part of the Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance series. This week’s topic is Debugging. As I mentioned in the 1st post debugging is a key component in your continuous interaction with Visual Studio and we heard from you that the compile, edit and debug cycle had hiccups and was sluggish. I would like to ...