Tag : JavaScript

Overview of Related Files in Blend

July 12, 2013 Jul 12, 2013 07/12/13

Related Files is a feature available in both Blend for Visual Studio 2012 and Blend for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. In this post, I’ll describe how this feature works and how to make the best of it when designing your Windows Store app in HTML.When you are performing styling-related tasks in an HTML document, it is common (if not, ...

JavaScript memory analysis for Windows Store apps in Visual Studio 2012

January 28, 2013 Jan 28, 2013 01/28/13

Visual Studio Blog

In Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, we introduced a JavaScript memory analysis tool for Windows Store apps to help developers, you, build apps that do not leak memory, so that these apps are more reliable, potentially more responsive and therefore have the potential to be more highly rated by customers. You will find the memory analysis tool ...

NuGet for Windows Store App Developers

October 10, 2012 Oct 10, 2012 10/10/12

Visual Studio Blog

In Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 you’ll see that we have included the popular NuGet package manager by default and customized it to include a Windows 8 packages feed that presents you a filtered list of NuGet packages for use in developing your Windows Store apps.In case you haven’t heard of NuGet - it’s a ...

New Visual Studio 2012 Debugging Features for the Windows 8 App Lifecycle Model

August 23, 2012 Aug 23, 2012 08/23/12

Visual Studio Blog

Windows 8 brings a new app lifecycle model, in which Windows Store apps are automatically managed for the user. These apps always feel alive, even though they never run when they’re off the screen. This provides great benefits for power consumption and battery life.Here are a few related blog posts we recommend for background reading on ...

A look ahead at the Visual Studio 11 product lineup and platform support

May 18, 2012 May 18, 2012 05/18/12

Visual Studio Blog

Today, we want to share the final product lineup and specifications you can expect to see for the next release of Visual Studio. This also includes system requirements and platform you can develop for with Visual Studio 11.Product LineupIn addition to the product line up announced previously we will also be releasing Visual Studio Express ...

JavaScript Debugging Enhancements

April 10, 2012 Apr 10, 2012 04/10/12

Visual Studio Blog

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...

Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance Part #3

March 19, 2012 Mar 19, 2012 03/19/12

Visual Studio Blog

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 ...

Microsoft Windows Simulator Rotation and Resolution Emulation

November 4, 2011 Nov 4, 2011 11/4/11

Visual Studio Blog

The Windows Simulator is a tool provided in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview that helps debugging Metro style applications. Its main purpose is to enable debugging when developers want to test how their applications respond to the new Metro style capabilities without having a device that supports those capabilities. It is implemented as a ...

Debugging Contracts using Windows Simulator

November 1, 2011 Nov 1, 2011 11/1/11

Cathy Sullivan

All of you might be pretty busy discovering what Windows 8 has to offer. Today I will introduce you to debugging Contracts, one of the cool features in Windows 8.It is hard to debug contracts when you are debugging locally because they disappear as soon as the focus is lost. So, as you hit a breakpoint in Visual Studio for your app, the ...