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Visual Studio 2013 Diagnostics Investments

July 18, 2013 Jul 18, 2013 07/18/13
Daniel Moth
this post, and the posts it links to have been updated for VS 2013 RTM - enjoy! Hi, I am Daniel Moth, a Program Manager in Visual Studio. I don’t know about you, but I usually spend more time (and more fun time in fact!) in the debugger than I do in actually constructing my app. Perhaps that is the reason I also work on the Visual Studio...

Visual Studio Performance – Providing Feedback

July 2, 2013 Jul 2, 2013 07/2/13
Visual Studio Blog
With VS 2013 Preview now available for download, we’re excited to share how we’ve been using the feedback and data you’ve shared with us to drive performance improvements to Visual Studio.   In this first post, we’ll walk through how we’re prioritizing and scheduling performance investments based on your feedback, and outline the ...

What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 Preview for authoring Windows Store XAML apps

June 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013 06/27/13
Visual Studio Blog
Today at BUILD we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 and Blend that brings forward significant advances for authoring XAML-based Windows Store apps for Windows 8.1. This post describes some of the new experiences we are excited to bring to you. In follow up posts, we will describe each of these experiences in greater detail &...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 is here

April 4, 2013 Apr 4, 2013 04/4/13
Visual Studio Blog
We’re excited to announce that today, Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2) is now available for download. For an overview of the five areas of investments in VS2012.2 that we made across agile planning, quality enablement, Windows Store development, line-of-business development, and the general developer experience, please visit Soma’...

Introducing Windows Phone SDK 8.0

October 30, 2012 Oct 30, 2012 10/30/12
Visual Studio Blog
It gives us great pleasure to announce that today at //build/ we launched the Windows Phone 8 development story. We have enhanced the existing Visual Studio 2012 developer tools to support development of Windows Phone 8 apps optimized for a variety of resolutions and hardware, introduced ability to simulate and monitor the impact of real life ...

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 ...

Improved Toolbox Performance Delivers Highly Responsive Visual Studio 2012

July 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012 07/16/12
Visual Studio Blog
As mentioned in the previous performance post on Typing and Editing we would follow with a post on the improvements to Visual Studio 2012 from enhancements in the Toolbox. I would like to introduce Duke Kamstra and Chuck England from two teams in Visual Studio to describe to you the work done to improve responsiveness via the Toolbox. ...

Visual Studio 11 Performance: Improvements in Typing and Editing Responsiveness

May 25, 2012 May 25, 2012 05/25/12
Visual Studio Blog
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 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 ...