#VS2013Launch summary

• Continuous regular updates: Update 4 for Visual Studio 2012 released today http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2872520 

• Developers are moving to the cloud: don’t need to worry about infrastructure, easier way to get started 

• Developers are making everything happen 

• The world of software developers is better than ever before 

• People-centric IT: enable secure access to data and application no matter of the device 

• The data generated is increasing exponentially 

• Transform the data center: infrastructure is no longer a bottleneck 

• Build modern applications: Visual Studio and .Net come into play, integrated end-to-end development environment for cloud, devices 

• Official launch of Visual Studio 2013 and .Net 4.5.1 announced 

• Sample project also available on MSDN: MyCompanySuite 

• Debugging: 

  • Async calls: 

    • Local debugging experience in Visual Studio across the local machine and Azure: attach debugger to Azure, part of the new Windows Azure SDK 2.2 

    • Async capabilities in Entity Framework 

    • Async execution added to the Call Stack 

• Performance and analysis hub: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2013/07/12/performance-and-diagnostics-hub-in-visual-studio-2013.aspx 

• Visual Studio Online announced, available today at visualstudio.com 

  • http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/2013-nov-13-vso.aspx 

  • http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/11/13/visual-studio-2013-launch-announcing-visual-studio-online.aspx 

  • Set of finished developer services that run on Azure and extend the capabilities of Visual Studio 

  • Free for teams of up to 5 users or with an MSDN subscription 

  • Cloud-based subscription 

  • Status of project, bugs, builds 

  • Access to source code with GIT and TFS integration 

  • Open project directly in Visual Studio 

  • Visual Studio Settings available also online 

  • Code name “Monaco”: Development environment in the cloud directly in the browser 

    • Erich Gamma from the Gang Of Four on the team behind Monaco 

    • Light-weight for a certain set of quick tasks 

    • Today: Work on Azure websites 

    • Explore, search, run code 

    • Navigate code: peak experience on hover 

    • IntelliSense 

    • GIT integration: view changes, edit, commit to local repository, push to online repository or even directly to the productive website 

    • “Monaco” implemented all in TypeScript 

    • Browser-based development environment: running in any modern browser and any device 

    • http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-Online-Monaco 

Cloud Development = Windows Azure + Visual Studio => Better together 

• Azure deployed in data centers around the world 

  • Data center location can be selected 

• MSDN free credits for Azure, part of the MSDN subscription 

  • $50/Professional 

  • $100/Premium 

  • $150/Ultimate 

• Easy to spin off and start using Visual Studio 2013 in Windows Azure 

• Secure private networking capability inside Windows Azure in which only your machines can join and no one outside has access to this private network 

Web development 

• Commitment to open source: Web essentials, ASP.NET 

• Commitment to “One ASP.NET” 

• Nuget: open source packet management system 

• Shipping Bootstrap 

• Multiple Emulators included 

• Multiple browsers set as default inside Visual Studio: all default browsers launched simultaneously 

• CSS-Editor: browser support on hover 

• Real-time communication: Hosting SignalR inside visual Studio: visual Studio knows which browsers are connected to Visual Studio, pushing the Refresh commands to the browsers 

  • two-way: inject in HTML, send commands from browser to Visual Studio 

  • live content editing directly in the browser, the code is changing in visual Studio automatically 

• SignalR notifies connected clients that a change has happened 

• Live debugging in Azure Websites: connect to production sites directly from the debugger in Visual Studio 

• Portable Class Libraries: native apps written in C3 running on iPad, Android,… 

   

• Extend the reach of the mobile application to a great variety of device platforms 

  • Xamarin partnership for the .Net developer community: http://blog.xamarin.com/microsoft-and-xamarin-partner-globally/ 

  • Tools that integrate in Visual Studio 

  • MSDN Subscriber: 90 day trial, free training for Xamarin training, discount on the Xamarin license 

Windows 8.1 apps 

• Performance optimization

  • Visual Studio: Retarget Windows Store projects to windows 8.1 

  • New technology: 

    • Optimized for better performance 

    • Compile .Net code to native code 

    • Compiler optimization 

  • Example: Fresh Paint 

    • Loaded faster with the new technology 

• Productivity enhancements

  • IntelliSense improvement in XAML: includes fuzzy matching, camel casing 

  • Peak definition: inline definition of where code is defined 

  • HTML, JavaScript 

    • New HTML UI responsiveness analyzer inside Visual Studio 

      • DOM events: breakdown of where the time is spent to render the UI 

      • Helping to choose optimization 

• Release Management for Visual Studio announced: InRelease acquired and integrated inside Visual Studio 2013