Visual Studio 2013 final has been released: new features.
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Now good news for Dot Net developers: recently the Visual Studio 2013 final has been released plus the final releases of .NET 4.5.1 and Team Foundation Server 2013.
For MSDN members it is available for downloads at
http://click.email.microsoftemail.com/?qs=bf6749342e307f47002945ac1326b07dfbee607c1e50031df771b5958cd5fb2d3c948b5e400a3668
The history of the previous versions of Visual Studio.NET:
1. Visual Studio.NET 2002
2. Visual Studio.NET 2003
3. Visual Studio.NET 2005
4. Visual Studio.NET 2008
5. Visual Studio.NET 2010
6. Visual Studio.NET 2012
The brief list of the new features:
Async Debugging Improvement, including enhancements to Call Stack and Task Window, it's also support for Store Apps, Web Apps and Desktop Apps in Windows 8.1
Now Visual Studio include the edit and continue during debugging in 64-bit.
Method Return Value Inspection, now we can access the return value of a function while debugging in Auto Windows as well as Immediate Window.
Some Windows Store Development Enhancements:
• Convert System.IO.Stream to IRandomAccessStream, allow much easier to interop with exsiting .NET code
• Better exception support for WinRT APIs (System.Exception.Message, System.Exception.StackTrace)
• WinRT type enhancements (Nullable value types in WinRT structs)
Entity Framework/ ADO.NET Connection Resiliency
• Provide reliable connection to Azure Databases
• Automatically retry/reconnect broken connection
• Provide great experience for connected devices
ASP.NET App Suspension
• Enable low latency, high density websites for private cloud.
• Shipping as a part of IIS 8.5 in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview
• Provisioned through the Idle Worker Process Page-out capability in IIS
On demand Large Object Heap Compaction
Multi-Core JIT Improvements
• Minimize application startup time on multi-core CPUs
• Now support for ASP.NET websites
• Enabled automatically for ASP.NET app
Also there a some improvements in the IDE itself, such as
• Colorize the icons in Solution Explorer
• New design for Team Explorer
• Scroll bar map mode
Some improvements in web developments:
One ASP.NET
• Unified Dialog
• Scaffloding for everyone
• WebForms, MVC, WebAPI all together
• OWIN which new Extensible Identity System
Browser Links allow IDE connected with the browser via SignalR hub
New HTML editors
JavaScript & CSS editors improvements
Productivity features include automatic bracket completion, the ability to move code lines or blocks using keyboard shortcuts, and in-line navigation are now built-in. In addition, Visual Studio 2013 includes a new Team Explorer with an enhanced Home page that provides easier navigation to team collaboration features, including the ability to undock Pending Changes and Builds into a separate window.
