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Sign into the IDE with your Microsoft Account Move seamlessly between your machines Synchronize settings across your devices Get up and running faster

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Solution load IDE startup Responsiveness Improvements are driven by data from Customer Experience Improvement program

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Auto brace completion Move lines up and down Enhanced scrollbar New Navigate To experience Peek CodeLens Code Map enhancements Find Dialog integrated into editor Solution Explorer enhancements New project templates And so much more…

Biggest update is compatibility with versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 10 Support of ASP.NET MVC 5.1 Nuget SignalR IntelliTrace Viewer supports IE9

Universal Windows Apps (Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1) Azure Development TypeScript 1.0 Code Editor Enhancements for: SASS, LESS, & JSON Debugging and Analyzers Release Management

CodeLens support for Git repositories Style/Legend update for Code Map Debugging on multiple monitors support Debugging x86 applications in.Net Native (Project N)

Visual Studio now scans or rescans a solution and then updates the database much more quickly for large solutions. Therefore, the browsing process should be much more responsive, and you should experience fewer situations in which you are blocked when you perform browsing operations (such as Go To Definition) on large solutions. Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 enables you to collect and analyze GPU usage data for Windows applications by using the Performance and Diagnostics hub. This tool can help you determine whether CPU or GPU is the performance bottleneck of the application. You can also inspect timing data of each individual GPU event if supported graphics cards are present and the latest drivers are installed. JavaScript IntelliSense updates, JSON & HTML Editor Improvements, Azure WebJobs

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Web Forms Websites Web-pages Single-Page Apps MVCWeb APISignalR Services

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Now available for.NET! Access via Autos window or in the Immediate window ($ReturnValue) Can expand return value in the debugger

Common question: How did I get here? Supported for Store Apps, Web apps, Desktop apps in W8.1 Enhancements to the Call Stack and Tasks window Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio 2013

Provide reliable connection to Azure SQL DB Automatically retry/reconnect broken connection Provides great experience for connected devices It Just Works! No code or configuration changes other than installing.NET 4.5.1

During.NET 4.5 we released two components via NuGet: MEF (Microsoft.Composition) for web and Windows Store apps TPL Dataflow (Microsoft.Tpl.Dataflow) These (and new packages) are treated as any other.NET 4.5 component, i.e. are fully supported.NET (“in box”) System Composition TPL Dataflow Http Client Async Immutable Collections

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HttpResponse.AddOnSendingHeaders HttpResponseBase.AddOnSendingHeader lets you inspect and modify response headers and status code as the response is being flushed to the client app HttpResponse.HeadersWritten HttpResponseBase.HeadersWritten return Boolean values to indicate whether the response headers have been written. You can use these properties to make sure that calls to APIs such as HttpResponse.StatusCode succeeds. This enables shared hosting scenarios for ASP.NET applications.

SERVICESHTML5 Modern Apps Companion Mobile Direct-to-Customer LIGHTWEIGHT SERVICES LOB Apps Systems of Record Heavy-Duty Data Entry

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Vision

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Xamarin: Cross Platform Mobile Apps Version 3 Launched Acquired VS Division from Clarius Test Cloud for Every Device ITR Mobility: Multi-Platform Apps

Plan Develop Operate Release

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Automates deployments DEV QA INT PROD TFS

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TFS Drop Location RM ClientRM Web QADEV RM Server

REST APIs This is the first release that brings REST APIs to on-premises TFS. JSON REST APIs enable a lightweight way to work with Team Foundation Server from virtually any device, platform, or technology stack, including Windows, Android, iOS, Node.js, and others. You can create and query work items, queue a build, get recent team room messages, access source code, and accomplish almost any team or code management task.

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What’s new in VS 2013: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb386063(v=vs.120).aspx Visual Studio blog: blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/ Visual Studio Toolbox on Channel 9: channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox Visual Studio 2013 Updates MSDN ALM: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/fda2bad5(v=vs.120).aspx

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