1. Visual Studio Advanced Features
Chris Bugge | Hayley Lowe | Taylor Willis

2. Overview Development Tools Keyboard Shortcuts Downloading Extensions
Extension Examples: Macros and Resharper
Team Foundation Server and Features
Questions

3. Development Tools
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE)
Source code editor
Build automation tools
Debugger

4. Development Tools Visual Studio Net Beans Eclipse
Pros
Intellisense
Auto code formatting
Extensibility
Compiles code
Cons
CPU Hog
Complex GUI
Very expensive
Net Beans
Pros
Extensibility
Free
Compiles code
Cons
Error prone
Bloated
Eclipse
Pros
Language Extensibility
Free
Compiles code
Cons
Steep learning curve

5. Keyboard Shortcuts Quickly cycle between windows
Visually cycle between windows
Toggle fullscreen mode
Tab the selected code backwards
Removes all beginning tabs and spaces
Auto format your code + + + + + + , + ,

6. Keyboard Shortcuts Opens code file (if you use a separate file)
Temporarily hides Intellisense menu
Comments out selected text
Un-comments selected text
Changes selected lowercase text to uppercase
Changes selected uppercase text to lowercase + , + , + + +

7. Keyboard Shortcuts Lets you search the for a specific string
Lets you simultaneously search and replace
Replaces next (when in search and replace)
Replaces all (when in search and replace)
Cycles through clipboard ring (really cool!)
Jump to specific line in the code + + + + + + +

8. And so many more! A list of 119 keyboard shortcuts for Visual Studio
Dock/undock the tab
Backspaces a word at a time
Deletes word to the right of the cursor
Opens file in the designated web browser
Saves all files + , + + + + + +
And so many more! A list of 119 keyboard shortcuts for Visual Studio

9. Downloading Extensions
Tools > Extensions and Updates
Search online for “macro” (or whatever extension you are looking for)
Download, install, restart Visual Studio

10. Extension Example: Macros

11. Extension Example: Macros

12. Extension Example: Macros

13. Extension Example: ReSharper

14. Extension Example: ReSharper

15. Extension Example: ReSharper

16. Extension Example: ReSharper

17. Extension Example: ReSharper

18. Extension Example: ReSharper

19. Extension Example: ReSharper

20. Extension Example: ReSharper

21. Extension Example: ReSharper

22. Extension Example: ReSharper

23. Extension Example: ReSharper

24. Team Foundation Server
Application lifecycle management hub for Visual Studio
Collaboration in the development of projects
Visual Studio Online
Windows Azure
No Setup
Lacks SQL Reporting / BI and SharePoint
-TFS is an application lifecycle management hub for Visual Studio
-It was first released in 2005 and the newest 2015 version was just realised April 29, 2015
-The primary purpose of Team Foundation is to enable collaboration on a team to make it easier to build a product, or complete a project.
-Team Foundation enhances team communication, tracks work status, supports team roles, enacts the team process, and integrates team tools
-Basically a place where all team members can work on projects in visual studio together. Code together and get revisions from others, see versions on code and projects before and after changes are made.
-You can either download it and use it with Visual Studio that you have downloaded on your computer like what we use or you can use it on Visual Studio online which I am not going to go into much in depth
-Visual Studio Online requires no setup you just have to sign in with your Microsoft ID
- It works through the Microsoft Web Services Windows Azure
- Free for basic usage but not free for more advanced functions
-The only major downsides compared to the visual studio downloaded on your desktop is that VS online lacks SQL reporting and also Business Intelligence and Sharepoint
-Like the Solution explorer that we are used to using in VS once your have the Team Foundation Server setup you use the Team Explorer
-All team members work with team projects by using Team Explorer in Visual Studio
-Team Explorer connects to one Team Foundation Server and displays team projects from that server.
-By using Team Explorer, every team member can find and update work items, view reports, manage documents, and work with product builds

26. Hayley's Visual Studio Online
-Add new team fill in the info, as you can see you can do team foundatino server or Git the differences are →
-Go into Visual Studio and paste the visual studio online URL into the connect to server
Hayley's Visual Studio Online

28. Team Foundation Server Features
Version Control
Collaborate and maintain control of team projects
Check in, check out, manage versions ect.
Alerts
Work Item Tracking
Keeping track of defects, tasks ect.
Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project
-First I wanted to mention that it is easy to get your code into the TFS you can just drag it in to the solution control and then you just have to check in and save the pending changes then you are able to submit requests to other team members to look at your code ect
-The reason that you do check ins to do things in TFS is because then everything is documented and it will say when and who did different things in the team project.
-Adding on to that one of the cool features of TFS is version control:
-When you go in to edit a project you will check in and make revisions or look at code and then check out.
-Keeps previous versions of your work and has a side by side comparison screen to see what changes have been made
-This is very useful for if you get stuck and there are problems with your code because you can see what it looked like before and possibly get back to a previous version if you got too deep into trouble.
-There are two primary roles that come to play in the Version Control -The contributor and the administrator
- A contributor typically uses version control for adding, deleting, and modifying files, maintaining a historical record of all changes
-The administrator manages s the version control server by maintaining the integrity of data stored on it. The administrator manages the workgroups, permissions, setup, and check-in policies
-Team Foundation provides alerts that are sent to you through when something changes on the team project. Alerts can be sent when the status of a work item changes, a check-in occurs, a build is completed, or when a build status changes
-Another feature of TFS is Work Item Tracking
-The work item tracking feature keeps track of defects that the projects have had after being run and debugged
-It is designed to assist software development teams to manage their work and software defect tracking.
-All work items have a running history that logs all activity. Whenever a work item changes, whether the item's status changes to closed or notes are updated with new information, all the changes are logged so that anyone can review the complete history of activity on a work item at any time.
-Work items are stored in a database on the Team Foundation server; however, copies of work items can be imported and tracked in Microsoft Project or Microsoft Excel. For example, task work items can be imported into Microsoft Project and organized to load balance work for team members. Also, bug work items can be imported into Microsoft Excel to create a list of top priority bugs that must be fixed. Finally, updates can be made to the offline copies of work items in Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel and published back to the work item database keeping offline work items synchronized with the server

29. Team Foundation Server Features
Team Build
Catch bugs in early development
Build, test and deploy your code
Reporting
Status and trend information
Stored in data warehouse
Changes, check-ins, stats on builds, test results
-Another Key feature of TFS are the Team Builds:
-Build managers can synchronize the sources, compile the application, run associated unit tests, perform code analysis, release builds on a file server, and publish build reports.
a team can run daily builds and post them to a shared server.
-Team Foundation Build also provides build reports on the status and quality of each build
- Build definitions are created and managed by a Team Foundation Build administrator
Build Definition Provides an interface that lets the user define the build steps and build parameters needed for the user's builds. The builds can be defined to be on-demand, rolling, or continuous integration where each check-in causes a build to be queued according to its priority.
Build Queue Provides a queue for the requested builds. Each build has an associated priority and the builds are built in accordance to the priority and the date/time position in the queue.
Build Execution Leverages the build definition to build the product and generate build outputs. It runs all build steps, including the execution of test code; it updates work items; and it calculates the build metrics.
Build Report Provides a view into the execution of the build. The report lists the overall build status including detailed build steps; work items resolved, code changes, and summary of test execution. The build reports are viewable from Build Explorer. For more information, see Understanding the Team Foundation Build Explorer and Working with Team Foundation Build Reports.
- you can create builds to run any time that a team member checks in and changes the code or also create builds manually
Reports are stored in a database on the Team Foundation server, and they track status and trend information over time on a team project. The data for the reports is stored in a data warehouse and collected from the operational databases on Team Foundation server. Types of information that can be tracked in reports are work item changes, check-ins, status on product builds, and test results. Also, cross-project reports can compare historical data for multiple projects
-Can also see graphical reports → several different types of graphs to choose from you just click the information you want included on the graph and it will graph it in the type of graph you choose · Go into your test plan and create a chart that shows projects that passed, failed ect
o Group by, sort ect

30. Team Rooms Physical team to the virtual world Persistent Chat
Shows requests, check ins, code review
Access to code & projects
· It is like a chat room
· Persistent chat à look what happened in different days
· Can get full details about certain work items and you click and it goes right to it
· When things happen within TSF, code review requests, check ins, requests it show sin the team room
· Creat rooms by clicking on the new button and then adding people you want into it

32. Questions?