1. What’s new in Visual Studio 11
11/19/ :51 AM
TOOL-820F
What’s new in Visual Studio 11
Jason Zander
Corporate Vice President
Microsoft Corporation
© 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

2. Agenda An overview of Visual Studio 11
Tools to build for Windows, Cloud & Web
Application Lifecycle Management
Recap
You’ll leave with examples of how to
Use Visual Studio 11 to build compelling Windows & Web applications
How ALM can help you deliver great software

3. Visual Studio 11 Experiences and Promises

4. experiences promises integration productivity platforms user
developer
experience
team
experience
experiences
integration
productivity
promises
platforms

5. The Visual Studio Family

6. Covering //build/ end to end
Windows
Windows 8 Metro style applications
Existing Windows apps
Web/Cloud
ASP.NET
Azure
ALM
Team Foundation Server/Team Foundation Service
Collaboration and quality

7. Building for Windows

8. Building Windows Applications

9. Visual Studio 11 is the tool for Windows 8
Metro style applications
Visual Basic, C#, C++ & HTML5/JS
Windows desktop applications
Windows Drivers

10. Windows 8 Metro style applications
New designer Available today!
Built on shared architecture with Expression Blend
Key features
Object creation
Layout
Property editing
Create and reuse resources
Configurable design-time
XAML editor with IntelliSense

11. Expression Blend for HTML
Authoring of Metro style HTML Apps for Windows 8
Design-centric
Native HTML / CSS
Built for Windows 8 applications, not web sites
Visual authoring with dynamic, JavaScript-generated UI
No platform abstractions
Focus on Concepts, not Syntax
Code – Design Workflow with Visual Studio

12. Core advances for Visual Studio 11
IDE productivity improvements
Local, simulator and remote debugging
Integrated application packaging
Other topics
Project compatibility
Async
Localization
Unit testing
Profiling

13. Windows Metro style apps
demo
Windows Metro style apps
Building Windows Metro style applications

14. DirectX applications New templates for Metro style DirectX games
C++ AMP
Integrated game asset management
Models
Textures
IDE support for HLSL
IntelliSense
Debugging
Integrated graphical debugging
Links GPU debugging with your actual game source and assets

15. New tooling for building DirectX applications
demo
DirectX Applications
New tooling for building DirectX applications

16. Windows driver development
Modernize driver development
Move to an integrated environment based on Visual Studio
Simplify common driver development tasks (ex: kernel debugging, driver signing and deployment, etc.)
Driver-specific functionality is delivered via a Windows Driver Kit (WDK) add-on pack to Visual Studio
Move quality “upstream” in the development process
Integrate quality tools and tests into Visual studio
Ease creation of more reliable, better performing drivers
Enhance driver development frameworks

17. Recap Windows Metro style applications DirectX Applications
Visual Basic, C#, C++ and HTML5/JS
DirectX Applications
DIGIT/PIX
Windows drivers
479 - A Lap Around Visual Studio 11 Express for Metro style Apps using C++
737 - Metro Style Apps in XAML: What You Need to Know
740 - Metro Style HTML5 Apps from Start to Finish

18. Building for the Cloud & Web

19. Building Windows Azure Applications
Windows Azure SDK 1.5
Service Bus v2 with queues
Profile applications running in Windows Azure
Create ASP.NET MVC3 Web Roles
Manage multiple service configurations in one cloud project
Improved validation of Windows Azure packages
Add deployment projects to existing ASP.NET, MVC or WCF projects via a right click

20. Use HTML5 the way that works best for you
If you've been programming with HTML & JavaScript, you'll be right at home with Windows 8
IE10 offers the fastest, richest standards based browsing experience
Visual Studio 11 has the best of breed editors for CSS, JavaScript; debugging and profiling
ASP.NET provides a set of controls and frameworks that make HTML5 development even more productive and accessible

21. New HTML & CSS tool support
IDE Enhancements for HTML & CSS
New HTML5 & CSS snippets
Extract to user control
Match end-tag when editing start-tag
Smart indent
Outlining
Comment/uncomment support
Better IntelliSense
Auto reduce
IntelliSense for code nuggets within attributes
Additional IntelliSense triggers

22. Better JavaScript tools
Improved IntelliSense:
Performance – Built on top of IE’s JavaScript engine  
New features:
Go To Definition
Overloads for methods (using new Xml comment <signature>)
Implicit references
Extensibility – user can provide a JavaScript extension that can modify the IntelliSense   
Editing:
Brace matching and highlighting
Outlining

23. Making diagnostics easier
DOM Explorer
Inspect & modify the live DOM in IE or WWA
Style tracing for CSS
Layout debugging  
JavaScript console
Interactive REPL console against the page
Console API
Error reporting from the host
Syntax, parsing & network issues
Single and multi-line input with history

24. Extending and improving ASP.NET
Mobile
MVC4 will allow automatically detect on phone
Mobile optimized views / pages : can distinguish between slate and phone
Support JQuery mobile; mobile starter set; easier to theme mark-up for mobile and desktop
Mobile NuGet will allow mobile support
Language & Controls
Supporting full ECMAScript v5
Better experience for using JQuery
JQuery controls : Datagrid etc being built by Microsoft
Web Platform
MVC app support pre-built AJAX views : client side paging, sorting
MVC will support webforms
Debug while running; can select something that is running and have it highlight where code is etc
Added SEO capabilities

25. Page Inspector
A new tool Visual Studio 11 wave tool for troubleshooting of ASP.NET Web Sites and Applications
Bring together browser tools, ASP.NET, and source code into one integrated troubleshooting experience
Easily diagnose issues in Web Application Projects and Web Sites
Pinpoint the source code behind a browser selection in just one click
Reverse engineer HTML/CSS/JS in the browser to actual source files in just one click

26. Building Web applications with Visual Studio 11 and .NET Framework 4.5
demo
Web applications
Building Web applications with Visual Studio 11 and .NET Framework 4.5

27. Recap Windows Azure Applications HTML5 JavaScript ASP.NET
796 - ASP.NET 4.5 loves HTML5, CSS 3 & JavaScript
803 - Progressively enable the mobile web with ASP.NET MVC 4, HTML5 and jQuery Mobile
850 - Getting Started with Windows Azure

28. Application Lifecycle Management

29. ALM is for everyone
Application Lifecycle Management isn’t just for large companies– The Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions (over process & tools)
Working software (over comprehensive documentation)
Customer collaboration (over contract negotiation)
Responding to change (over following a plan)

30. What Matters – Creating Value
DEVELOP
Idea to working software
OPERATE
Incident to Resolution
Product
Backlog
Requirements
Monitor
Misunderstood Requirements
Sprint
Conflicting Priorities
Losing Focus
Ops
Backlog
Working Software

31. New ALM capabilities in Visual Studio 11
Web-based project management tools
IntelliTrace in your production environments
“My Work” and code review features
Code quality
Code clone
Unit testing

32. Application Lifecycle Management
demo
Application Lifecycle Management
How Visual Studio 11 enables teams to deliver great software

33. Recap Application Lifecycle Management Applies to everyone
Team Foundation Service
More tools Web-based
Production IntelliTrace “My Work” and code review features
Focus on code quality
Better, more flexible unit testing
818 - Taking your Application Lifecycle Management to the Cloud with the Team Foundation Service
793 - Working on an Agile Team with Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11
811 - Developer Collaboration with Team Foundation Server 11

34. Visual Studio 11: Experience & Promise
Building for Windows
Building for the Cloud & Web
Application Lifecycle Management

35. Call to action Get the releases
Windows Developer Preview broadly available (
Windows Azure Toolkit (
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (
Sign up for your Team Foundation Service account
Send us your feedback

36. Related Sessions
816 - Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic
833 - What's New in Visual Studio 11 for Application Lifecycle Management
834 - What's New in .NET Framework 4.5
835 - Writing modern C++ code: How C++ has evolved over the years

37. 11/19/ :51 AM
© 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
© 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.