Exploring Visual Studio 2010

Exploring Visual Studio 2010
Sven Vanoirbeek | mshelp.be
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Overview
Visual Studio 2010 IDE changes
Architecture possibilities
New debugging experience
What’s new for testers?
Extending Visual Studio
Other new features
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Visual Studio IDE Changes

Visual Studio IDE changes
WPF Powered UI
Pin your project
Zooming
Multi screen development
Improved multi targeting
Quicker add reference
Highlight references
Improved Intellisense
Improved toolbox
Faster searching: Navigate to
Box selection / entry
More code generation
Consumefirst
SSMS inside VS2010
CallHierarchy
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WPF Powered UI
Chrome is handled by WPF
Completelynewtexteditor
Easier to createextensions (adornments)
More possibilities
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Pin your project
Pin a project in recent projectson start page
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Zooming
Zooming in the texteditor
CRTL + Scroller
Adjustsizemanually in code file
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Multi screen developement
Easier to dock windows
Put your windows wherever you want
Everything is floatable
Even outside of Visual Studio
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Improved multi targeting
Previousframeworks back to .NET 2.0
Filtered project list basedon target framework
Filtered toolbox basedon target framework
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Quickeraddreference
Add project bydefault
Other thread loads .NET and COM libraries
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Highlight references
Highlights types/variables/methods/.. used in code
Navigate to eachreference via CTRL + SHIFT UP/DOWN
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ImprovedIntellisense
Partialstringmatching
BuildlocatesStringBuilderclass
Pascal case searching
SB locatesStringBuilderclass
2 to 5 timesfaster
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Improved toolbox
Search forcontrolswhiletyping
Tab to navigate to next search result
Filtered toolbox wouldbenice
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Faster searching: Navigate to
Easier and fastersearching
Searcheseverything: classes, functions, different file types, controls, everything..
Edit -> Navigate to || CTRL + ,
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Box selection / entry
Add something on multiple lines
Click ALT and select your region
Not so useful
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More code generation
VS2008: Generatemethods
VS2010: Generate more (classes, structs,interfaces,enums, methods)
Greatfor TDD
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Consumefirst
Stop auto complete fromIntelliSense
CTRL + ALT + SPACE
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SSMS inside VS2010
SQL Management studio inside VS2010
Run T-SQL straight from VS2010
IncludingIntellisense
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CallHierarchy
View calls to member
View callfrommember
Drill down
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Architecturepossibilities
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Architecturepossibilities
DGML
Architectureexplorer
New diagrams
Dependencygraph
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DGML
Direct GraphMarkupLanguage
All graphs in VS2010 are built using DGML
New way of visualizingthings
Easy to do ityourself, it’s XML
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Architectureexplorer
Explore the complete architecture
Assemblies, files, types, members, calls
Creategraphsfromselection
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New diagrams
Class diagram
Sequence diagram
Use case diagram
Activity diagram
Component diagram
Layer diagram
Direct Graph Document
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Dependencygraph
View dependencies, calls
Betterunderstand complex architecture
Dependencygraphbyassembly, namespace, class, custom (filtered view)
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New debuggingexperience
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New debugging experience
Collaborative debugging
Breakpoint enhancements
Datatips
Historical debugging aka IntelliTrace
CLR4 crash dump debugging
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Collaborative debugging
Share debugging state amongst developers
Easier to reproduce bugs
Easier to explain where the problem resides
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Breakpoint enhancements
Label breakpoints
Easier to track breakpoints
Reuse labels
Filter breakpoints
Import/Export breakpoints
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Datatips
Floatinglocals,watches
Pin expressions
Import/Export datatips
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Historical debugging aka IntelliTrace
Collecting historical data dynamically
Events and call information
Start to exit
Stored in .tdlog files
Go back in time
Easier to reproduce bugs
Better relationship between tester and developer
Integration with Test and Lab manager and TFS
What about application performance?
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CLR4 crash dump debugging
Load dump files of CLR4 application
Performdebuggingon dump file
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What’snewfor testers?
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What’s new for testers?
Microsoft Test/Lab manager
Defining Testing Effort
Create and Run Manual Tests
Record Test Steps for Playback
Create and Run Automated UI Tests
Collect and Add Diagnostic Data to Bugs
Impact analysis
Find Tests to Rerun based on Code Changes
Testing Progress Reporting
Performance and Stress Testing
Not covered in this presentation
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New extension manager
VSIX extension package
Different extension projects
Customizing the start page
MP3 player for VS2010
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New extension manager
Supports MEF components, VSPackages, project templates and item template
Download extensions from Visual Studio Gallery
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VSIX extension package
Container model forextensions
Based on Open PackagingConvention (OPC), a a ZIP package
Replacement for .VSI (Visual Studio Installer)
VS2010 scans extension folder at startup
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Customizing the start page
Addcustom WPF user controls to the start page
Integrate Company design guidelines, RSS, branding, etc..
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Different extensionprojects
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MP3 player for VS2010
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Othernew features
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Other new features
Support for parallel programming
Better support for WPF development
Better and more code analysis
Better performance tuning, profiling
Better support forthreading
Betterintegrationwith TFS
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Not covered in this presentation
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Questions?
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Exploring Visual Studio 2010

by Sven Vanoirbeek on Apr 26, 2010

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