New in the Visual Studio 2012 IDE

New in the Visual Studio 2012
IDE
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Navigating Code and UI
Changes
• Demo


A Quick Tour of the IDE
• A new look and feel
• Less chrome
• Focus on code
• Minimized toolbar


Finding and Setting Options
• Select Tools | Options
• Literally hundreds of settings
• Environment
• Projects
• Text editor
• More…
• New color themes (Light and Dark)


Exploring Solutions
• Solution Explorer organizes development
artifacts
• Solutions hold files, folders, and projects
• Projects hold files, folders, and references
• Projects produce assemblies


Navigating the IDE with
QuickLaunch
• QuickLaunch makes it easy to dig deep into IDE
features, saving time
• Shortcut: Ctrl + Q
• Four Categories
• Most Recently Used : @mru quick
• Commands: @menu Find Edit
• Options: @opt Text Editor C# General
• Documents: @doc Program.cs


Using Code-Focused Rapid
Application Development
• Demo


Navigating Code
• Call Hierarchy shows code callers and callees
• Navigate To helps quickly find/move to code
• Highlighting References shows matching code
• Live Semantic Errors show errors/warnings


Adding Snippets
• Quickly add common code blocks
• Abbreviations expand to forms
• Surround-With puts blocks around code


Refactoring Code
• Improve design without breaking code
• Rename
• Extract Method
• Encapsulate Field
• Extract Interface
• Remove Parameters
• Reorder Parameters


Extending the Environment and
NuGet
• Demo


Extension Manager
• Easy way to install 3rd party Add-Ins
• One-Click install
• Be informed of updates


NuGet
• Adds assembly references to projects
• Can install/uninstall via UI or built-in
Powershell console
• Add NuGet via the Extension Manager


Setting Up Libraries and
Projects
• Demo


Compatibility with VS 2010
• Can round-trip for many project types
• Exceptions:
• Windows Phone 7 support only in VS 2010
• Windows 8 support only in VS 2012 and on
Windows 8
• .NET 4.5 support only on VS 2012


Understanding Profiles
• Profiles constrain a project to a subset of that
project type
• Windows 8
• Windows Phone 8
• Client
• Full
• Client is subset of Full


Portable Libraries
• Subset of .NET supporting multiple profiles
• Least common denominator among profiles
• Can select which Framework profiles to target


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