This document summarizes new features in Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013. It discusses improvements to the XAML editor, debugging experience, and Team Explorer. New features include signing into Visual Studio, notifications center, code lenses, peek definition, and enhancements for ASP.NET, web development, and TypeScript. New capabilities in TFS 2013 include portfolio backlogs, tags, team rooms, charts, support for Git, and web-based code review. The document concludes with a brief look at future releases and capabilities like Windows Azure Workstation.

1. Danijel Malik
Visual Studio ALM MVP
What’s new in
Visual Studio 2013
and Team Foundation Server 2013

2. Danijel Malik
• Solution Architect at SSW (Sydney, Australia)
• Visual Studio ALM MVP
• Loves:
• Visual Studio & TFS
• Scrum
• XAML
• ASP.NET MVC
• Needs painkillers ever since JavaScript is mainstream
danijel@artifis.si | danijelmalik@ssw.com.au
@DanijelMalik

3. Q&A.

4. A trip down memory lane
.NET 1.0
Visual C#
Visual Basic.NET
Web Forms
Windows Forms
.NET 1.1
Compact Framework
Mobile Devices
(ASP.NET)
.NET 2.0
Generics
ClickOnce
Team Foundation
Server
.NET 3.5
LINQ
MVC 1.0
Web & Load Testing
.NET 4.0
NuGet
Parallel Extensions
IntelliTrace
@Razor (MVC 3)
Windows Azure
Test Manager
Architecture Tools
.NET 4.5
Async
Improved ALM
New Team Explorer
Code Clones
MVC 4
Page Inspector
Modern  UI
.NET 3.0
Windows Vista
WPF/WCF/WWF

5. Agenda
• What we get back?
• What has changed/improved?
• What’s new in
• Visual Studio 2013
• Team Foundation Server 2013
• A quick look ahead

6. What we get back?

7. 1. Colours

9. VS2012 VS2013

10. 2. Blend for WPF & Silverlight

11. 3. Undock Pending Changes & Build windows

12. What has improved?

13. XAML Editor
• IntelliSense for Bindings
• Fuzzy, CamelCase & Substring match
• Go To Definition
• Snippets
• Surround With
• Tag matching

14. Team Explorer
• New Look & Feel
• Git Support
• Undock Pending Changes & Build windows
• Connect hub – see all your projects in one place

15. Team Explorer

16. Improved Debugging Experience
• 64-bit Edit & Continue
• Debug Managed Memory
• Async Calls appear in Calls Stack (only in Windows 8.1)
• Method Result appears in Autos window

17. Method result

18. Async Call Stack (W8.1)

19. 64-bit Edit & Continue

20. Debug Managed Memory

21. Options dialog

22. What’s new?

23. Sign in to Visual Studio

24. Notifications Center

25. Notifications Center
• Product Updates
• Visual Studio Gallery
• Samples Gallery
• Download Offline Help
• Synchronized Settings Conflicts
• Licensing
• Customer Improvement Experience Program

26. Code Lenses
• Test Status
• References
• Tested By
• Authors
• Changes
• Bugs
• Work Items
• Code Reviews

31. DEMO

32. Peek Definiton, Navigate To & Enhanced Scroll Bar

33. Peek Definiton, Navigate To & Enhanced Scroll Bar

34. Peek Definiton, Navigate To & Enhanced Scroll Bar

35. DEMO

36. • SQL Server Data Tools
• LightSwitch
(HTML5 & Office 365 template)
• Auto Brace Complete
• Move Line Up/Down
• JavaScript Highlighting
• Support for Windows 8.1
(Debugging and Optimization
improvements)
• SQL Server Reporting App
• MSBuild is part of Visual
Studio
Other little features

37. What’s new for Web

38. • One ASP.NET
• ASP.NET Scaffolding
• ASP.NET MVC 5
• ASP.NET WebAPI 2
• Browser Link
• OWIN & Katana
• SignalR 2.0
• Typescript
• Entity Framework 6
ASP.NET

39. ASP.NET MVC 5
• One ASP.NET
• ASP.NET Identity
• Bootstrap
• Authentication filters
• Filter overrides
• Attribute routing

40. Entity Framework 6
• Async Query and Save
• Connection Resilency
• Code-Based Configuration
• Dependency Resolution
• Interception / SQL logging
• Testability improvements

41. TypeScript

42. Browser Link

43. DEMO

44. What’s new in TFS 2013

45. Look & Feel

46. Portfolio backlogs & Tags

47. Team Rooms

48. Charts

49. Support for Git

50. Web Based Code Review

51. Web Test Manager

52. DEMO

53. Cloud-based load testing

54. TF Service – Publish to Windows Azure

55. A quick look ahead

56. Release? Updates? Can we go live?
• RTM? RC has a Go-Live license (and official support for upgrade)
• Team Foundation Service has release every 3 weeks
• Visual Studio & TFS
• 3-4 Major Updates per year

57. Windows Azure Workstation

58. Summary
We have seen:
• World in colours
• A few improvements to existing functionalities
• Lots of new features that are really awesome
• A bit of the future

59. THANK YOU