2. Major areas of
improvement
Performance and productivity
Redefined fundamentals
Cloud app development with Azure
Mobile app development
3. Performance
& productivity
Visual Studio starts faster, is more responsive, and uses less
memory than before
A new setup experience
StartVisual Studio faster
Decrease solution load time
Lightweight Solution load
Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions.
5. Productivity
improvements
live architecture dependency validation
can now notify you in real-time of architectural dependency rule
violations
less likely to introduce unwanted dependencies
7. Productivity
improvements
View and navigate code with StructureVisualizer
The StructureVisualizer draws structure guide lines
Hovering on the lines shows you the tooltips that let you see the
opening of that block and its parents
Available for C#,Visual Basic, and XAML
8. Productivity
improvements
Experience improved navigation controls:
GoTo (Ctrl+F12) – navigate from any base type or member to its
various implementations.
GoTo All (Ctrl+T or Ctrl+,) – navigate directly to any
file/type/member/symbol declaration.
can filter your result list (eg: “f searchTerm” for files, “t searchTerm” for
types, etc.).
9. Productivity
improvements
Find All References (Shift+F12) – can group Find All Reference
results by a combination of project, definition, and path.
10. Productivity
improvements
Debugging and Diagnostics
Run to Click:
easily skip ahead during debugging without setting a breakpoint to
stop on the line you want.
When you are stopped in the debugger, simply click the icon that
appears next to the line of code that your mouse is over.Your code will
run and stop on that line
11. Productivity
improvements
The New Exception Helper:
helps you view your exception information at-a-glance
instant access to inner exceptions