Visual Studio 11 includes evolutionary improvements like IntelliTrace support in production and full tooling for Windows 8 app development. Gone are Visual Studio macros and setup projects. Projects can open in VS 2010 and VS 11, though new project types won't load in VS 2010. Improvements are made to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS along with a Page Inspector for Windows 8 app development. Unit testing is now included for all editions with continuous testing and multiple framework support, though some features like test impact analysis are removed. The future includes consistent update cadence and Ultimate edition feature packs.

1. Visual Studio “11”
Robert MacLean
26th April 2012

2. Agenda
Out of scope
TFS (that was last week, where were you?)
Evolutionary Improvements
Gone
Upgrade Story: Project Compat
Major Tooling Improvements
HTML & JavaScript
Unit Testing
Future

3. Evolutionary Improvements
IntelliTrace
Supported in production
Still needs Ultimate for analysis
Windows 8
Full tooling support for all languages
Emulator
Remote deployment & debugging
Lightswitch
No longer separate product, included in all editions
Includes Lightswitch v2
Nuget
Included out of the box

4. Gone
Visual Studio Macros
Visual Studio Extensions
Setup Projects
Install Shield
InnoSetup
Wix
Coded UI Support for
Silverlight support
Internet Explorer 7
Firefox support

5. Project Compat
Short: Can open VS 11 solutions in VS 2010
Visual Studio Solution (.sln) version identifier
Visual Studio 2010 SP 1 Forward Compat
New project types will not load

6. HTML & JavaScript
JavaScript Improvements
HTML Improves
CSS Improvements
Page Inspector
Why? Windows 8

7. Unit Testing
Unit testing for everyone!
Key changes
Loss
No test impact analysis
No test lists
Upgrade projects can use these but they run on the old code
Create unit tests from method gone
Gain
Continuous Unit Testing
Multiple unit test framework support
x64 support
Fakes
Code Clone

8. Future
Cadence
Visual Studio Ultimate Packs