First update for Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft comes out with the publication of a first update of Visual Studio 2012 on the promise to release for the current development environment currently in shorter sequence updates. The final version of Visual Studio 2012 was released in August of this year. Soon after, it was said that Microsoft would release more frequent updates to the IDE. The predecessor Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack first appeared only about a year after the publication of this version.
Developers are not allowed by the head of the Developer Division, "Soma" Somasegar, with updates expected not only the removal of some errors, but also a number of new features to end up in the development environment. Among the new features delivered with the first update, there are features that will help you develop a so-called Windows Store apps, for example, to debug apps that were written with both managed and native code, as well as apps for ARM systems. Furthermore, Microsoft points to better diagnosis and testing capabilities for Windows 8 apps.
There are also static code analysis when developing apps for Windows Phone 8, which was released in late October. But not only the new operating systems are the focus of the improvements, such as now, C + + programmers to develop the new IDE for Windows XP systems, allowing wider the real Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server presuppositional 2012 development environment use is.
Visual Studio 2012 now supports the development of the new SharePoint 2013th In addition to the development of SharePoint applications have been added performance and UI testing tools (eg, load testing, IntelliTrace for SharePoint and mock object testing with Microsoft's Fakes Framework), and also for ASP.NET and HTML applications are it new testing options. In the area of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) also fits the complement of tools to generate kanban boards and flow charts.
Besides the official update has as its predecessor Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools again called. Some of them have been included in Visual Studio 2012, such as the revised Solution Explorer, the improved add-References dialog and the new search functionality. Other missing but in the finished product. Now there are some new and this again as a free add-on. New example is the Quick-task function, with which you can directly from the quick launch dialogue to carry out commands. In addition, the previously independent add-on "Color Printing" was being implemented (for color printout of source code) in the Productivity Power Tools.
The update gives it free as a web installer for all versions of Visual Studio 2012th To install in offline mode there is help. If we take Microsoft at their word, should follow the previous cycle, appear a second update in February.
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