Microsoft plans faster updates for Visual Studio 2012


At the official launch event for Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft introduced several new features, the company had probably saved up for lining the show yet. Essentially, these are a few missing toolsets more National Language packs and an outlook on the future and additions coming soon release policy.

The Express family with the freely available specialized and stripped in some respects, Visual Studio versions is completely ready now. With Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows desktop applications, can now also for the classic Windows desktop, free to create in C #, VB.NET and C + +. Visual Studio Express 2012 for the web tools for functional programming language F # have been added. They are installed using the Web Platform Installer and expand the IntelliSense support for accessing data structures in SQL databases and Webdatenprotokollen by provider type. The mechanism can be extended by user-written provider.

One way to have Visual Studio to enrich the features that Microsoft for a new version could not finish in time, were already far supplement packages that were submitted later than the Visual Studio Gallery. A first such package is now available with the TFS 2012 Power tools to retrofit the templates for project management methodology Kanban, powerful backup tool, a process template editor and extensions for both Windows Explorer and PowerShell. For October, the successor of the Productivity Power Tools is provided - which features the VS2010er output are now largely incorporated into the new Visual Studio.

Although the development for Windows Embedded Compact is already supported by Visual Studio 2012, but with the next release scheduled for early 2013, further improvements and enhancements are added.

No more than "service pack" rather than "Update 1" is the next major maintenance of Visual Studio are published. With these updates, Microsoft wants to increase the density of releases between major versions, to respond to short-term emerging trends in software development. A preview version of the first update to be published in September 2012, the final release later this year. For example, extensions are provided for agile teams in the TFS area and continuous quality assurance for SharePoint and Windows projects.

Should be lifted at last, as requested by the community, the limitation to 260 characters in file paths that had been done regularly to difficulties in version control. However, the barrier is initially increased only to 400 characters, which is evidently a result of a limited field length in SQL Server index.

CodeMap comes with a completely new feature added in the architectural tools. Thus, should an architectural or dependency graph can expand incrementally, while you're exploring existing manually starting from a single class or method code. These are to be displayed on request derived classes or all referenced methods.

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