Monday, January 23, 2012

Visual Studio vNext or VS 11

I started playing around with TFS 11 and Visual Studio 11 shortly after the announcement of the Developer Preview. Unfortunately (or fortunately) things started getting pretty busy with the business and the time disappeared.
Finally I have been able to polish off some of the posts that I started and will be posting these as time allows. So let’s start at the beginning:

 

Convert Project

The first thing most people do (I’m sure) is to open a solution, and the first difference shows itself. Thinking back, conversion from one version of Visual Studio project file to the next became a “blind” next, next, next operation. The new dialog almost took me by surprise. The standard csproj or vbproj files does not need to be converted (this is actually a feature in VS 11) and the smaller projects that I opened worked fine. Obviously something has changed with the Modelling Project and the Database Project (I’ll get to that in a later post).

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Solution Navigator Explorer

Once your project files are up to date, the next thing you will notice is that Solution Explorer has changed a bit. Anybody familiar with the “Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools” would recognise this as the “Solution Navigator”.

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Finally the “Collapse All” image is a standard feature (It took long enoughWinking smile ). Other nice features include the search box, the ability to navigate “into” the file, class and method definitions and the Back and Forward “Navigation” image buttons allowing you to “navigate” from one search result to the next.


Monday, January 9, 2012

Welcome 2012

WOW. I woke up and realised that we have officially started 2012.
Now if this is our last year on earth or not, I wish everyone a prosperous and fulfilling year ahead.
Some of the things that I’ll be looking forward to this year:
  • Windows 8
  • TFS & Visual Studio vNext
  • C# 5
  • Delving deeper into WP7
  • And then scratching around Silverlight 5 as well
Have a good one!
Now to remember to put down 2012 instead of 2011!