Visual Studio 11

Live Q&A with Colin Bowern. DEV281 - Visual Studio 11, .NET 4.5, and ParallelismWe're still a few months away from its release, but the beta version of Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 is available and with a Go-Live license too. With Visual Studio, reduction and simplification are the keywords.…

The word in the TFS/Test manager world for 2012 is "Agile". Lightweight requirements gathering through PowerPoint Storyboarding. Additional reporting, including a task board, in TFS and exploratory/agile testing through Test Manager. Lots of new features to delve into and they will be in…

DEV282 - What's New in TFS and Test Manager 11The word in the TFS/Test manager world for 2012 is "Agile". Lightweight requirements gathering through PowerPoint Storyboarding. Additional reporting, including a task board, in TFS and exploratory/agile testing through Test Manager. Lots of…

Read the full post >> MVPs Joel Semeniuk and David Wesst share what they're excited about in the new version of Visual Studio. Questions? Comments? Share them with myself, the team, and the larger Canadian developer community – start a conversation in the Canadian Developer Connection…

The Metro interface has the potential to change how a lot of people use computers. You've already seen a little of it in the Windows Phone. More if you have downloaded the Windows 8 consumer preview. In this session, we will demonstrate how the power exposed by Metro (through live tiles, push…

We wanted to better understand how Visual Studio 11 would behave if we chose to defer the loading of projects. Here's a video of one of the early prototypes in action.

We've made significant performance improvements in the Beta release of Visual Studio 11! Take a look at this video comparing the Developer Preview and Beta F5 experience using C++ F5.

We received feedback from both internal and external users that the stop debugging / edit / build / launch / attach cycle was too heavyweight, especially by comparison to the typical Web experience. We wanted to focus on making sure that cycle was as fast as possible, but we also wanted a model that…