Visual Studio 2012

Starting with Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft has moved to providing updates to Visual Studio on a regular cadence of shorter intervals. The second such update, Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, is now available. In addition to bug fixes, Update 2 contains new features in four areas: agile…

In this video, Brian Keller will show you how you can use Microsoft Test Manager 2012 - part of the Visual Studio 2012 family of technologies - to test Metro style applications on Windows 8. When testing applications in this manner, Microsoft Test Manager will automatically capture rich diagnostics…

The VC++ 2012 auto-vectorizer tries to make loops in your code run faster by automatically vectorizing your code using the SSE instructions available in all current mainline Intel and AMD chips. In Visual C++ 2012, auto-vectorization is on by default and requires only that you…

Mei Liang returns to the show this week to demonstrate the latest version of the Sample Browser extension for Visual Studio. This extension provides a way for developers to search and download more than 3500 code samples from within Visual Studio, including over 700 Windows 8 samples and more than…

In this episode, Jason Zander joins us to celebrate the availability of Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate. Jason shows off a number of features that have been added to Visual Studio since Beta, including IDE updates [02:55] Web site optimization (bundling/minification) [07:00] Web publishing…

In this episode, Robert shows you how to add SQLite support to your Windows Store apps. SQLite is a free open source library that provides a self-contained transactional SQL database engine. Watch as Robert demonstrates how to setup a project to use SQLite as well as how to query, add, update,…

Starting with Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft has moved to providing update to Visual Studio on a regular cadence of shorter intervals. The first such update, Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, is now available. In addition to bug fixes, Update 1 contains new features in four areas: Windows…

Multicore JIT is a .NET 4.5 compiler technology that uses parallelization to reduce the JIT compilation time during application startup.Multicore JIT team says: "With Multicore JIT, methods are compiled on two cores in parallel. The more code you execute on your startup path, the more…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: [0:25] Windows 8 has reached the RTM milestone [Brandon LeBlanc] [1:48] Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Complete! (S. Somasegar) [2:34] Introducing HTML & JS Templates for Metro Apps (Caleb…

Image Watch is a new Visual Studio 2012 plug-in for debugging C++ image and video processing applications, for example photo or augmented reality apps. Image Watch provides a watch window that can display in-memory bitmaps during debugging, so you no longer need to litter your code with…