This is a lap around most of the new features and platforms for the Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11 release. Thanks to Microsoft for allowing us to use this PowerPoint deck for the webinar today!
Thank you to Microsoft Marketing for allowing for the use of the content in today’s presentation!
Improved IntelliSense:Performance – Built on top of IE’s JavaScript engine New features: Go To DefinitionOverloads for methods (using new Xml comment <signature>) Implicit referencesExtensibility – user can provide a JavaScript extension that can modify the IntelliSense Editing:Brace matching and highlighting Outlining
List and Content Type Designer – SharePoint developers using Visual Studio no longer have to hand edit XML files or leave Visual Studio and use SharePoint Designer or the Browser based experience in SharePoint to define Lists, Document Libraries and Content TypesImproved Sandboxed solution support – VS 2010 guided developers to stay within the confines of the Sandbox APIs via IntelliSense, in dev11 we now compile against the Sandbox object model providing developers compiler errors when they stray beyond the capabilities of the Sandbox API.Ability to deploy directly to O365 from within Visual Studio (remote deployment to on-prem SharePoint not yet due to SharePoint 2010 API limitations)Deeper VS ALM toolset integration – Ability to use the Profiler with SharePoint solutions as well as data collectors for code coverage and test impact analysis We’ve included a number of additional smaller improvements including the inclusion of the Silverlight Web Part template and improved JavaScript IntelliSense and debugging.
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