Microsoft Visual Studio 2013: Key New Features for Developers
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Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate and noted that the company’s flagship application development suite will release to manufacturing (RTM) Oct. 18. Microsoft also announced that it would make its Windows 8.1 bits available to developers. This had been a point of contention between the devices and services giant and its developer base because Microsoft initially decided that developers would not get access to the Windows 8.1 bits in advance of Oct. 18. However, developers now have access to the Release Candidate (RC) for Visual Studio 2013, which came out Sept. 10 and is available free for download here. Microsoft also announced that Windows 8.1 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM are now available to the developer community via the Microsoft Developer network (MSDN) and TechNet. Visual Studio 2013 is slated to launch Nov. 13, with several new features, including CodeLens, which brings useful information about types and type members directly into the editor. Other key new features include work item charting and the addition of Microsoft’s TypeScript language in the package. This eWEEK slide show takes a look at these and other key new features in Visual Studio 2013.
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2013: Key New Features for Developers
by Darryl K. Taft
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Work Item Charting
Work Item Charting enables developers to create charts quickly to visualize data from work item queries. These charts can be created with just a few clicks and refresh automatically as data is updated. Developers can create a variety of charts rapidly to visualize data based from their work item queries, such as bugs, user stories and tasks.
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Cloud Business Apps
With Visual Studio 2013, you can create and manage modern business applications that extend the Office 365 experience to help people interact with business processes, artifacts and other systems. Office 365 Cloud Business Apps run in the cloud, taking advantage of the rich platform capabilities exposed by Windows Azure and Office 365.
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TypeScript
Microsoft's TypeScript team shipped TypeScript 0.9.1.1 in Visual Studio 2013 RC. TypeScript is Microsoft's language for application-scale JavaScript development.
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Peek Definition
Visual Studio 2013 RC adds several new features for Peek Definition, including the ability to edit in view. Developers can use the Peek Definition command to see code definitions without switching away from the code they're writing. Peek Definition and Go To Definition show the same information, but Peek Definition shows it in a pop-up window, and Go To Definition shows it in a separate code window.
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CodeLens
Visual Studio 2013 RC adds deep Lync integration in CodeLens and adds indicators for exposing Bugs, Work Items and Code Reviews related to the class or member.
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Configuration
This image is from Work Item Charting and shows the configuration chart.
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Entity Designer
This image shows a Cloud Business App with Entity Designer.
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Browser Link
This image depicts creating a new panel with Browser Link.
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