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Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook

By : Richard Banks
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Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook

By: Richard Banks

Overview of this book

<p>There’s a new technology wave coming, and for Microsoft this is reflected in Windows 8, HTML5 web development, .NET 4.5 and C++11. Riding that wave is a new version of their flagship development tool, Visual Studio 2012, and "Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook" has you putting the new features into practice from the get-go! <br /><br />Among the exciting new features of Visual Studio 2012 is support for Windows 8, HTML5 and asynchronous development, as well as Team Foundation Server 2012 integration. “Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook” doesn’t waste time explaining what you already know from prior Visual Studio versions; instead you’ll see targeted and focused recipes on only new features so that you can get up to speed and back to work faster.<br /><br />“Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook” empowers you to take advantage of all the new features in Visual Studio 2012 so that you can develop applications for the next technology wave.</p> <p>The task-based recipes in this guide will have you up and running with improvements like support for Windows 8 development, HTML5 and JavaScript, .NET 4.5, asynchronous code and C++11.</p> <p>And since most people don’t develop alone, you’ll also see how the new team development features of Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 can help your whole team work smarter, not harder.<br /><br />Time is short and you’re in a hurry, so “Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook” will help you discover what’s new by way of a simple recipe format that is quick and easy to digest.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Visual Studio 2012 includes an overhauled Team Explorer client for connecting to Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS) and the hosted TFS service currently known as TFS Preview.

One of Microsoft's goals with this release of Visual Studio was to have "raving fans". They want users of Visual Studio to be so happy with the experience that they go and tell others about it and how great it is to use. One part of meeting this goal has been to improve the experience developers have when using TFS and, as a result, a number of the main friction and pain points people have had are now smoothed over. In addition a number of new features have also been added to make using TFS more compelling for developers.

The most visible change is in Team Explorer with the transition from a tree view of items to a set of task-based hubs built around the activities that developers need to perform.

The second is the introduction of local workspaces for source control and the decision to make these the default...