By itself, Visual Studio 2012 included many compelling new features not available in prior releases. But Microsoft hasn’t stopped. Since the production release in August 2012, Microsoft has continued to release more new capabilities. In this session we’ll walk through some of the latest and greatest enhancements that you can use in your Visual Studio and TFS 2012 environment.

1. Imaginet Presents
The Newest of the New
with Visual Studio and TFS 2012
Dave McKinstry, ALM Practice Manager
Imaginet and ALM:
Efficiently Build Better Software

2. Agenda
• The New Meaning of “New”
• The First “New” for 2012
• The Next “New”
• Other “New” things
• “New” Considerations
• Summary

3. The Old Definition of “New”
Visual Studio Version Product Release
Visual Studio April, 1995
Visual Studio 97 February, 1997
Visual Studio 6.0 June, 1998
Visual Studio .NET (2002) February, 2001
Visual Studio .NET 2003 April, 2003
Visual Studio 2005 November, 2005
Visual Studio 2008 November, 2007
Visual Studio 2010 April, 2010
Visual Studio 2012 September 2012
Microsoft has been releasing Visual Studio
every two years on average

4. Existing ALM Capabilities in Visual Studio 2010
Operate Define
•Monitor •Requirements
•Support •Validation
•Upgrade •Prioritization
•Release Plan
Develop
•Iteration Plan
•Develop
•Test

5. New ALM Capabilities in Visual Studio 2012
Operate Define
•Monitor •Requirements
•Support •Validation
•Upgrade •Prioritization
•Release Plan
Develop
•Iteration Plan
•Develop
•Test

6. Microsoft’s Evolving Release Cadence
Visual Visual Visual Visual Visual Visual
Visual Visual
Visual Studio Studio .NET Studio .NET Studio Studio Studio Studio
Studio 97 Studio 6.0
(2002) 2003 2005 2008 2010 2012
~2 years Broad adoption
of agile practices
3 Weeks
Releases for TFS Releases for Team
and Visual Studio Foundation Service

7. Visual Studio Releases – Quarterly “New”
Visual Studio Version Product Release
Visual Studio April, 1995
Visual Studio 97 February, 1997
The old “New”
Visual Studio 6.0 June, 1998
Visual Studio .NET (2002) February, 2001
Visual Studio .NET 2003 April, 2003
Visual Studio 2005 November, 2005
Visual Studio 2008 November, 2007
Visual Studio 2010 April, 2010
Visual Studio 2012 September, 2012
The new “New”
Visual Studio 2012.1 December, 2012
Visual Studio 2012.2 Soon!
Visual Studio … Est. 2Q2013
Visual Studio … Est. 3Q2013

8. Agenda
• The New Meaning of “New”
• The First “New” for 2012
• The Next “New”
• Other “New” things
• “New” Considerations
• Summary

9. Visual Studio 2012 Update 1
• Released November 26, 2012
• Affects both Visual Studio 2012 and TFS 2012
• Bug fixes
• Many new features!
• Usability improvements for Version Control • Sharepoint testing improvements • Code Map – Incremental discovery and visualization of your
• Associate multiple bugs with a checking at once in • Load testing support for SharePoint application architecture and dependencies
the Add by ID field (i.e. comma separated) • Unit test emulator for SharePoint
• Toolbar button to show/hide deleted items in the • Coded UI test support for SharePoint • IntelliTrace Integration with System Center
source control explorer • Intellitrace collection plan for SharePoint
• Copy the name of a changeset/shelveset from the • Unit testing improvements
Changeset/Shelveset Details page • Manual testing improvements • Windows Store C++ unit testing enhancements
• Find a Shelveset by name from the Find • Editing of test cases from inside the test runner • Windows Store Unit Test library enhancements
Shelvesets page • Code coverage support for manual testing of web • Traits support for all adapters
• Include/exclude all items except those that are apps • Unit Test Grouping and Filtering in Test Explorer
selected • Hierarchical query support Window
• Know if my detected changes are adds or deletes • Pause manual testing session and later resume a
before clicking the link test case • Easier installation of unit test adapters on TFS build
• Navigate to an item in source control explorer • Deep copy of a test plan to better support release machines using Nuget
from pending changes page management
• Undo changes to a file from the editor context • Publish test results to TFS from command-line • Multiscale image support for manifest content
menu • JavaScript Memory Profiling
• Coded UI testing improvements
• TFS web access usability improvements • Cross browser testing for coded UI testing • Mixed Managed/Native Debugging Support for Store Apps
• Drag and drop queries and query folders (IE, Chrome, Firefox, …)
• Drag/drop between User Stories and People in the • Usability improvements for Coded UI tests • ARM Native Dump Debugging Support
Taskboard
• Drag a task to a person to assign it in the • SCVMM 2012 SP1 support with Lab Management for • Enable XP targeting with C++
Taskboard Windows 2012 hosts
• Expand and Collapse the left navigation pane
AND MORE…
• Remember the state of the splitters • VSUpdate support for Microsoft Test Manager for automatic
• Animate Taskboard tiles on drop update notification
• Next/Previous arrows on WIT form
• Updated navigation styling • Extend TFS server side path limits from 260 characters to
• Links and Attachments in WIT form shows counts 400 characters
• Kanban support in TFS Web Access • Integrate Blend Windows Phone Tooling

10. Were any bugs fixed?
Entity Framework Tools fails with an index violation. Studio 2012 RC.
• Entity Framework designer may overwrite facets of C-Space properties based • Decreased performance when you use the complex identity or group • Localization
on facets of S-Space properties. membership topography. • Some IntelliSense texts are not translated.
• Build the solution fails after you add an empty ADO.NET Entity Data Model. • Version Control in TFS ASP.NET Data
• The .tt files stop generating after you nest an .edmx file under the project • Query plan in the prc_CheckIn process causes large memory estimates. • Data Sources window is disabled after you build a project. Additionally, a "data
folder. • "Cannot insert NULL value (QU1)" exception in the TFS 2012 service, and the sources are not supported by the current project" warning is displayed.
ASP.NET Editor VC++ UpdateLocalVersion command fails. Code Analysis
• HTML tag is not closed when you type a starting <script> tag in Visual Studio .NET Runtime • "MSBuild could not locate the Code Analysis tool" error when you run code
2012. • "Code Analysis errors of the same type - CA2149 Transparent code must not analysis in Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop.
• IntelliSense gives a warning when you mix user controls and controls in a same reference security critical items" error when you create a new application by Agile
tagPrefix node. using the default "Windows Phone XAML and Direct3D" project template. • No feedback when you cannot create stubs or shims for an assembly by using
• CSS code examples cannot work in .less files. F# the Fakes function.
• Visual Studio 2012 cannot insert a closing tag in HTML files automatically. • The sort algorithm of the FSharp.Core.dll assembly may produce incorrect My Work
Web Tools results, and you cannot deploy the applications that contains F# code to • You encounter crash and data loss issues in the code review workflow.
• Web Platform and Tools (WPT) packages are affected by a time stamp signing Windows Store.
• The work items that are under the selected area path do not show in the
issue. ClickOnce "Available Work Items" section of MyWork.
• Dirty flag is displayed after you save a file in Visual Studio designer. • "Not a valid Win32 application" error when you try to use ClickOnce to deploy a • The feature enablement infobar does not go away when you upgrade TFS 2010
• Too much memory is used after you add a new entity model that is generated Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application to Windows XP. to TFS 2012.
from a database. C++ Compiler Debugger
• A local Internet Information Services (IIS) Express instance is displayed when • Incorrect code is generated for bit field swap on the ARM compiler. • 764861: Visual Studio 2012 crashes when you try to debug a native x32-based
you browse from a web page that is in a cloud service project. • Debug Interface Access (DIA) ARM stack unwinder displays empty stack when application.(http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/76486
• "Application/JavaScript" content of JavaScript files is not registered to Visual the CPU contains an invalid address. 1)
Studio 2012. • WinCE default entry point is _stdcall instead of _cdecl. • 760468: The remote endpoint is not reachable, and you cannot start or attach
• Right-to-Left is not supported in JavaScript Windows Store app templates. • The image base symbol name of WinCE is ImageBase instead of the debugger in Visual Studio
• Visual Studio 2012 does not support the WinJS Software Development Kit CeImageBase. 2012.(https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/760468)
(SDK). • Single VC++ file takes a long time to compile. • "Exception 0xC0000005;VSDEBUGENG.MANIMPL.DLL!" error when you debug
• Visual Studio 2012 crashes when you save a read-only manifest and then • No sign targets are called for the vcredist_x86, vcredist_x64, or an application in Visual Studio 2012.
select Cancel to dismiss the dialog box. vcredist_arm files. • The application may crash or data corruption occurs when you debug optimized
Web Publish Installation native ARM-based binaries.
• You cannot install the Web Deploy component when you set up Visual Studio • "Microsoft XP support for Visual Studio" error when you install the XP targeting • The brand name is incorrect in the remote debugger installer dialog window.
2012. package. • "Exception rxoejih3rskjez4xxwpxudkcppwjodng;
• Web Tools Extensions (WTE) website publish operation does an unnecessary • C++ Editor VSDEBUGPRESENTATIONPACKAGE.NI.DLL!" error when you debug an
precompilation. • You may lose the property sheet changes in Property Manager. application in Visual Studio 2012.
Build Automation in TFS • "Exception 0xC0000005; SQLCEOLEDB40.DLL!unloaded" error when you run • You cannot debug ARM-based VC++ applications for late-breaking Windows
• A Build Scheduling job fails two times in TFS. VC++ applications in Visual Studio 2012. hardware changes.
• "TF50620: The Team Foundation identity scope A5BD927E-17AE-41F9-B8F3- • "Exception 0xC0000005;MICROSOFT.VISUALSTUDIO.CPPSVC.INTERNAL.DLL!" • You cannot step in a dynamic SQL script file by using the debugger in Visual
34BE44653408 does not exist" error, and you cannot upgrade to Visual Studio error when you run VC++ applications in Visual Studio 2012. Studio 2012.
2012.1. • You encounter a deadlock between the Devenv.exe and VCPkgSrv.exe files. • You cannot uninstall the app package after you debug an installed app
• Message queue settings are lost. package.
• VC++ project system does not support transitive closure of SDKs.
• You cannot scroll in web browsers for the summary and log views of build files Standard C++ Library • The Wait dialog box is not helpful when third-party networking software blocks
in Team System Web Access (TSWA). local 64-bit debugging.
• Potential branding issue during installation. IntelliTrace
Cloud Intelligence and Admin in TFS • Application intermittently crashes when you create an async operation with
• Visual SourceSafe (VSS) installer compliance issues. • "'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TraceLogPackage.TraceLogPackage, Microsoft.IntelliTra
Parallel Patterns Library (PPL). ce.Package.11.0.0, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f
• Visual Studio 2012.1 milestone information in ReleaseManifest.xml. C Runtime (CRT) 7f11d50a3a' package did not load correctly" error when you debug a new
• "Object doesn't support this property or method" error when you access the • Replace mempcy function for ARM CPU with a faster version from Windows. project in Visual Studio 2012.
Team Profile page. • Visual Studio Fundamentals Code Map
Collaboration in TFS • NetFx payloads are not the re-signed version in TFS and in team agents. • Flag icons on Code Map are not updated.
• PowerPoint Storyboarding stops working when you uninstall Visual Studio • Test professional and feedback client Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) are not T4
2012.1. included in the list of the Visual Studio 2012.1 bundle. • You cannot debug the T4 template by using the Entity Framework templates.
Services Framework in TFS • The message on the Visual Studio 2012.1 "uninstall finished" page uses the Lab Manager
• "An error occurred while executing the following script: information icon instead of the warning icon.
upd_IdentitySnapshotToDev11M36.sql. Failed batch starts on the line 242. • You cannot create network isolation environments on Microsoft Windows 2008
• ProjectReference and SKURef are not updated for the Visual Studio 2012.1 MSP R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) hosts.
Statement line: 2." error when you attach a collection to a Visual Studio 2012.1 with WDExpress core MSI file.
server. • You cannot create the TestEnvironment.xml file by using Build Verification
• Visual Studio 2012 does not contain the TFS_ServerCore.msi package. Testing (BVT) scripts.
• You cannot upgrade to Visual Studio 2012 if the database collation name
contains "90" and this instance is hosted on Microsoft SQL Server 2012. • Threaded wait dialog title bar colors do not work well with a custom Microsoft • LoadTestScenario case fails in the BVT rolling build.
Visual Studio 2010 color theme. • "Specified cast is not valid" exception when you try to stop recording for an
• Rebranded URLs (for example tfs.visualstudio.com) are not supported in the
Visual Studio 2012 client. Visual Studio IDE editing task scenario.
• "Exception of type • Crash occurs when you try to close Visual Studio 2012. • You cannot obtain VC++ runtime from Visual Studio 2012 remote store.
'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.HostShutdownException' was • "Exception 0xC0000005; DEVENV.EXE!CDevEnvAppId::Run" error when you • Test-signing time is too long in Visual Studio 2012.
thrown" error when you try to delete a project of an offline collection. change the default installation path in Visual Studio 2012.
• LocalScopeId value is not changed in tbl_GroupScope when you change the • Chrome does not automatically appear in the list of the Browse With dialog in
Server ID. Visual Studio 2012.
• You cannot detach and reattach a cloned collection database instance, and it • You cannot start .VSIX setups after you install the July 2012 update in Visual

11. SharePoint Development Enhancements
• SharePoint improvements
– Unit test emulator
– Coded UI test support
– Web Performance test support
– Load test support
– IntelliTrace collection plan

12. SharePoint and Unit Testing
[TestMethod]
public void ScheduleAppointmentReturnsTrueWhenNewAppointmentIsCreated()
{
using (new SharePointEmulationScope(EmulationMode.Enabled))
{
//Arrange
SPSite site = new SPSite("http://localhost");
string listName = String.Format("List{0}", Guid.NewGuid());
// create a new temporary list
Guid listId = site.RootWeb.Lists.Add listName, listName, SPListTemplateType.GenericList);
SPList list = site.RootWeb.Lists[listId];
Assert.IsNotNull(list);
// add fields to list
list.Fields.Add("Name", SPFieldType.Text, true);
list.Fields.Add("Date", SPFieldType.Text, false);
list.Update();
// prepare
string errorMsg = string.Empty;
DateTime date = DateTime.Now;
BookAnAppointmentWebPart webPart = new BookAnAppointmentWebPart();
// Act
bool success = webPart.ScheduleAppointment(site.RootWeb, list.Title, "My Name",
"888-888-8888", "My.Name@contoso.com", "23", date, out errorMsg);
// Assert
Assert.IsTrue(success);
// cleanup
list.Delete();
site.Dispose();
}
}

13. SharePoint and IntelliTrace

14. Agile Enhancements
• Taskboard:
– Drag-n-drop assignment
of tasks to user stories
– Drag-n-drop assignment
of tasks to people
• Cumulative Flow diagram
• Initial Kanban board implementation

15. TFS Enhancements
• Team Web Access
– Navigation enhancements
• Persistence of the state of the splitters
• Styling improvements and Animations
• Previous/Next navigation on work items
• Removed backlog items are hidden from the backlog
– Displays links and attachment counts
– Drag-n-drop queries and query folders
– Expand / Collapse the left navigation pane
– Version control usability
• Version Control
– Support for server paths up to 400 characters

16. Window Development
• Windows Store Applications
– ARM Native Dump Debugging Support
– Mixed managed/native Windows Store Applications debug
support
– Windows Store C++ unit testing
– Data-driven Windows Store application unit tests
– JavaScript Memory Analysis tool
• Windows C++ Development
– Target Windows XP from Visual Studio 2012
• Windows Phone 8
– Static Code Analysis

17. Windows Store Applications and JavaScript

18. Test Explorer Enhancements
Ability to easily filter tests
using “Traits”
• TestCategory attribute (implicit)
• Owner
• Priority
• Other TestProperties
Explicit using Search (e.g.,Priority:”1”)

19. Exploring Code using Code Maps

20. Manual Testing Enhancements
• Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)
– Image logs for Exploratory Testing
– Code coverage for manual testing against web apps
– Edit Test Cases during test execution
– Pause and resume test execution
– Test suite population using hierarchical queries
– Deep copy of test suites via command line
– Automatic MTM and Feedback client updates
• MTM Lab Center
– Lab Management support for Windows 8 environments
(Requires SCVMM 2012 SP1 which enables Windows 2012
and Windows 8 lab management support.)

21. Exploratory Testing with Image Logs

22. Automation Testing Enhancements
• Coded UI Tests
– Cross Browser support
via Selenium
– Enhanced HTML
logging support
– SharePoint 2010 support
• Web Performance & Load Tests
– Load tests use LocalDB by default

23. Other Changes
• New Visual Studio start page videos
• Customized IntelliTrace collection plans
• System Center SP1 Management Pack
for TFS Work Item integration
• System Center SP1 IntelliTrace collection
• Improvements for loading symbols and source
• Shut down MSBuild processes when Visual Studio
shuts down

24. IntelliTrace and System Center

25. DEMONSTRATION
Update 1:
Select New Features
• Code Map
• Coded UI Tests

26. Agenda
• The New Meaning of “New”
• The First “New” for 2012
• The Next “New”
• Other “New” things
• “New” Considerations
• Summary

27. Visual Studio and TFS Update 2
• Four community technology preview (CTP) releases
since the beginning of the year
• Current release is Update 2 CTP 4
• CTP 4 has a “Go-Live” license
• Like it’s predecessor, numerous fixes and
enhancements!
• Final release isn’t available so specifics may change.

28. Team Web Access Enhancements
• Work Item Tagging
• Send Work Items via Email
• Test Hub in Web Access
• Version Control experience

29. Automated Testing and Unit Testing
• Microsoft Fakes move to Visual Studio Premium edition
• Test Explorer
– Group unit tests by class
– Playlists
• Unit Testing support for Windows Phone apps
• Windows store app testing
– [UITestMethod] cause a unit test to run on the UI thread
• Coded UI Tests
– Improved cross browser– Extended “Title smart match” injects
JavaSciprt for difficult to automated test steps

30. SharePoint Enhancements
• Further SharePoint Load Testing improvements
– Additional support for InfoPath, Excel services, Office Web
Companions, workflows, etc.
• SharePoint 2013 support
– Coded UI Tests
– Unit Tests
– Web Performance Tests
– Load Tests
– IntelliTrace

31. Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Enhancements
• Visual Studio Blue Theme
• XAML designer performance improvements (load)
• Command-line Build/Deploy for Windows phone apps
• New Team Explorer “Connect” page
• Profiler events timeline for Windows store HTML/JS
• Blend returns, including support for WPF, Silverlight and
SketchFlow
• Code Map integration with the debugger
• LightSwitch support for HTML 5

32. Blend for Visual Studio 2012

33. Code Map / Debugger Interactions

34. DEMONSTRATION
Update 2:
Select New Features
• Team Web Access
– Kanban Board
– Tags
– Code
– Test
– Email
• Test Explorer
• LightSwitch (template)

35. Agenda
• The New Meaning of “New”
• The First “New” for 2012
• The Next “New”
• Other “New” things
• “New” Considerations
• Summary

36. Beyond the Updates
• Visual Studio Gallery (a few from Microsoft)
– Storyboard Shapes Libraries [5/31-9/12/2012]
– Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools [11/9/2012]
– Team Foundation Power Tools 2012.1 [9/12/2012]
– Visual Studio Tools for Git (Preview) [3/6/2013]

37. DEMONSTRATION
Add-ons as “New”

38. Agenda
• The New Meaning of “New”
• The First “New” for 2012
• The Next “New”
• Other “New” things
• “New” Considerations
• Summary

39. Lots of “New” stuff – When should I adopt?
• High compatibility between client and server
components
• Try to keep server components in sync
– Build and Test servers
– Lab environments
• Always best to upgrade in a test environment

40. Summary
• Microsoft has increased their
release cycles from every two
years to quarterly
• Updates target both TFS and
Visual Studio tools
• Include both bug fixes but
and valuable new features
• Prereleases are being made
available including some with
“Go-Live” support
• You can and should control
how and when you choose to
upgrade

41. Questions?

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