Details of Visual Studio 2013 Revealed at Tech Ed

The highly-anticipated released of Microsoft's flagship project, the Visual Studio 2013 got a preview of some of its details during the Tech Ed 2013 while the public preview will be held later this month at Build. Most of the changes in the Visual Studio 2013 are to Team Foundation Server, some developers were expecting and hoping for major changes to Visual Studio itself, so they have to be patient. The Team Foundation Service has a new capability such as the cloud-based load testing that takes advantage of the elastic scalability of Windows Azure to generate traffic. It also semulates thousands of simultaneous virtual users that aims to help you understand how your web applications and services operate under load. Aside from the new features of Team Foundation Server, Microsoft have also announced a range of developer friendly options for Azure. Given the fact that Microsoft has the key development tool for Windows it makes sense to integrate with Azure as much as possible and not just by way of templates to create Azure web sites. Agile Programming features were also added to the previous Team Foundation Server 2012 and the incorporation of the methodology continues in 2013. The Agile portfolio management enables you to plan agile projects by showing hierarchical relationship between work being done in multiple teams. Within the Visual Studio 2013, users can add comments in social chat style and there are new code information indicators that provide information about unit tests, work items, code references, within the code editor. During the introduction preview of the Visual Studio 2013 at Tech Ed, Microsoft also announced that they have already acquired the inRelease release management product from InCycly Software. This will allow teams to use continuous deployment with nothing but Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. Meanwhile in the technical side of the Visual Studio 2013 release, you can now get memory diagnostics for .NET including a memory dump analyzer and Git support both on the client and on the server, including TFS services. For more information regarding the Visual Studio 2013 just visit the Microsoft Official Blog.

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