Visual Studio 2013 Preview

Microsoft recently released Visual Studio 2013 Preview.

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Features in action

You can also install the ASP.NET and Web Tools Refresh that adds few new features in Visual Studio. ASP.NET vNext has extensive detail on the new features.

Checkout the following videos to learn more about new features added to the coolest development tool in the world

What’s New in ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio 2013 Preview with Soma Somasegar

What’s New in the Visual Studio 2013 IDE

What’s New in Visual Studio 2013 for C++ Developers

What’s New in Visual Studio & Blend for XAML Developers

Visual Studio 2013 for Web Developers- Deep Dive

What’s New in Blend for HTML Developers

Developing Apps for SharePoint 2013 with Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio 2013 Diagnostics Tools for XAML-Based Windows Store Apps

Diagnosing Issues in JavaScript Windows Store Apps with Visual Studio 2013

Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start – 01 What’s New in ASP.NET 4.5

Source – Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start

In order to do web development, you need to understand the following:

Visual Studio

• HTML5 and CSS3 standards and smarts
• JavaScript language features
• Page Inspector
• One code editor for client and server
• Web Essentials extension

NuGet

• Package manager – new way to bring dependencies into the project
• Install and configure in your project
• Handle dependencies and versions

ASP.NET

• Model Binding with ASP.NET Web Forms – Strongly Typed Data Controls
• Web Forms Friendly URLs
• Same routing system as MVC – in fact the routing system houses in ASP.NET but MVC also uses it
• Bundling and Optimization
• LESS editor
• Page Inspector
• async
• async and threading are kind of different
• Client.DownloadStringTaskAsync
• Task.WaitAll – blocks the current thread until all of the specified async requests have completed
• Task.WhenAll – will wait for all of the specified async requests to finish before returning
• “Async” and “await” keywords
• “Async = true” on the page

Microsoft Virtual Academy–Upcoming Live Jump Start Events

Lately Microsoft Virtual Academy has been offering cutting-edge courses, not only for the IT folks but also for the developers and QA (especially related to the TFS/ALM).

Check out upcoming live training sessions @ https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/RSS.aspx?type=liveevents&culture=en-US

Free ALM Training – Applying ALM with Visual Studio 2012 (exam 70-498) Jump Start

Anthony Borton will be hosting this virtual training session on ALM to prepare attendee for the ALM certification exam 70-498. The event is on 05/01/2013 from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm PDT.

See you there!

https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/applying-alm-with-visual-studio-2012?CR_CC=200208269