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Visual Studio 2013
I'm thrilled to share that our next major release, Visual Studio 2013, will be available later this year, with a preview build publicly available at Build 2013 in San Francisco at the end of the month. In his keynote demo and follow-on foundational session today at TechEd, Brian Harry highlighted some of the new ALM capabilities coming in this release and in the cloud, including new features focused on business agility, quality enablement, and DevOps. Here are a few of my favorites:
- Agile portfolio management, which enables you to plan your agile projects "at scale" by showing the hierarchical relationship between work being done in multiple teams across your organization.
- Cloud-based load testing, a new capability of Team Foundation Service that takes advantage of the elastic scalability of Windows Azure to generate traffic, simulating thousands of simultaneous virtual users so as to help you understand how your web applications and services operate under load.
- Code information indicators that provide information about unit tests, work items, code references, and more, all directly within the code editor in Visual Studio, increasing developer productivity by enabling project-related contextual information to be viewed and consumed without leaving the editor.
- A team room integrated into TFS, improving the collaboration amongst team members via a real-time and persistent chat room that integrates with data and interactions elsewhere in TFS.
- Identity integrated into Visual Studio, such that the IDE is connected to backend services that support, for example, roaming the developer's settings as the developer moves from installation to installation.
- Support in TFS for integrated code comments that facilitate code reviews with increased transparency and traceability.
- A .NET memory dump analyzer, which enables developers to easily explore .NET objects in a memory dump and to compare two memory dumps in pursuit of finding and fixing memory leaks.
- Git support built into Visual Studio 2013, both on the client and on the server, including in the on-premises Team Foundation Server 2013.
These are just a few of the new capabilities available with this release, which we'll be talking much more about in the coming weeks and at Build. Many of these features are available starting today on Team Foundation Service.
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