Whats New in the Visual Studio 2013 IDE

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What’s New in the Visual Studio 2013 IDE

Agenda

The Connected IDE

Themes and Visual Design

Editor Productivity

Performance Improvements

Connected IDE Demo

The Connected IDE

Sign into the IDE with your Microsoft AccountMove seamlessly between your machinesSynchronize settings across your devicesGet up and running faster

Notifications

Keep Visual Studio up-to-dateEasily determine what’s importantAddress laterOne common location

Themes and Visual Design

Choice

Choice

Blue

Light

Dark

Visual Design

Improved iconsLine work to better define areas and regionsHover colors Scrollbar statesActive/inactive instancesImproved experience for high density displays

Quick Look at Theme Updates

High-DPI + VS

Editor Productivity Demos

Editor Productivity

Auto Brace CompletionMove Line Up and DownEnhanced ScrollbarNew Navigate To experiencePeekCodeLens

Performance

Performance Improvements

Solution LoadIDE StartupResponsiveness

C++ Configuration Switching

C++ Configuration Switching

First Time Switch (sec) Subsequent Switches (sec)0

50

100

150

200

170

100

40

0.5

Time to switch configuration

Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio 2013

325% Improvement

19,900% Improvement

Symbol Improvements

Cancelable symbol loadingMissed symbol files are recordedSmarter cachingEarlier detection of bad symbol pathsAbility to trust source server

Solution Load Performance Demo

Recap

The Connected IDE

Themes and Visual Design

Editor Productivity

Performance Improvements

For More Information

Visual Studio Bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/

Visual Studio Toolbox on Channel 9http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox

Somasegar’s bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/

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