Visual Studio\TFS 2012 Update 1 is available
In previous post “Visual Studio 2012–News (iPhone, Web Test Management, 260 Limit and more)” I talked about the new Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 and what’s new for Visual Studio and TFS 2012.
So today Microsoft release :
Update:
260 Character Path Limit
Some call this Microsoft “Achilles’ heel” but I’ll not do so far, this is with no doubt a very annoying bug that not once cause me to change and modify entire environments.
This will allow us more flexibility in Source Control usage.
Windows Development
Somasegar’s blog - A big focus area for us when designing Visual Studio 2012 was in enabling developers to build stellar apps for Windows, and that trend continues with Update 1, with which we’ve improved Windows development in a variety of areas. Back in June, we announced we would enable C++ applications to target Windows XP from Visual Studio 2012, and that support is now available as part of Update 1. For Windows Store applications for Windows 8, Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 includes support for both mixed-mode managed/native debugging and for native ARM dump debugging. Update 1 also includes improved diagnostics and testing support for Windows Store apps, such as with a JavaScript memory analysis tool, support for data-driven unit tests, and C++ unit testing enhancements. Additionally, for developers building apps for Windows Phone 8, we’ve enabled code analysis to help improve the quality of their phone apps.
Developer Productivity
Brian Harry - Code Map – Code Map is a super cool new feature in the architecture tools that allows me to incrementally build up an architecture/dependency diagram as I explore code. It makes walking into an existing code base and exploring it WAY easier than it ever has been before. You can incrementally lay out a diagram one element at a time (class, method, etc) as you explore the code. You can “query” to expand the diagram – like adding all derived classes or all referencing methods, etc to incrementally understand the code dependencies.
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