Inside Visual Studio 11: A Guided Tour
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Inside Visual Studio 11: A Guided TourVisual Studio 11 is packed with new features to help you be a more efficient, productive developer. Here's your guided tour.
By Mark Michaelis 03/01/2012 By the time you read this, Visual Studio 11 beta 1 will be available for download. In this article, I'll review what Visual Studio 11 has in store for developers from an IDE perspective. Specifically, the focus is on new tooling included that's centered around productivity. Discussions of features such as language changes, Microsoft .NET Framework additions and Metro-style development capabilities will be covered in future articles.
Much of what's in the Visual Studio 11 IDE has been available for some time already in the form of Power Tools extensions to Visual Studio 2010. However, through Visual Studio 11, those extensions are built-in,