Visual Studio vNext
At TechEd today , Microsoft has finally unveiled the cards for the next version of Visual Studio (the code name is vNext so far). The main development vectors were indicated, heels of serious features were announced, and a couple of screenshots were shown. If you wish, you can read about it a large or even larger document in English, well, and I will make a short squeeze in Russian. And there will be a video soon, but not yet.
Agile planning
Microsoft finally got the idea that the future lies in agile development technologies. In the TFS web interface, you can see the backlog, sprinting and other Scrum attributes. It looks pretty. How usable - the screenshots are not clear.
Rapid Prototyping
Microsoft agreed with the idea that quickly drafting a prototype application in the Studio for demonstration to the customer is not so simple and has released a separate tool for this. True, it could not do without the “Microsoft-way”: the tool is called Storyboarding and is a PowerPoint plugin that adds a number of components to it, the ability to decompose them on the form and bind some events to them (for example, to show that this button is clicked will open this form).
Advanced Feedback
Now it has become much more convenient for the user to tell you what your program is ... a wonderful invention. Recording video, audio and action logs, screenshots, a web interface for establishing bugs, sending and processing emails with bugs. Much, it seems to me, was already truncated in VS 2010, but here, they say, it has become more convenient.
Continuous integration system
Native support for MS Test, xunit and nunit. Ability to connect others. Test coverage of both managed and unmanaged code.
Good old C ++ is back
Microsoft suddenly realized that their IDE is the only adequate IDE for C ++ on the Windows platform, and, as it were, I wouldn’t want to promote only C # and VB, but I also need to pay attention to flattened pluses. So:
- Advanced static code analyzer (even a few pieces)
- All VS architectural features work correctly for C ++ (all sorts of diagrams, dependencies, etc.)
- C ++ support in all testing and metric creation tools
PS For the quality of screenshots do not execute - they are the same on the Microsoft site.