Visual Studio 2013 Preview

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[h=1]Visual Studio 2013 Preview[/h]By: Robert Green

Visual Studio 2013 Preview is here with lots of exciting new features across Windows Store, Desktop and Web development. Dmitry Lyalin joins Robert for a whirlwind tour of this preview of the next release of Visual Studio, which is now available for download. Dmitry and Robert show the following in this episode:

• Recap of Team Foundation Service announcements from TechEd [02:00], including Team Rooms for collaboration, Code Comments in changesets, mapping backlog items to features
  
• IDE improvements [11:00], including more color and redesigned icons, undockable Pending Changes window, Connected IDE and synchronized settings
  
• Productivity improvements [17:00], including CodeLens indicators showing references, changes and unit test results, enhanced scrollbar, Peek Definition for inline viewing of definitions
  
• Web development improvements [28:00], including Browser Link for connecting Visual Studio directly to browsers, One ASP.NET
  
• Debugging and diagnostics improvements [37:00], including edit and continue in 64-bit projects, managed memory analysis in memory dump files, Performance and Diagnostics hub to centralize analysis tools [44:00], async debugging [51:00]
  
• Windows Store app development improvements, including new project templates [40:00], Energy Consumption and XAML UI Responsiveness Analyzers [45:00], new controls in XAML and JavaScript [55:00], enhanced IntelliSense and Go To Definition in XAML files [1:00:00]
  

Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1:

• Visual Studio 2013 Preview download
  
• Visual Studio 2013 Preview announcement
  
• Windows 8.1 Preview download
  
• Windows 8.1 Preview announcement
  

Additional resources:

• Visual Studio team blog
  
• Brian Harry's blog
  
• ALM team blog
  
• Web tools team blog
  
• Modern Application Lifecycle Management talk at TechEd
  
• Microsoft ASP.NET, Web, and Cloud Tools Preview talk at TechEd
  
• Using Visual Studio 2013 to Diagnose .NET Memory Issues in Production
  
• What's new in XAML talk at Build
  
• What's new in WinJS talk at Build
  

[h=3]Download[/h] [h=3]How do I download the videos?[/h]

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[h=3]Why should I download videos from Channel9?[/h]

• It's an easy way to save the videos you like locally.
  
• You can save the videos in order to watch them offline.
  
• If all you want is to hear the audio, you can download the MP3!
  

[h=3]Which version should I choose?[/h]

• If you want to view the video on your PC, Xbox or Media Center, download the High Quality WMV file (this is the highest quality version we have available).
  
• If you'd like a lower bitrate version, to reduce the download time or cost, then choose the Medium Quality WMV file.
  
• If you have a Zune, WP7, iPhone, iPad, or iPod device, choose the low or medium MP4 file.
  
• If you just want to hear the audio of the video, choose the MP3 file.
  

Right click “Save as…”

• MP3 (Audio only) [h=3]File size[/h] 58.9 MB
  
• MP4 (iPod, Zune HD) [h=3]File size[/h] 355.3 MB
  
• Mid Quality WMV (Lo-band, Mobile) [h=3]File size[/h] 174.0 MB
  
• High Quality MP4 (iPad, PC) [h=3]File size[/h] 781.7 MB
  
• Mid Quality MP4 (WP7, HTML5) [h=3]File size[/h] 545.2 MB
  
• High Quality WMV (PC, Xbox, MCE)
  

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