18 Dec 2013

Visual Studio 2013 Settings Sync & Licensing

Visual Studio 2013
With Visual Studio 2013 you can now “roam” various Visual Studio settings across multiple development machines. If you’re not familiar with the synchronization capabilities in Visual Studio 2013, here’s the list of what currently syncs: Appearance (Theme, Fonts, and Colors) Environment Aliases Keyboard Shortcuts Startup Text Editor Syncing is enabled by default (in Tools->Options->Environment/Synchronized Settings) and can be initiated by signing into a Microsoft Account by clicking on the Sign in link in the upper-right corner of Visual Studio 2013. Once you logon with your Microsoft Account, you will notice that the account you’ve signed in with is also displayed…
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04 Dec 2013

Omaha Visual Studio 2013 Launch Event

User Group, Visual Studio 2013
The Omaha ALM User Group with Blue Cross Blue Shield Nebraska and Deliveron Consulting Services proudly invite you to the Omaha Visual Studio 2013 Launch Event. Join us for this special event where we will have: Latest Announcements and Highlights from the Microsoft Launch Free food and soda What’s new for developers in Visual Studio 2013 by Jeff Bramwell What’s new in ALM using Visual Studio 2013 by Mike Douglas RSVP now so we know to have enough food and available seating. Sponsors Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska (http://www.nebraskablue.com)Deliveron (http://www.deliveron.com/) Deliveron Consulting Services is a technology consulting company focused…
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13 Nov 2013

Watch the Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Launch

Events, Visual Studio 2013
While I realize this is really short notice (as you can see in the screenshot above, the launch is only about an hour away) I thought I’d go ahead and post the link to view the Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Launch. The event will start today, November 13th, at 15:00 UTC (7:00am PST; 9:00am CST; 10:00am EST).
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13 Nov 2013

Visual Studio 2012 & TFS 2012 Update 4 Available

Visual Studio 2012
The final release of Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 and Team Foundation Server Update 4 is now available for download. Here are the links: Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 (view details) Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 4 (view details) The Visual Studio 2012 update is available as a web installer (1.3MB); However, you can run the installer with the /layout switch if you would like to download the entire set of installation files (e.g. to install the update on multiple machines while downloading it only once). For example, press Windows+R and enter: {path}\vs2012.4.exe /layout (replacing {path} with the download path…
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06 Nov 2013

TIP: Visual Studio 2013 XAML Error

Tips, Visual Studio 2013, Windows 8.1
Since I upgraded to Windows 8.1 I’ve had various issues with Windows Store apps running in Visual Studio 2013. I would get strange debugger-related issues when I attempted to run an app though it would compile just fine. In fact, it didn’t matter if I ran the app locally or within the emulator, it would give me some strange debugger errors which were surfaced from non-managed code. I noticed that when I opened a XAML file in the XAML editor (within Visual Studio 2013) I would get the following error: I did some quick bing’n around for an answer and…
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25 Oct 2013

Where Did My Visual Studio 2013 Shortcuts Go?

Tips, Visual Studio 2013
If you have installed the recently-released Visual Studio 2013 you may have had to do a double take to find the Visual Studio 2013 shortcuts in your Start menu. In previous releases of Visual Studio, the Start menu folder the shortcuts are installed in have always been prefixed with “Microsoft”. For reasons unknown to me, Microsoft has removed the “Microsoft” prefix from the Visual Studio 2013 Start menu folder, as shown in the following screenshot: As you can see in the above screenshot, you have to scroll down a ways to find Visual Studio 2013. If you happen to have…
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17 Oct 2013

Team Rooms Extension for Visual Studio 2013

Add-ins & Extensions, Visual Studio 2013
With Team Foundation Server 2013 (and the related Team Foundation Service), Microsoft introduced Team Rooms. Team rooms allow you to collaborate across one or more projects (you can create as many team rooms as you like) using an interface similar to common chat software (e.g. Microsoft Communicator or Facebook chat). If you would like to dig into the details of Team Rooms, check out Mickey Gousset’s article in the September issue of Visual Studio Magazine, Team Foundation Server Team Rooms. Currently, if developers want to interact with other team members via Team Rooms, they must leave the Visual Studio IDE…
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17 Oct 2013

Visual Studio 2013 RTM Available

TFS, Visual Studio 2013
Today, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2013 RTM (Release to Manufacturing), which includes Team Foundation Server 2013, for public availability.  The .NET Framework 4.5.1 is also included in this release. See what’s new in Visual Studio 2013 here. You can download Visual Studio 2013 now, from: Full Versions MSDN Subscribers – if you’re an MSDN subscriber then you can download the non-trial version now. Trial Versions – if you are not an MSDN subscriber, or simply want to install a trial version, you can download the trial products now.  Products available for download include: Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Visual Studio Premium…
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20 Sep 2013

TFS 2013 Power Tools Released

TFS, Utilities, Visual Studio
As of today, you can download the just-released Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools (compatible with TFS 2013 RC). If you’re not familiar with the TFS Power Tools, and you spend any amount of time working with TFS on a day-to-day basis, I highly recommend you check these out.This release is comprised of four separate downloads:Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools - this is a collection of multiple tools, including:Best Practices Analyzer (TFS application tier only)Check-in PoliciesProcess Template EditorStoryboard ShapesTeam Explorer EnhancementsTeam Foundation Power Tool Command Line (tfpt.exe)Test Attachment CleanerWindows PowerShell CmdletsWindows Shell ExtensionsWork Item TemplatesMicrosoft Visual…
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12 Sep 2013

Visual Studio 2013 RC Released

Visual Studio
This post is a couple of days behind but I thought I’d go ahead and put out a few links to help spread the word a little more :-).  As of September 9th, Visual Studio 2013 RC (Release Candidate) was made available for download on the Visual Studio web site.  This is a “go live” release which means you can run Visual Studio 2013 RC in a production environment and there will be a supported upgrade path to Visual Studio 2013 RTM.Visual Studio 2013 is expected to RTM along with Windows 8.1 GA (General Availability) which is slated for October…
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