Jason Zander announced today that Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 is RELEASED to web. The .NET Web Tools Team (the team I'm on) has coverage on their blog as well. I thought I'd showcase some Tiny Happy Features that the team worked on just because it made life better. Some are large some are small, but all are tiny happy features.
I'll continue for a few more Tiny Happy Features over the next few weeks but this last week I took some time and recorded 13 (ya, thirteen, oy) short videos to show you guys these features in action. These are SHORT videos that are at most 4 to 6 minutes. It's hard to watch 60 to 90 minute screencast so I did these little one-take quick shots so you could watch them at lunch.
If you watch all these videos it will take you less than an hour and you'll have a good practical idea of what's new in Web Development and Tools with Visual Studio 2012. This is by no means exhaustive, but it's a lot.
The other concept that's worth pointing out is One ASP.NET. We've pulled the Web Tooling and Templates out into extensions in Visual Studio 2012. This means we can update Web Tools without updating all of Visual Studio. I talked about this in the One ASP.NET keynote at aspConf. We'll be updating the tools - not in major scary ways - but in useful and important ways that make front end web development easier. We'll look at small updates either quarterly or maybe semi-annually so when a new technique comes out you don't have to wait for the next version of Visual Studio.
Download Visual Studio 2012
MSDN Subscribers can download now at the MSDN Subscriber Download Page. For volume licensing customers, Visual Studio 2012 products will be on the Volume Licensing Service Center tomorrow. If you want to download Visual Studio 2012 free trial versions, or to download the free Express versions, head over to the the Visual Studio product website.
Here's the 13 short videos showing each of my favorite features in just a few minutes.
Model Binding
HTML Editor
CSS Editor
JavaScript Editor
Page Inspector
ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms Strongly Typed Data Controls
Web Publishing Improvements
ASP.NET MVC 4
ASP.NET Web API
Bundling and Optimization
SignalR and Web Sockets
Async and Await
OAuth in the Default ASP.NET 4.5 Templates
Related Links
- Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 is RELEASED - Jason Zander's Blog
- The .NET Web Tools Team and the new Web Tools in Visual Studio 2012
- ASP.NET vNext Videos
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