Visual Studio 2012 Update 1

by Ayoub Umoru | Nov 27, 2012 | Visual Studio 2012 | 0 comments

The first Update for Visual Studio 2012 is out and contains a LOT of new features.
It feels like an Service Pack but Microsoft changed his strategy and is moving away -from big Releases to minor ones, like this Update.

Microsoft is also already working on an Update 2 Release.

Check out this awesome blogpost.

My personal higlights:

• OOB Load testing support for SharePoint 
• Unit test emulator for SharePoint
• Coded UI test support for SharePoint
• Intellitrace collection plan for SharePoint
• Cross browser testing for coded UI testing (IE, Chrome, Firefox, …)
• Usability improvements for Coded UI tests
• JavaScript Memory Profiling

Here is a high level summary of the contents, beside bug fixes and performance improvements.

SharePoint code quality

• Load testing support for SharePoint
• Unit test emulator for SharePoint
• Coded UI test support for SharePoint
• Intellitrace collection plan for SharePoint

Manual testing

• Editing of test cases from inside the test runner
• Code coverage support for manual testing of web apps
• Hierarchical query support
• Pause manual testing session and later resume a test case
• Deep copy of a test plan to better support release management
• Publish test results to TFS from command-line

Coded UI tests

• Cross browser testing for coded UI testing (IE, Chrome, Firefox, …)
• Usability improvements for Coded UI tests

Unit testing

• Windows Store C++ unit testing enhancements
• Windows Store Unit Test library enhancements
• Traits support for all adapters
• Unit Test Grouping and Filtering in Test Explorer Window

Version Control

• Associate multiple bugs with a checking at once in the Add by ID field (i.e. comma separated)
• Toolbar button to show/hide deleted items in the source control explorer
• Copy the name of a changeset/shelveset from the Changeset/Shelveset Details page
• Find a Shelveset by name from the Find Shelvesets page
• Include/exclude all items except those that are selected
• Know if my detected changes are adds or deletes before clicking the link
• Navigate to an item in source control explorer from pending changes page
• Undo changes to a file from the editor context menu
• Kanban support in TFS Web Access

Gerneral

• Extend TFS server side path limits from 260 characters to 400 characters
• SCVMM 2012 SP1 support with Lab Management for Windows 2012 host
• VSUpdate support for Microsoft Test Manager for automatic update notification
• Easier installation of unit test adapters on TFS build machines using Nuget
• Code Map – Incremental discovery and visualization of your application architecture and dependencies
• IntelliTrace Integration with System Center
• Integrate Blend Windows Phone Tooling
• Multiscale image support for manifest content
• JavaScript Memory Profiling
• Mixed Managed/Native Debugging Support for Store Apps
• ARM Native Dump Debugging Support
• Enable XP targeting with C++

TFS Web Access

• Drag and drop queries and query folders
• Drag/drop between User Stories and People in the Taskboard
• Drag a task to a person to assign it in the Taskboard
• Expand and Collapse the left navigation pane
• Remember the state of the splitters
• Animate Taskboard tiles on drop
• Next/Previous arrows on WIT form
• Updated navigation styling
• Links and Attachments in WIT form shows counts

You can download Update 1

Online using WebInstaller here.

Offline here