The new unit testing explorer support has a new unit test explorer has a Run dropdown for selecting which text to execute (see Figure 1). In addition, Visual Studio 11 supports continuous testing – automatically running your tests every time you compile your code. However, as shown in Figure 1, the option to enable continuous […]
One of the “easter egg” (meaning not intuitively discoverable) features in the Storyboarding for Visual Studio is the fact that text boxes (of any kind – Text Areas, Text Input, Text…) you can type “=Lorem()” followed by ENTER to fill the text box with Lorem Ipsum text as shown here:
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 supports SMTP Settings as shown in the following screen shot. As shown in the screen capture, it even supports a Certificate Thumbprint. As a result, you can configure gmail as your email server for Team Foundation Server: smtp.gmail.com, Port 465, Enable SSL.
One feature new to Visual Studio 11 that you will wonder how you managed without (perhaps instead you wondered why it was missing from Visual Studio for so long) is the concept of “Search Everywhere.” In Visual Studio 11 search is now supported for the following: Solution Explorer* Add Reference* Integrated Quick Find* New Test Explorer […]
In Visual Studio 11, there is a set of IDE productivity improvements that developers across all platforms and languages already be familiar with because earlier versions of them were available in an update for Visual Studio 2010 under the name Productivity Power Tools. In post we review several of these enhancements. In Visual Studio 11 […]