Visual Studio 2013 Preview.... available

djkav · 26 Jun 2013 at 21:45

Up with the Windows 8.1 Preview is a nice hidden gem...

The Visual Studio 2013 Preview.

Download available here

Haircut · 26 Jun 2013 at 22:27

So, what's new over 2012 other than it can use the Windows 8.1 API?
Have they got rid of the god awful caps menus yet?

djkav · 26 Jun 2013 at 22:48

I think the daft CAPS menus are still there. Its mainly streamlining Windows 8 App development direct in the IDE, and App profiling from within the IDE.

BTW: Here is a registry edit to get rid of those menu caps

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General\SuppressUppercaseConversion
REG_DWORD value: 1

topbanana · 27 Jun 2013 at 07:57

.net 4.5.1 has opt-in large object heap compaction
Visual Studio 2013 has better async debugging
x64 edit and continue (finally)

GravyMonster · 27 Jun 2013 at 10:29

djkav said:
BTW: Here is a registry edit to get rid of those menu caps

That was literally the FIRST thing I did when I installed VS2012, it was like being shouted at by the menu.

Haircut · 27 Jun 2013 at 12:02

We had a presentation by some guys from Microsoft where I'm currently working and they mentioned about 64-bit edit and continue then.
Great that they've done that, but I can't help but feel it's pretty useless as it still doesn't work in code with lambdas.

topbanana · 27 Jun 2013 at 17:35

Haircut said:
We had a presentation by some guys from Microsoft where I'm currently working and they mentioned about 64-bit edit and continue then.
Great that they've done that, but I can't help but feel it's pretty useless as it still doesn't work in code with lambdas.

Useless is a strong word. Inconvenient at best surely?

Haircut · 27 Jun 2013 at 19:24

topbanana said:
Useless is a strong word. Inconvenient at best surely?

Well, virtually everything I write apart from the most trivial of methods contains lambdas, so yeah - it's pretty much useless to me.