Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview

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By jalpesh On 02 Oct 2011 05:10:46

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Introduction

The purpose of the this article to explore the new features about Visual Studio 2011 Developer preview.The Visual Studio 2011 is another great release by Micrsoft for developers with lots of features and enhancements.Very recently before some days at Build Conference on September 14,2011 Microsoft has announced release of “Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview. You can download that from following link.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh127353

I have downloaded the .NET framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 Developer preview from the above link and the I have installed .NET Framework 4.5 like below.

Once after I have installed .NET Framework 4.5. I have installed Visual Studio 11 Developer preview like following.

After installing once you load Visual Studio 11 developer preview it will look like following. It is much similar look like Visual Studio 2010.

What’s new in Visual Studio11 Developer Preview ?

There are lots of new features in Visual Studio11 Developer preview let’s go through some of new features like following.
Create new project template:

New project template is almost same except there are .NET Framework 4.5 selection is also available with other framework 3.5 and 4.0.

Solution Explorer

In solution explorer if you compare the stuff there are lots of new feature’s are available. You can see there are lots of Icon there in solution explorer compare to Visual Studio 2010.

Now you can do lots of things with Solution Explorer like Browsing Types,type members, search symbols and find relationship among them. I will explain them all this features in other part of this article series.

Quick Launch

Another new feature you will notice is a Quick Launch. You can find lots of command and other stuff in visual studio from here. Suppose you want to create a new page then just type new it will give you all the options with new just like following.

Line Highlighter

Another things I have found is line highlighter in code editor. It will highlight the current line in Editor.

There are so many other features that needs to be discover. I will post that in the future soon.stay tuned with codegain for discover all new features of Visual Studio 2011.

About Author

jalpesh

Occupation	-	Software Engineer
Company	-	DotNetJaps
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Location	-	India
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I am jalpesh vadgamaa an Microsoft MVP for Visual C# and BrainBench Certified ASP.NET Developer having experience of five year in Microsoft .NET Technology.I am working as Project Leader in Mid Size company.My work area comprises of Enterprise Level projects using ASP.NET and other Microsoft .NET Technologies.Please feel free to contact me for any queries via posting comments on my blog I will try to reply as early as possible.


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