Features of Visual Studio 2011

Introduction

In October Month Microsoft has announced the latest version of Visual studio11 and Team Foundation server 11. New version has the following new features.

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Latest Features of Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview

  • Visual studio 2011 provides a new development experience from architecture to coding and testing.
  • It includes new features for Asynchronous programming for VB.Net & C#.
  • Now you can develop applications which targets to cloud computing.
  • Smart Task: Visual Studio 2011 Introduce smart task for complex & commonly used features. now using smart task you can add data source to your data repeater control from source view it self, earlier this feature is based on properties.
  • ASP.Net MVC 4
  • It has solid integration with HTML 5 and CSS3.
  • Now you can run your application in design mode, just to see how your page will looks in actual.
  • Good News for JavaScript developer, Now it's new editor is based on IE10, it has the features like automatic matching of braces, you can move to the definition,
  • You can develop metro style application. You can develop enhanced games on VS 2011.

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  • Now you can edit your code in execution time.
  • New dialog box for add reference with faster response.
  • New Template for Mobile Development, which made mobile development easier. And with the help of new assemblies you can choose the display modes of your normal web page and you can render your page either on mobile or browser depends up on the requirement.
  • In this new version you will experience a complete new and improved version of JavaScript which includes features like navigation, brace matching, code outline and many more.
  • You will experience with a new express version of IIS for development purpose. You can still use Development server, however IIS Express version is a default option for Visual studio 2011.
  • New publishing profile: Now you can switch build profile to publishing profile.
  • Implementation of Anti XSS Library, now you can directly implement core feature of Anti xss library in asp.net 4.5, you can implement this features you can make the changes in web.config.
  • Support for web socket protocol: they help us in long running data transfer between server and client. In Asp.net 4.5 and IIS 8 both supports to web socket programming, so that we can easily read and write binary data on a socket object.

And many more guys don't wait, just explore.

Download Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview