August 2013 – Technical Rollup Mail – Developer Tools
News
The Improved Microsoft Developer Network
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/07/31/the-improved-microsoft-developer-network.aspx
Visual Studio 2013 Preview Available
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=309297&clcid=0x409
InRelease for Visual Studio 2013 Preview Now Available
Visual Studio 2013 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine with Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts
Team Explorer Everywhere 2012 Update available
Load testing with Team Foundation Service - Launching Preview and Early Adoption Program
Load Testing Siebel Applications using Visual Studio
Idea books for commercial and enterprise app design—with sample code!
Visual Studio a leader in software quality suites
Visual Studio Unit Test Generator is feature complete – v1 Release Candidate lands!
Visual Studio 2012 tools for Git (0.9.5.0) are available
Performance and Diagnostics Hub in Visual Studio 2013
HTML UI Responsiveness tool in Visual Studio 2013
Energy Consumption tool in Visual Studio 2013
What is New in Code Analysis for Visual Studio 2013
Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview - Upgrade FAQ
Blogs
Developer Tools Blogs
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/developer-tools/
Visual Studio ALM + Team Foundation Server Blog
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/
Team Foundation Service
https://tfs.visualstudio.com/news/2013-jul-29
The Visual Studio Blog
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/
Microsoft Expression Blend Team Blog
Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/lightswitch/
Brian Harry’s blog
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/
Downloads
Visual Studio 2013 Preview
Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Preview is the state-of-the-art development solution that empowers teams of all sizes to design and create compelling apps to delight users. Sign in to Visual Studio within 14 days with your Microsoft account to synchronize your settings across multiple machines and register your product. For Visual Studio 2013 Preview, this experience is only available in English.
https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9832426
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview is a source-code-control, project-management, and team-collaboration platform at the core of the Microsoft suite of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, which help teams be more agile, collaborate more effectively, and deliver quality software more consistently.
https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9832356
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview
The .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview is a highly compatible, in-place update to the .NET Framework 4 and the .NET Framework 4.5.
https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9831985
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Preview SDK
The Visual Studio 2013 Preview SDK includes project templates, tools, tests, and reference assemblies that are required to build extensions for Visual Studio 2013 Preview.
https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9832352
New KB's
Description of Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 RC 1
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2872520/EN-US
HTTP 502 error when you connect to TFS 2013 by using Git clients on large "PUSH" requests
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2867441/EN-US
Users cannot select filters in the Search Results Page item template in a Windows Store app that you developed in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2866600/EN-US
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