What's New in Visual Studio 11 for C++ Developers Version: 1.2.0 Description In Visual Studio 11, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Visual C++ ships with several new features and improvements that will make the C++ developer more productive with daily code focused tasks. Through this lab you will learn how to take advantage of these new features. Overview In Visual Studio 11, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Visual C++ ships with several new features and improvements that will make the C++ developer more productive with daily code-focused tasks. First, the Solution Explorer has been greatly empowered in the new version of Visual Studio. It has been enhanced to combine Class View, Object Browser, Find References, Navigate To, and other code-browsing features into a single tool window. Now Solution Explorer enables you to not only browse the files of a solution but also the content in the code files, including their types and members, without having to switch between multiple tool windows. In the previous version of Visual Studio, C++ code was displayed in black, except for reserved words, preprocessor directives or code comments. In this new version, code colorization and styling have been enhanced. This makes it easier to scan code and infer more semantic meaning. Additionally, when you place your text cursor on a symbol, all the instances of that symbol in the file are highlighted, which helps you better understand larger pieces of code. In previous releases of Visual Studio, the IntelliSense member drop-down list had to be explicitly invoked. In Visual Studio 11, the member drop-down list now automatically displays and is filtered to show only relevant members. In addition, IntelliSense features now work with C++/CLI. In the customization area, Visual Studio 11 supports the Visual Studio Templates (vstemplates) format for authoring C++ project and item templates. Any custom C++ templates can now leverage the infrastructure for online publishing in the extension gallery. Throughout this lab, you will learn how to use and benefit from each of these new features and more! Note: This lab covers only IDE features that are unique to Visual C++. To review features that are shared by all Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ and Visual F#, see A Lap Around the Visual Studio 11 Development Environment lab. The online version of this lab is at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/VS11TrainingCourse_LapAroundDev11. Objectives In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to: Take advantage of the new C++ features in the Visual Studio 11 development environment Create, deploy and use your own code snippets for Visual C++ Create and use your own Item and Project templates for Visual C++ Prerequisites Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 with Service Pack 1 (for Exercise 1, Task 1) Exercises This hands-on lab includes the following exercises: New Editor Features for Visual C++ Authoring Code Snippets for Visual C++ Item and Project Templates for Visual C++ Estimated time to complete this lab: 60 minutes. next >

Downloads Download Hands-on Lab Document (DOCX) Download Hands-on Lab Source Files Contents Overview Exercise 1: New Editor Features for Visual C++ Exercise 2: Authoring Code Snippets for Visual C++ Exercise 3: Custom Visual C++ Item and Project Templates