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Editor's Notes

• #39: Projects & Solutions Backwards compatibility Work with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 projects and files in both Visual Studio 2012 RC and Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Browse code in Solution Explorer. Browse the types and members in your projects, search for symbols, view a method’s Call Hierarchy, find symbol references, and perform other tasks without switching between multiple tool windows. Window Management Pin & Preview Reduce file clutter in the editor by viewing files without opening them. Preview files appear in a blue tab on the right side of the document tab well. The file opens if you modify it or choose the Open button. Access frequently used files more easily. Pin files that you use often to the left side of the tab well so that you can access them easily regardless of how many files are open in the IDE. Multi-Mon Arrange windows on multiple monitors more effectively. Dock multiple floating tool or document windows together as a “raft” on other monitors. You can also create multiple instances of Solution Explorer and move them to another monitor. Search everywhere Search across the IDE. Specify a word or a phrase, and then choose an entry from the list to open the dialog box or window that’s associated with the item or command. Search in tool windows. Filter the view by entering a keyword in the search box at the top of certain tool windows, such as the Toolbox, Solution Explorer, Error List, and Team Explorer.
• #40: Moving on from Windows Store applications, let’s look at some of the productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2012. Specify more semantic colorization. More C++ tokens now have colorization by default, and you can specify more colorizations. Use improved reference highlighting. You can highlight all instances of a symbol just by pointing to one instance. Choose member functions as you type. The List Members list appears automatically as you enter text in the code editor. Results are filtered so that only relevant members appear. Take advantage of C++/CLI IntelliSense. C++/CLI now supports IntelliSense features such as Quick Info, Parameter Help, List Members, and Auto Completion. Speed up your coding by using code snippets. You can choose a code snippet from the List Members list and then fill in the required logic. Snippets are available for switch, if-else, for, and other basic code constructs. You can also create custom snippets.
• #41: Visual Studio 2012 brings a lot of new features to the ALM suite across the board to help developers be more productive. To name some: User Story/Product Backlog mgmt, Lightweight Requirements, Sprint planning, Taskboards planning, Context Switching etc. At the same time there are significant additions that will wow the C++ developers. Static Code Analysis Static analysis for C++ has been updated to provide richer error context information, more analysis rules, and better analysis results. For certain C++ warnings, the message lists source lines to show you the execution path that led to the warning. Here are some other code analysis enhancements: New concurrency warnings help you make sure that you are using the correct locking disciplines in multithreaded C/C++ programs. The analyzer detects potential race conditions, lock order inversions, caller/callee locking contract violations, mismatched synchronization operations, and other concurrency bugs. You can specify the C++ rules that you want to apply to code analysis runs by using rule sets. Updated Unit Test Framework Use the new C++ unit test framework in Visual Studio to write C++ unit tests. Add a new unit test project to your existing C++ solution by locating the C++ Unit Test Project template under the Visual C++ category in the New Project dialog box. Start writing your unit tests in the generated TEST_METHOD code stub in the Unittest1.cpp file. When the test code is written, build the solution. When you want to run the tests, open a Unit Test Explorer window by choosing View, Other Windows, Unit Test Explorer, and then, on the shortcut menu for the test case you want, choose Run selected test. After the test run finishes, you can view test results and additional stack trace information in the same window. Architecture Dependency Graphs To understand your code better, you can now generate dependency graphs for the binary, class, namespace, and include files in a solution. Architecture Explorer By using the Architecture Explorer, you can explore the assets in your C++ solution, projects, or files. On the menu bar, choose Architecture, Windows, Architecture Explorer. Code Coverage Code coverage has been updated to dynamically instrument binaries at runtime. This lowers the configuration overhead and provides better performance. You can also collect code-coverage data from unit tests for C++ app.