New Features of Visual Studio 2013

I have categorized the new features into four general sections:

IDE Enhancements (00:40)

• Can keep your settings in sync through Login, type synchronized in the Quick Launch window
• Scaffolding New Project selection window
• Tools->Options is searchable (+ resizable)
• Notifications Center
• Track active item or Sync active document
• Edit and Continue on IIS x64
• Voice Commands (http://tinyurl.com/pzv2yzy)

General Code Improvements (12:30)

• Code Lens (http://tinyurl.com/codelens)
• Suspending your work - TFS
• Navigate To (Ctrl+,)
• Peek Window (Alt+F12)
• Enhanced scrollbar is now in VS
• Same class – two views
• See the return value of a method
• Alt + up/down arrows to move line of code/text up or down

“betterized” HTML (29:30)

• BrowserLink
• Intellisense for HTML Entities and data- attributes
• What’s with Alt+1, 1, 1 and Alt+2?
• Image tag metadata
• VS 2013 knows AngularJS

“coolified” JavaScript and CSS (46:00)

• Script References (http://tinyurl.com/kg3j7jg)
• Intellisense for vendor specifics, media queries, pseudo classes
• Color picker in CSS gets boost