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March 2012 - Visual Studio Blog

Round-tripping with Visual Studio 11

March 28, 2012 Mar 28, 2012 03/28/12
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About two years ago we wrote a blog post entitled Why does Visual Studio 2010 convert my projects? One of the strong pieces of feedback we received was that you wanted to be able to work on your projects using both the current and previous version of VS. We are delighted to announce that Visual Studio 11 will allow you to easily round-trip ...

The Visual Studio 11 Beta Survey is Live!

March 21, 2012 Mar 21, 2012 03/21/12
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It’s been just 3 weeks since we released Visual Studio 11 Beta, and we’d like to hear what you think! Let us know your impressions by taking the Visual Studio 11 Beta survey.We do these surveys with most of our releases, and they help us gauge how we are doing with core areas such as performance, reliability, and quality. In this ...

Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance Part #2

March 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012 03/12/12
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Welcome back to part 2 of the Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance series.  This week’s topic is Solution Load.   We received a great deal of feedback from you clearly telling us that it takes too long to get into your code when loading solutions.   I would like to introduce Nathan Halstead, from the Visual Studio Pro Team, whose information ...