Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 2 Released

Microsoft released Update 2 to Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 on Friday. Here are highlights from various blog posts on it:

Developer Experience

• Code Map Debugger Integration and Responsiveness Improvements
• Blend, SketchFlow & XAML Editors
• Blend for Visual Studio supporting WPF, Silverlight and SketchFlow projects
• Performance & reliability improvements when using the XAML design surfaces in Visual Studio and Blend and XAML editor in Visual Studio
• Web based version control Explore and Compare
• Fakes now available in Visual Studio Premium
• The ability to clone test cases in Microsoft Test Manager
• LightSwitch HTML Client – Support for HTML5 and the new SharePoint/0365 Apps Model
• New Blue Theme for Visual Studio IDE
• ASP.NET & Web Tools 2012.2 (Update 2) is included in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (no changes from stand-alone release)
• Extended cross browser support in Coded UI Testing
• Coded user interface testing support for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7

Web based Test Case Management

• Enable adding attachments to test outcomes
• Enable pausing and resuming test execution
• Enable adding attachments to test outcomes
• Enable pausing and resuming test execution
• Enable editing Test case during Test Execution
• Inline editing of text of test steps and results in the test execution of the browser based test management

Web based Agile Planning

• Work Item Filtering
• Team Foundation Server Work Item Tagging
• Customize columns in the Team Foundation Kanban Board

SharePoint Specific Development Enhancements

• SharePoint 2013 and SharePonnt User Profile diagnostics support with IntelliTrace
• Symbol Loading improvements for IntelliTrace and Profiler
• SharePoint◦Microsoft SharePoint 2013 support in Coded UI Testing
• Advanced SharePoint 2010 Load Testing

Testing

• Test Explorer Enhancements
• Test Explorer group tests by Class
• Test Explorer test playlists
• Test Explorer test details improvements for Coded UI Tests
• Unit Testing◦Fakes now available in Visual Studio Premium
• Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)
• The ability to clone test cases in Microsoft Test Manager

TFS

• Team Foundation Server 2012 compatibility with 2010 Build Servers
• Team Explorer Enhancements
• New Team Explorer Connection dialog display multiple servers, TPCs and projects
• TFS Upgrades & Availability
• TFS Update 2 Offers Settings
• Preservation for In-Place Upgrades
• Servicing in High Availability SQL Environments

Windows Phone

• Windows Store◦Windows Store App UI Responsiveness Analyzer (HTML/JavaScript)
• Improvements in Windows Store Applications Unit Testing
• Windows App Certification Kit (latest version)
• Windows Phone
• TDD for Windows Phone Unit Tests