What's New In Visual Studio 2012

USER INTERFACE

The RC includes a series of improvements to the overall UX, which were based on the beta user feedback. Now you can customize the look and feel of Visual Studio development environment as per your convenience. A new Dark Theme has been developed for this purpose.

Performance

The performance has been enhanced drastically with respect to its entire earlier version. The performance between beta and RC was extensive and covers just about every aspect

OAuth Overview

OAuth can be defined as follows:

1. OAuth is an open protocol that aims to standardize the way desktop and web applications access a user's private data. OAuth provides a mechanism for users to grant access to private data without sharing their private credentials (username/password). Many sites have started enabling APIs to use OAuth because of its security and standard set of libraries.

Team Foundation Service

New Features Of .NET 4.0

Introduction

This article contains some of the new features of ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 IDE.

Improvements in C# 4.0

C# in .NET Framework 4.0 has some more things to offer. These are:

• Dynamic lookup


• Named


• Optional parameters

Dynamic Lookup

There is a new static type named dynamic. We can use it as object of any type. If there is any error on its usage, we would get it on runtime only. For example:

dynamic integerValue = 1;
dynamic stringValue = " a string";
dynamic Result = integerValue + stringValue;