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Visual Studio 25th Anniversary!! I have used Visual Studio for 25 years!!

Time flies!

It is Visual Studio 25th Anniversary. It also means that I have worked on Visual Studio for 25 years too. (Oh no, getting old so fast…… from a young kid to an old man…)

[1997] I learn NT3.51 and VB during my last year on my bachelor degree study. I graduated from my bachelor degree. I still remember that I learn VB5 with VS1997 in my first job in a software company which is a Microsoft Certified Partner.

 

[1999] Then I start using VS 6.0 for VB6, Traditional ASP, and also using Visual SourceSafe.

 

[2000] Then I start building .NET application from VS.NET beta. At the same time, I heard from Microsoft .NET team saying that .NET will be last for at least 10 years, from 2000 to 2010. It will be the first language to do all the Web Development and Win Development in same preferred programming language.  Microsoft introduce C# at the same time. I choose staying in VB.NET as I have VB background. Start developing some Web Services.

[2001-2003] I made friends with other local .NET developers and also local Microsoft MSDN team. We then formed a local community HK .NET User Group. At the same time, I participle a lot on Microsoft Forum HK and TW. I was then awarded to be Microsoft Community Star TW, then Microsoft Community Star HK, and then Microsoft MVP @TW on VB technology.

 

[2005] .NET Framework 2.0 released with VS2005. As being VB MVP and attended 3 times Global MVP Summit. We VB MVPs always complained that the sample code are in C# more than VB.NET in MSDN library. in the end of 2005, I started moving into C#. I could do VB.NET and C# at the same time.

 

[2006] I helped VB team to translate the hands on lab from C# into VB.NET.
Windows Workflow Foundation and Visual Basic .NET
My previous blog links:
Windows Workflow Foundation(WF) Hands-On Lab01 to Lab03 in VB2005
Finished the Translation on WF HOL Lab04 to VB2005

 

[2008] Microsoft introduced Entity Framework. We called it Database-First EDM.

 

[2010] With VS2010, I start learning and developing ASP.NET MVC. Microsoft released Silverlight, a web version of WPF. (at least I think so)

 

[2012] EF 4 released, now it supported Code-First EDM.

 

[2015] EF 6, Owin, OAuth, WebAPI…

 

[2017] MVC5, Dependency Injection, .Net Core…

 

[2019] .NET Core 3

 

[2022] .NET core and .NET Framework now becomes .NET, starting from .NET 5. With this version, the experience on windows app development is not good as in VS2019. Specially right after I stopped the debugger.

 

Now, you could also download this special VS 25th Anniversary Theme Pack. Don’t wait, get it and try it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 is released

On 14th July, 2021, VS2022 Preview 2 is released.

There are some highlighted new features.

  1. New Font that is easier to read, Cascadia Code
  2. New refreshed Icons, that are clearer and easier to distinguish.
  3. Preview 1 was available only in English. Preview 2 now is fully localized. The supported language packs: English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
  4. Now VS2002 will be the best place to build cross-platform apps. With Preview 2, we’ve extended our cross-platform capabilities, adding new CMake integration and seamless targeting for WSL2—with no need for manual configuration.
  5. Next Wave of cross platform apps with .NET MAUI and Blazor are ready in Preview 2.
  6. New Live Preview experiences for both XAML and web apps. You will be able to make those iterative changes to your application in the editor. And you could see the difference in real time. No more recompile-and-run when you just want to nudge something by a pixel or two! This is also provided in Preview 2 already.
  7. Hot Reload. It is including support for C++ apps. When you are able to edit C++ or .NET projects even the application is still running. You can also apple code changes without pausing your application. An “Apply code changes” button in the toolbar is added, by clicking it you can “reload” you updated code into the running application without stop and re-run with the latest code.

And more…

There are many more other new features are available in Preview 2. You may visit this page,  Summary of What’s New in this Release of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 Preview 2 to view the full list and more details.

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Visual Studio 2022 (v17.0) Preview 1.1

In the past, I have blog that VS2022 Public Preview will be released in the summer time. It has been released and you could download and try it now.

On 17th June, 2021, VS Team has released VS2022 Preview 1.0.
Yesterday (24th June, 2021) VS Team released, VS2022 Preview 1.1.

The only issue addressed in Preview 1.1 on top of the Preview 1.0 is,

  • Fixed an issue causing Test Explorer to run very slow

What’s New in Preview 1.0?

  • Devenv.exe is now 64-bit
  • .NET 6 SDK (preview) is included in VS2022 Preview 1.0
  • New Git experience
  • …More

Some features are not yet ready in this preview 1.0/1.1

  • Web Live Preview
  • Instrumentation profiler
  • Azure Cloud Service project support
  • T-SQL debugger
  • Web Load Test and TestController/TestAgent
  • Azure DataLake
  • Coded UI Test
  • DotFuscator
  • Incredibuild IDE integration
  • IntelliCode find and replace by example

 

Try the Preview now

More Detail: Microsoft Official Site – Visual Studio 2022 Preview

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Next version of Visual Studio, “VS2022”, Public Preview will be released this summer

Amanda Silver, CVP of Product-Developer Division announce that the next version of Visual Studio will be called VS2022. And its Public Preview will be available to download this summer. Let me do a short summary about the changes and share with you.

  • IDE will be running faster
    • VS2022 will be in 64-bit
  • New Design
    • Better clarity, legibility, and contrast
    • Cascadia Code
    • Personalization, you could make your own “IDE” just right for you.
  • Develop Modern Apps
    • Azure, better integration with GitHub for CI/CD, and with Azure
    • VS2022 will have full support for .NET 6.
    • .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) will be included. You could build client apps on Windows, Android, macOS, iOS. You could also use ASP.NET Blazor for Web App.
  • Innovation 
    • Performance improved for Diagnostics and Debugging
    • Using Live Share to enable Real-Time Collaboration
    • AI IntelliCode engine provide more and deeper integrations into your daily workflows.
    • New support for Git and GitHub.
    • Improved Code Search
    • refreshing VS for Mac

Well, let’s wait and test this new VS2022 in the coming summer time.  Meanwhile, you could read from the original post here.

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Useful links to learn Windows 10 and VS2015

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I am sure that you all are new to Win10 and VS2015. You may be looking for learning resource. Here I listed some of the sample site for you and so you could get some learning on these 2 new products.

Opportunity URLs Remarks
Developer Tools Download https://www.visualstudio.com/ Download any Visual Studio skus, including VS 2015
Developer for Windows 10  -What’s New
Get Started
Design
Develop
Publish		 https://dev.windows.com/en-us/getstarted/whats-new-windows-10/
https://dev.windows.com/en-us/getstarted/
https://dev.windows.com/en-us/design/
https://dev.windows.com/en-us/develop/
https://dev.windows.com/en-us/publish/		 All the info developers may need to write apps
Windows 10 courses in MVA https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/en-US/training-courses/getting-started-with-windows-10-for-it-professionals-10629/ Great site to get online courses on Windows 10
Channel https://channel9.msdn.com/windows/ Another great online resource for Windows 10 related videos
Windows 10 Jumpstart http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/preparing-your-enterprise-for-windows-10-as-a-service/ A live event on August 14th