Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1 Released

2013-10-17

Microsoft just released the new development tool Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1.

The Main New Features or Improvement in for Visual Studio 2013

  • One ASP.NET
  • ASP.NET Scaffolding
  • Browser Link
  • Windows Azure Web Sites Support in Visual Studio
  • NuGet 2.7
  • **ASP.NET MVC 5
    **- ASP.NET Web API 2
  • ASP.NET SignalR 2
  • ASP.NET Identity
  • Entity Framework 6

Microsoft’s ScottGu’s blog and ASP.NET official website both announced the release information, but another Scott, hanselman has not yet released his idea about this.

About .NET Framework 4.5.1, it also a big release than we expected:

  • X64 edit and continue (Improve x64 debugger so Edit and Continue works when running on Windows x64 o/s)
  • Async-aware debugging
  • Managed return value inspection
  • ADO.NET idle connection resiliency
  • Improvements in Windows Store app development
  • ADO.NET connection resiliency
  • ASP.NET app suspension
  • Multi-core JIT improvements

see .NET Framework official site.

From the new features list, Visual Studio 2013 and .NET framework 4.5.1 bring us great new tech and big changes.