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Visual Studio 2013 Preview released

Monday 1st July, 2013


Despite Visual Studio 2012 being less than a year old, Microsoft released a preview build of its successor last week at the //build/ conference to coincide with the preview of Windows 8.1.

Normally when a new version of Visual Studio reaches beta we have to make lots of changes to adapt to regressions and interface changes within the new version. In that respect Visual Studio 2012 was no different - adapting to the new IDE theming alone took several months. Visual Studio 2010 was even worse - as well as having to adapt to major changes to the project system some of the underlying command bar interfaces we use were fundamentally broken at RTM.

However, given the short timescale (at least in Visual Studio terms) between Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, the changes in the IDE itself are minimal - as are (therefore) the changes to Visual Lint itself.

In fact, once we had a Visual Studio 2013 Preview build installed in a VM on Thursday morning it only took a few hours to work through the changes - and everything was checked in by Friday afternoon:

A development build of Visual Lint running within the Visual Studio 2013 Preview
A development build of Visual Lint running within the Visual Studio 2013 Preview.

As a result we are happy to be able to say that preliminary support for Visual Studio 2013 will shortly be released in Visual Lint 4.0.5.204.

This build will also include draft PC-lint indirect files for Visual Studio 2013 - once these have been shaken down we will obviously submit them to Gimpel for distribution via the PC-lint 9.0 patch page.

If you want to try the new version of the IDE, Visual Studio 2013 preview downloads are available at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/2013-downloads.

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