Soma just announced that Visual Studio 2013 has been released to the web!
We are super excited to get this release out the door and into your hands. Visual Studio 2013 contains a ton of new tools for developers to build best of breed, modern applications and services.
WHAT’S NEW?
For starters, all the goodness we released starting in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 is also part of Visual Studio 2013. This means you can build cross-browser, mobile-first HTML5 apps that can run on any modern touch device and optionally publish these apps to a SharePoint 2013 app catalog.
In addition, you’ll find a lot of new LightSwitch features in this release, things like:
- New Office 365 Cloud Business App project type
- Better Team Development Support:
- Database Projects (SSDT) Support
- Solution Explorer Enhancements&Multi-Designer Support
- New Table Control
- DateTimeOffset Support
- Choice List Improvements
- Created By / Modified By fields on tables
- Person Business Type
- SharePoint social & Lync integration
- And much more!
We’ll continue to dive into the details with more posts. For now, head to the LightSwitch Developer Center and take a look at some of our new resources. You can also read about What’s New in Visual Studio 2013.
We are also happy to announce the release of a new LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit for Visual Studio 2013! Head to the Extensibility page on the Dev Center for more details.
THANK YOU!
On behalf of the LightSwitch team I want to thank all of you who reported bugs and suggestions through our forum, connect, UserVoice, this blog, and emails to the team. Many of the most valuable product improvements are drawn from forum posts and discussions. We very much appreciate you taking the time to try the Visual Studio 2013 prereleases and provide feedback. Thank you especially to these folks who helped us track down the trickiest of bugs and dedicated time out of their busy schedules to work with us directly on fixing issues and making LightSwitch the best release it could be!
| Adam Cogan Alessandro Del Sole Ashley Zhang Cesar De la Torre Llorente Christopher Maduro Dan Beall David Archer | David Baker Derek Fluker Ian MacPherson Jan Van der Haegen John Juback Martin Horner Michael Washington | Pat Tormey Paul Van Bladel Robert MacLean Stephen J Naughton Xander van der Merwe |
LAUNCH!
Mark your calendars and join us on the Visual Studio 2013 virtual launch event on November 13th. There will be live streaming of the launch keynotes and a ton of on-demand videos on all the new features in Visual Studio – directly from Visual Studio team members. And stay tuned for more samples, articles and videos here from the LightSwitch team!
Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Community Manager, Visual Studio LightSwitch Team