The connected IDE

Themes and visual design

Improved Editor, higher productivity!

IDE performance improvements

What is new for web developers

Performance tools & debugging

Sign into the IDE with your Microsoft Account

Move seamlessly between your machines

Synchronize settings across your devices

Get up and running faster

Keep Visual Studio up-to-date

Easily determine what’s important

Address later

One common location

Send your Feedback to Visual Studio team directly.

If you are happy let them know.

If you frustrated about feature, or you faced a bug just go there and report it.

More than 400 icons have been changed for better coloring and contrast

Better border lines to define areas and regions

Vivid Hover colors.

Active/inactive instances

Enhanced scrollbar

Move lines

Peek Definition

CodeLens

New project templates

And much more…

Solution load time is improved

IDE startup and responsiveness

Improvements are driven by data from Customer Experience Improvement program

Unified project templates

Full support for HTML5

Improvements in page inspector

Intellisense for AngularJS and Knockout

Improved CSS3 editor and JS editor

Browser link

One launch point for all profiling tools

New energy consumption monitor tool

New XAML UI responsiveness tool

What’s new in VS 2013:msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb386063(v=vs.120).aspx

Visual Studio blog:blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/

Visual Studio Toolbox on Channel 9:channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox