So the new versions of my favorite development tool were released this week and I am very excited about the new features

Without doubts the best feature introduced by this version are the CodeLens

CodeLens allows to quickly see the number of references and if you have it integrated with TFS 2013 you can also see the last person who made changes and the number of changes associated to the class or method.

This is a very non-intrusive or distractive way to show helpful information about the code.

Clicking on the references you can navigate quickly to the part of the code that is referencing this class or method

Clicking on the name of the person who made the last change or in the changes number you will easily navigate to the Changeset

Another great feature is the ALT+F12, before VS 2013 the way to navigate to the method definition was by using the F12 key which opened the code on a separate tab making it very hard to follow the code. Now you can use the Peek definition or ALT+F12 to see the class or method defection inside the same tab as follows

I am still learning about the new features of this new version but these 2 new features described above worth moving to 2013 without any doubts.

If you want to start using it you can download the trial versions from here

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads

Enjoy coding!