The Visual Studio 2012 Feedback Tool: A better way to submit bugs
Microsoft Visual Studio has had a long and successful run over the last decade plus, and much of that success has been through the partnership with our customers along the way. We believe that you can...
View ArticleImproved Toolbox Performance Delivers Highly Responsive Visual Studio 2012
As mentioned in the previous performance post on Typing and Editing we would follow with a post on the improvements to Visual Studio 2012 from enhancements in the Toolbox. I would like to introduce...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012 released to the web!
On August 15th, we announced the release of Visual Studio 2012 to the web! Make sure to visit Somasegar’s Blog for the announcement, and if you haven’t downloaded yet, check out Jason Zander’s Blog for...
View ArticleNew Visual Studio 2012 Debugging Features for the Windows 8 App Lifecycle Model
Windows 8 brings a new app lifecycle model, in which Windows Store apps are automatically managed for the user. These apps always feel alive, even though they never run when they’re off the screen....
View ArticleVisual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop is Here
A few months ago, Soma announced plans for a Visual Studio Express 2012 edition for Windows Desktop. Today, we are happy to share that this new Express product is available for download. (You can find...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012 SimShip Partners
A month ago we launched Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 at our launch event (http://www.visualstudiolaunch.com) in Seattle. At this event and online, we had a number of sessions showing how Visual Studio...
View ArticleNuGet for Windows Store App Developers
In Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 you’ll see that we have included the popular NuGet package manager by default and customized it to include a Windows 8 packages feed that presents you a...
View ArticleYour Visual Studio, Your Colors
Since releasing Visual Studio 2012 we have continued on our investment in the user experience space to enable you to work more efficiently and to make the Visual Studio experience engaging and...
View ArticleIntroducing Windows Phone SDK 8.0
It gives us great pleasure to announce that today at //build/ we launched the Windows Phone 8 development story. We have enhanced the existing Visual Studio 2012 developer tools to support development...
View ArticleProductivity Power Tools 2012
By popular request, the new version of the Productivity Power Tools has arrived for Visual Studio 2012! These tools are the fruit of a few passionate engineers on the Visual Studio team that love...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012 Update 1 is here
Today, the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Visual Studio 2012.1) is available for download. You can get it now via the Visual Studio 2012.1 download page (see "Visual Studio 2012 Update 1" under the...
View ArticleJavaScript memory analysis for Windows Store apps in Visual Studio 2012
In Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, we introduced a JavaScript memory analysis tool for Windows Store apps to help developers, you, build apps that do not leak memory, so that these apps are more reliable,...
View ArticleNow Available - SQL Server Data Tools and Office Developer Tools for Visual...
This week we released two new sets of tools, which help Visual Studio 2012 users take advantage of the latest Microsoft development platforms.SQL Server Data ToolsYesterday we released SQL Server Data...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012 Update 2 is here
We’re excited to announce that today, Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2) is now available for download.For an overview of the five areas of investments in VS2012.2 that we made across agile...
View ArticleAnnouncing availability of ISOs for Visual Studio Updates
Last month, we shipped Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2). We’re continuing to see good uptake of the Update releases, with the majority of Visual Studio 2012 users now running on VS Update. We’re...
View ArticleA DESIGN WITH ALL-CAPS
Let’s talk about the all-caps menus.When we shared the RC design preview with you, we expected the uppercase menu would generate mixed feedback and emotions. We had seen similar reactions from early...
View ArticleVisual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop
With Visual Studio 2012, we strive to provide the best development experience across all Microsoft platforms. This includes enabling developers to bring to life the richness of Windows desktop...
View ArticleA World of Samples at your Fingertips
Samples are the primary way that we as developers learn to develop applications for a new platform. We use samples as a starting point to learn about new APIs, we reference them when we hit bugs in our...
View ArticleThe Visual Studio 2012 Feedback Tool: A better way to submit bugs
Microsoft Visual Studio has had a long and successful run over the last decade plus, and much of that success has been through the partnership with our customers along the way. We believe that you can...
View ArticleImproved Toolbox Performance Delivers Highly Responsive Visual Studio 2012
As mentioned in the previous performance post on Typing and Editing we would follow with a post on the improvements to Visual Studio 2012 from enhancements in the Toolbox. I would like to introduce...
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