{"id":862,"date":"2012-05-31T15:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=862"},"modified":"2012-05-31T15:41:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:41:17","slug":"visual-studio-2012-release-candidate-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/visual-studio-2012-release-candidate-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 4px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image_thumb9.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"53\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s release of the Windows 8 \/ Server 2012 downloads isn\u2019t the only news for techie-types that want to live on the bleeding edge.&#160; Microsoft has also released the Release Candidate versions of Visual Studio 2012.&#160; You can find the downloads on MSDN (of course) and from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/11\/en-us\/downloads\">Visual Studio 2012<\/a> (formerly Visual Studio 11) product page.&#160; Related products, like the Express Editions and Team Foundation Server are also available.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a little bit of news quoted from Microsoft\u2019s Corporate VP, Developer Division, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/somasegar\/archive\/2012\/05\/31\/visual-studio-2012-and-net-4-5-release-candidates-available-now.aspx\">S. Somasegar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>These releases ship with \u201cGo Live\u201d licenses, so you can get started today building and deploying production applications using Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5.<\/p>\n<p>For this release candidate milestone, you\u2019ll find substantial improvements since the Developer Preview and Beta releases.&#160; We\u2019ve added features, improved performance, revamped the UI, streamlined setup, made it easy for you to move from Beta to RC, and more.&#160; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I\u2019ve been happy with the Visual Studio 11 Beta.&#160; In fact, I am primarily using it for all of my development work, and haven\u2019t even installed Visual Studio 2010 on my primary development machine.&#160; I\u2019m not sure that I\u2019m complete sold on the monochromatic UI, but I rarely think about it when I\u2019m actually working with the product.&#160; If I find any useful tips or tricks, I\u2019ll plan to post them on this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s release of the Windows 8 \/ Server 2012 downloads isn\u2019t the only news for techie-types that want to live on the bleeding edge.&#160; Microsoft has also released the Release Candidate versions of Visual Studio 2012.&#160; You can find the downloads on MSDN (of course) and from the Visual Studio 2012 (formerly Visual Studio 11) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases-sql-server","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}