{"id":5850,"date":"2012-06-01T00:09:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T23:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2012-06-01T00:09:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T23:09:52","slug":"new-windows-8-new-visual-studio-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5850-new-windows-8-new-visual-studio-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"New Windows 8, new Visual Studio 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012 (now the official name), which you can download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/11\/en-us\/downloads#vs\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, to coincide with the release of Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Preview. <\/p>\n<p>Visual Studio also has a new logo, as you can see from the setup window below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"526\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s Jason Zander has posted about the new release <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/jasonz\/archive\/2012\/05\/31\/announcing-the-release-candidate-rc-of-visual-studio-2012-and-net-framework-4-5.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Some of the main areas of difference between the RC and the Beta are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better performance <\/li>\n<li>User interface tweaks including the return of a little more colour to the product <\/li>\n<li>Solution Explorer filtering <\/li>\n<li>New Metro style app templates <\/li>\n<li>Improved XAML and Blend designers <\/li>\n<li>Updated ASP.NET 4.5 web forms to support the <strong>await<\/strong> keyword <\/li>\n<li>Tweaks to LightSwitch, Team Foundation Server, Architectural Tools <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is also a more detailed post by Scott Hanselman on what\u2019s new in web development <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/VisualStudio2012RCIsReleasedTheBigWebRollup.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012 (now the official name), which you can download here, to coincide with the release of Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Preview. Visual Studio also has a new logo, as you can see from the setup window below. Microsoft\u2019s Jason Zander has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5850-new-windows-8-new-visual-studio-2012.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Windows 8, new Visual Studio 2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,55,67,80,94],"tags":[104,586,958,996],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-microsoft","category-professional","category-software-development","category-visual-studio","tag-net","tag-microsoft","tag-visual-studio-2012","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}