Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate (RC) – formerly known as Visual Studio 11 – is now available for download! Jason Zander’s blog has a lot of great information on all the exciting changes we have made, including improvements to setup.

I encourage you to download and give VS2012 RC a try.

Should you find any issues with setup, please be sure to to download and run our log collection utility. You can then find help through the following channels for setup:

• Discuss on our Visual Studio Setup forum and include a link to your logs (free hosting available on SkyDrive.com)
• File a bug on Microsoft Connect with your logs attached

For general feedback or to file bugs for Visual Studio itself, look to the bottom of Jason’s blog post for a wealth of resources.

Update: Also be sure to check out the ReadMe for VS 2012 RC.