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May 2012 - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now!

May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12
Visual Studio Blog
Today, we're excited to announce that Visual Studio 2012 RC is now available for download on our Visual Studio product website. Since the release of Beta, we’ve been hard at work making final touches, addressing top customer feedback from Beta, and improving performance across the IDE. Take an in-depth look at what's new in the Release ...

Welcome to the Developer Tools Blog Network

May 30, 2012 May 30, 2012 05/30/12
Lisa Feigenbaum
Sometimes it can be hard to keep up with all the top content across our many developer blogs. This makes sense, given that we have thousands of blogs! We want to make it easier for you to find and subscribe to the topics you’re interested in. Today we’re introducing the Developer Tools blog network, which connects the top ...

Visual Studio Dark Theme

May 29, 2012 May 29, 2012 05/29/12
Visual Studio Blog
As we’re closing in on the final designs for Visual Studio 11 I want to thank you again for your feedback. I want to pass along that we are still internalizing your feedback and actively working on the next Visual Studio 11 milestones. The purpose of this post is to follow up on a common request relating to the earlier RC preview post. ...

Visual Studio 11 Performance: Improvements in Typing and Editing Responsiveness

May 25, 2012 May 25, 2012 05/25/12
Visual Studio Blog
After the beta release, we published several posts on the performance improvements in Visual Studio 11. Since the beta release, we have made a number of additional enhancements, continuing our quest to improve the performance of Visual Studio. The performance work done between beta and the upcoming RC was substantial and covered many aspects ...

Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in RC

May 8, 2012 May 8, 2012 05/8/12
Visual Studio Blog
With the release of Visual Studio 11 Beta back in February of this year, we introduced changes to the user experience based on two core design principles, the first being to give you more space for your content and the second being to draw more focus to that content. Since the debut of these changes there’s been significant community ...