{"id":1163,"date":"2012-05-31T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2012\/05\/31\/visual-studio-2012-rc-available-now\/"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:13:46","slug":"visual-studio-2012-rc-available-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/visual-studio-2012-rc-available-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re excited to announce that Visual Studio 2012 RC\u00a0is now available for download on our <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=240162\">Visual Studio product website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the release of Beta, we\u2019ve 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&#8217;s new in the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 RC and .NET Framework 4.5 on <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/archive\/blogs\/jasonz\/\">Jason Zander\u2019s blog<\/a>. We also encourage you to check out the new <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/archive\/blogs\/windowsappdev\/\">Windows 8 App Developer Blog<\/a> to learn more about how to build great Metro style apps for Windows 8.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, we gave you a sneak peak at the <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/visual-studio-11-user-interface-updates-coming-in-rc\/\">user interface updates coming in RC<\/a> and even gave you a behind the scenes look at <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/visual-studio-dark-theme\/\">what\u2019s coming in RTM for the dark theme<\/a>. Keep an eye out for upcoming posts here on the Visual Studio blog as we have a great line up planned.<\/p>\n<p>If you encounter a bug or an issue, please report it through the <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\">Visual Studio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/lightswitch\">LightSwitch<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/expression\">Blend<\/a> Connect sites. We also want to hear your suggestions or feature ideas\/improvements so please add your suggestions to <a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudio.uservoice.com\/forums\/121579-visual-studio\/category\/35066-ide\">UserVoice<\/a> or vote on other user\u2019s suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>The Visual Studio Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re excited to announce that Visual Studio 2012 RC\u00a0is now available for download on our Visual Studio product website. 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