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Visual Studio 2012: Not your mother's IDE


By Patrick Hynds


 Patrick Hynds
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September 28, 2012 —  (Page 1 of 6)
Visual Studio has been the gold standard for the integrated development environment (IDE) used to develop software for many years. Other development environments such as Eclipse have made great gains over the years as well, but Microsoft has been relentless since 2008 in producing major releases every two years that keep improving developer productivity.

In the final analysis, developer productivity is the bottom line as it has the biggest effect on the bottom line of the companies that employ and hire the developers who use it.

To that end, there are many enhancements that will make users of this latest version of Visual Studio even more productive. But the first obstacle to realizing this promise of increased productivity is making sense of the various editions being offered to ensure you have the right one. It seems as if Microsoft reinvents the editions with every new version, but this time around the changes are minor when it comes to the edition choices for Visual Studio 2012 versus the Visual Studio 2010 editions. This time around, the first change you might notice is that there is a professional edition that does not include MSDN, which takes the place of Visual Studio 2010 Pro with MSDN Essentials edition. There have also been expansions such as the Lab Management features in Visual Studio Premium 2012, while with 2010, these capabilities were only available with Visual Studio Ultimate and Test Professional.

Microsoft has resisted converting the Visual Studio 2012 user interface into one that is ribbon-based, but it has not left it unchanged. The first thing I noticed when I opened the new Visual Studio for the first time is that all of the menus are in all-capital letters. This is certainly a minor thing, but it feels like those menus are screaming at me, thanks in large part to my spending too much time online I suppose. I assume the average developer will have the same impression, as I have heard others make the same observation.


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