Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2012
September 12, 2012 —
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“We’re working closely with the Office 365 and SharePoint teams to ensure the [developer] tools will enable you to target their latest and greatest platform technologies,” Somasegar said ahead of the launch.
Somasegar also announced an expansion of the Express family of development tools, saying that Visual Studio Express for Windows Desktop is now available for download. This gives developers Express tools for building Windows Desktop applications in C++, C# and VB.NET. Functional programming also gets a boost with tools for F# development in Visual Studio Web Express, he said. This will allow developers to “incorporate F# and functional programming into ASP.NET, or any cloud programming or Azure programming that you want to do,” he explained.
Today’s release also included Team Foundation Server Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012, which the company said offers advanced backup, Windows Explorer and PowerShell extensions, as well as a process template editor, available today. There is also new support for Windows Embedded Compact development, which will be available with the next release of Windows Embedded Compact, expected early next year.
Somasegar also pointed out that there are currently more than 3,400 items in the Visual Studio Gallery, a collection of tools and extensions that third-party providers are building on top of Visual Studio. “We’ve got about 72 of our partners with over 100 new tools and extensions and capabilities that will ship alongside Visual Studio 2012 today, taking advantage of the latest platform features,” he noted.
One of those partners, Columbia Sportswear, appeared at the Redmond launch event. Brian Summers, senior manager of global application development at Columbia Sportswear, said before the launch that the combination of Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 allows his entire development team to work in one collaborative environment. “We have a lot of developers who know both .NET and Java, and we like to move them back and forth,” he said. “So the Java guys use the Eclipse plug-in in TFS, and there’s no ramp-up time for developers.”
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