Microsoft has announced the official launch of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5. In continuation of this, the company also announced Visual Studio Update 1 timing, Visual Studio 2012 Express for Desktop availability, F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web availability and TFS Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012 and other updates.
S. Somasegar, Corporate Vice-President, Developer Division, Microsoft, said, “The release of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 delivers our most comprehensive and streamlined set of tools yet, providing the centrepiece for an integrated development experience targeting the latest and greatest platforms from Microsoft.”
“Working in close concert with Visual Studio 2012, enables developers to easily use their existing skills, and efficiently leverage emerging development trends, to build innovative applications that drive valuable usage scenarios for today’s increasingly mobile workforce,” said Naresh Choudhary, Head - Tools, Infosys.
S Sivaguru, Head- Tools Group, HCL, said, “HCL extends the value of Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 into the wave of new applications that span today’s modern platforms. In our early adoption, we have seen benefits of significantly reducing the time for upgrades of SharePoint sites by exploiting some of the new features of Visual Studio 2012. This used to require a lot of manual efforts to be put in earlier.”
