Final Build for VS 2012 - Availability and Launch Dates Ahead
The final build of Visual Studio 2012 is now complete! The engineering team is finished and is now preparing the build for our numerous distribution channels.
I’d also like to congratulate the Windows 8 team for completing their important release to manufacturing today. You can read more from the Windows team on the Building Windows 8 blog.
I’m looking forward to our next milestone when we make Visual Studio 2012 available for everyone to download from MSDN and elsewhere on August 15th. Watch my blog for the official release information.
Finally, I’d like to invite you to join Soma and me on September 12th as we officially launch Visual Studio 2012 via a live online event. For more information, please visit https://www.visualstudiolaunch.com/. I hope you will tune in to learn more about all the new capabilities in VS 2012.
Exciting times ahead!
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Comments
Anonymous
August 01, 2012
Excellent news. After all VS2012 has been through, I'm surprised the UI bosses didn't require you to make the announcement in ALL CAPS and all gray text. <grin>Anonymous
August 01, 2012
.NET 4.5 looks great. But Developers need to be aware of what the consequences are of installing Visual Studio 2012 (as it requires .NET 4.5.) If you still plan to develop for .NET 4.0 then there are serious drawbacks that Microsoft is not advertising. .NET 4.5 assumes that the developer is happy to have .NET 4.0 bugs fixed when developing "Targeting .NET 4.0" (with .NET 4.5 installed). This means that developers will not see .NET 4.0 bugs once they have .NET 4.5 installed. But once you run on a machine that does not (or cannot) have .NET 4.5 installed on it, those bugs will be present again. (Basically they are hidden while you debug but show up once you release.) This happens no matter if you are "targeting" .NET 4.0, or even developing using Visual Studio 2010. Once .NET 4.5 is installed the bugs are hidden from your debugger. However, if you don’t have any .NET 4.0 users, then .NET 4.5 is a safe upgrade. See here for more info: social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../c05a8c02-de67-47a9-b4ed-fd8b622a7e4aAnonymous
August 01, 2012
What's with the 15 day delay?Anonymous
August 01, 2012
Congrats to all the VS Team. Great Job!Anonymous
August 01, 2012
Truly awesome news, I love VS2012, well done to all the team :)Anonymous
August 01, 2012
The ALL CAPS needs more BOLD IMHO...Anonymous
August 01, 2012
I know they aren't in the same space.. but still.. I'd have the live online event at a different date than the [rumored] iPhone 5 announcement event.. just saying.Anonymous
August 01, 2012
Great work congratulations - looking forward to launchAnonymous
August 01, 2012
Is it still possible to program in DirectX with VS 2012 in Windows 8? I have heard some rumours that the initial plan was not to allow DirectX, but that MS has second thoughts now... What is the current situation about it?Anonymous
August 01, 2012
Is pricing information available yet? -- including for upgrades from VS2010 professional?Anonymous
August 02, 2012
Does this include TFS 2012?Anonymous
August 02, 2012
So Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8 released to MSDN on the same day? My first thought is how slow MSDN could be. Any chance of using bittorrent to handle the load?Anonymous
August 03, 2012
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August 03, 2012
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August 05, 2012
Any news when it will land on DreamSpark?Anonymous
August 06, 2012
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August 07, 2012
Congratulations to all devs, testers and pm for this impressive delivery. I have a question regarding the MSDN Subscription download. Our company gives to each of us the MSDN Subscription and we are thinking if is it possible to download just once and then install it on each employee machine perhaps inserting our own key. Is this possible/legal for both VS2012 and Win8 or each of us needs to do his own donwload?Anonymous
August 07, 2012
@xpclient -- our intent is to have bits for all of the Spark programs at the same time as MSDN availability. @al -- The gory details on licensing can be found here: www.microsoft.com/.../licensing. We license per user and each licensed user (aka MSDN subscriber) can install and use the software on any number of machines for dev/test. Product keys are provisioned per user but they are simply a way of activating the software or ensuring it’s genuine, the keys themselves are not licenses to use the software.Anonymous
August 07, 2012
VSLive Redmond is going on the week of Aug 6 - Aug 9. Any chance that those attending can expect a chance to get this prior to the end of the week?Anonymous
August 07, 2012
@jason zander please give one approach about MS XNA 5. we are awaiting. Direct X Or XNA ? Whether that is the question !Anonymous
August 09, 2012
Great! When will the Visual Studio 2012 SDK be released? Thanks.Anonymous
August 09, 2012
@Weidong; The Visual Studio 2012 SDK will release together with Visual Studio 2012. Both will be available for download on MSDN and then the Microsoft Download Center (www.microsoft.com/download).Anonymous
August 09, 2012
Will TFS 2012 finally have the team project rename feature?Anonymous
August 11, 2012
FYI as of now I got yellow screen of death from www.visualstudiolaunch.comAnonymous
August 12, 2012
@NDC - We're working to resolve an intermittent issue. Please try again. www.visualstudiolaunch.comAnonymous
August 14, 2012
I'm waiting for the day.... today is Aug 15th. Best hoping to get VS 2012 from MSDNAnonymous
August 14, 2012
August 15th, Visual Studio 2012 is not available as of yet for msdn or technet. Any idea when it will be ready for download ?Anonymous
August 15, 2012
Excellent news, but today is the 15th and I do not see it available - what time is it going up? It's 10:30am central time now.Anonymous
August 15, 2012
Ok folks I just had a brain fart - it's 10:00am PACIFIC, NOT CENTRAL! :) An hour and ten minutes to go!!! I am excited.Anonymous
August 15, 2012
It is in MSDN now, downloading fast.Anonymous
August 15, 2012
Any word when this will be coming to the dreamspark site?Anonymous
August 15, 2012
@ Charles - Jason just announced RTW this morning! blogs.msdn.com/.../visual-studio-2012-and-net-framework-4-5-released-to-the-web.aspx Cheers, Lisa Feigenbaum Visual Studio Community Program ManagerAnonymous
August 15, 2012
Hello - Thank you for reaching out to us regarding DreamSpark's availability of Visual Studio 2012. This is an incredibly exciting release for us. If you are a student and your school or institution has a DreamSpark Subscription, the Program Administrator for your DreamSpark Subscription will have access to Visual Studio 2012 today through MSDN Subscriber Downloads (msdn.microsoft.com/.../downloads). For students with accounts on DreamSpark.com, or with student accounts in their school or institution's ELMS WebStore we are working as quickly as possible to make this available and have a release target of August 24th. Thank you! Neil Carter DreamSpark Global Program ManagerAnonymous
August 15, 2012
Good News.Anonymous
August 16, 2012
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August 17, 2012
I'm looking at all the positive feedback without seeing any real arguments. Anyways, I hate what you did to Visual Studio 2012 and I will not strain my eyes just to make your operating system worth buying. And I am sure lots of either people thing alike.