If you’ve been following the progress of Visual Studio 2012 closely chances are you’ve already downloaded the recently released Release Candidate. If not, then I’ve provided a handy list of links below to get you started. I’ve also included some handy reference and guidance links as well.
Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate
- Visual Studio 2012 RC downloads home page
- Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 RC
- Visual Studio Premium 2012 RC
- Visual Studio Professional 2012 RC
- Visual Studio Test Professional 2012 RC
- Visual Studio Express 2012 RC for Web
- Visual Studio Express 2012 RC for Windows 8
- IntelliTrace Collector for Visual Studio 2012 RC
- Agents for Visual Studio 2012 RC
- Feedback Client for TFS RC
- Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2012 RC
- Visual Studio 2012 RC Shell
- Visual Studio 2012 RC SDK
- Visual Studio 2012 RC Language Pack
.NET Framework
Team Foundation Server 2012
- Team Foundation Server 2012 RC
- Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Express 2012 RC
- Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2012 RC
- Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2012 RC Language Pack
- Team Explorer Everywhere for TFS RC
Team Foundation Service
This is not a download but I’m including it anyway since it’s another offering in the works by Microsoft related to TFS. If you are not familiar with the Team Foundation Service it is essentially “TFS in the Cloud” (in simplistic terms – you can read more about it here). To sign up for a free preview account, visit the TFS Preview site.
Support
Getting Help - To help with any questions you might have, please refer to the following:
- MSDN Forums - get answers to your questions from the community
Providing Feedback - To provide feedback (bugs, suggestions, etc.) for any of the Visual Studio 2012 RC products, utilize the corresponding Microsoft Connect site:
Reference & Guidance
- Visual Studio 2012 RC Documentation - includes walkthroughs, samples, training kits, etc.
- Visual Studio 2012 ALM Rangers Guidance – includes a large variety of guidance developed by the Visual Studio ALM Rangers. The following diagram depicts the type of guidance being provided:
