Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/31/visual-studio-2012-rc-available-now.aspx

by lt • 14 years ago

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crisnoble2• 14 years ago

I clicked around for quite some time and never found anything resembling screenshot.

Do they really require me to download and install just to see how the app looks?

Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe I am naive for wanting a screenshot. Either way I probably will never find out what it looks like...

eCa• 14 years ago

A click away is this comparison with the beta:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/08/visu...

crisnoble2• 14 years ago

I will eat my words.

Found this too: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/29/visu...

I actually quite like the darkness.

apike• 14 years ago

I find it strange that they've moved to all-caps for menu titles (FILE, EDIT, VIEW...), especially considering Microsoft's recent uses of good typography.

All-caps is a tradeoff where you take away the identifiable shape of a word to make it draw more attention. You could argue that menu titles would be the absolute worst place to use all-caps.

jaredsohn• 14 years ago

eCa beat me to posting this.

Also, here are screenshots of the dark theme: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/29/visu...

cowkingdeluxe• 14 years ago

Interesting, those colors are pretty similar to my custom VS2010 theme: http://i.imgur.com/bLOxQ.png

Although in VS2010 as far as I know you can't change the colors of the explorer menus and such, but it appears in those new screenshots that you can in VS2012.

mark-r2• 14 years ago

Have they backpedaled at all on their decision to not build executables for XP? I couldn't find any mention on the Jason Zander blog, so I assume not.

josephcooney• 14 years ago

AFAIK this restriction only existed in the 'express' versions of Visual Studio 2012.

bgrainger3• 14 years ago

This OP is referring to this issue: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/...

The C++ Runtime Library doesn't support XP, so C++ programs compiled with Visual Studio 2012 can't run on Windows XP. (It is possible to work around this by statically linking and overriding some CRT functions, as detailed here: http://tedwvc.wordpress.com/)

You can keep using the Visual Studio 2010 C++ compiler (and target XP), but then you can't use any of the new C++11 features supported in VS2012.

.NET Framework 4.5 RC also doesn't support XP (see "System requirements" at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2990...), so C#/VB.NET programs targeting .NET 4.5 can't be run on XP either.

atesti• 14 years ago

Why is it so hard to keep some of the "theming" technology in the product and give us a checkbox to renable the old, usable and beautiful design?

I think I'll pass on this version. Heck, even VS2008 has everything I need right now.

mark-r2• 14 years ago

You'll miss out on some C++11 features. That might be a good thing though, we've already run into a vector bug in VS2010 because of it.

eps• 14 years ago

Is it still incapable of assembling XP-compatible binaries?

andyjohnson0• 14 years ago

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4052230

GlennS• 14 years ago

And all I want to know is: will this version have input lag?

skeletonjelly• 14 years ago

Can you elaborate?

TeHCrAzY• 14 years ago

Editing html in vs2012 beta(?) was quite laggy, with > 4 second delays between keypress and screen update.

FixThisPOSSite• 14 years ago

Have they fixed any of these problems?

http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/05/visual-studio-is-it-g...

law• 14 years ago

For anyone who's interested, here's a list of C++11 features built into VC10 and VC11: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh567368(v=vs.110).a...

Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now

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