Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2012

The Redmond company has detailed the main new features of Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, an environment that promises to redefine modern application development, and .NET Framework 4.5, which includes performance improvements and simplifies asynchronous and parallel programming. Improving application development and adapting these processes to the new demands required by the market. Those are the two objectives that Microsoft pursues with the launch of the new versions of Visual Studio and .NET Framework. Visual Studio 2012 provides a rich development environment for creating smart applications, with high availability and accessible from anywhere. All of this, Microsoft reported, taking into account that applications must be user-oriented, with a significant presence of the social world and with the integration of information into customer tasks as an essential factor. Among the main capabilities of Visual Studio are product portfolio management, project planning, team capacity management and forecasting, traceability through integration with collaborative tools and real-time visibility of delivery status and risks. Also the integration of the development evaluator to reduce cycle times in the detection and resolution of errors; and integration of development operations (DevOps) to achieve greater speed in application development and in mean time to repair. Likewise, the Redmond company has also announced the schedule for the Visual Studio update, as well as the availability of Visual Studio 2012 Express for Desktop, F # Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web and TFS Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012 among other new features.