Visual Studio 2012 RTW

Visual Studio 2012 is now released to the web. Please visit Jason Zander’s Blog for detailed announcement. This page lists what’s new in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio for Web.

We are updating the Visual Studio 2010 publish experience as well to align with the features available in Visual Studio 2012 RTW. The bits are inside Windows Azure SDK for .NET which can be downloaded in https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/.

Also, we are releasing the following at the same time:

• ASP.NET MVC 4 for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2010 SP1
• Microsoft ASP.NET Web API OData Preview Nuget package
• Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Help Page Preview Nuget package
• Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Tracing Preview Nuget package
• Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Client Libraries Preview Nuget package

You can get the details of the Web API release from this post.

Videos about the new features by Scott Hanselman:

• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/aspnet-45-web-forms-model-binding
• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/visual-studio-2012-html-editing-features
• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/visual-studio-2012-css-editor
• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/visual-studio-2012-javascript-editor
• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/visual-studio-2012-page-inspector
• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/aspnet-45-web-forms-strong-typed-data-controls
• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/visual-studio-2012-web-publishing-improvements
• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/aspnet-mvc-4
• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/aspnet-web-api
• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/bundling-and-optimization
• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/signalr-and-web-sockets
• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/async-and-await
• http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/oauth-in-the-default-aspnet-45-templates

Tell Us What You Think

• http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio
• User Voice
• ASP.NET forums

Enjoy!

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Update 8/16/2012: Add the links for WebAPI nuget packages.