Introduction

The release of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Team System marked a major revision to the .NET development experience. It brought us code snippets, custom project templates, refactoring, data binding wizards, smart tags, modeling tools, automated testing tools, and project and task management—to name just a few features.

Visual Studio 2010 built on these tools, providing additional core changes and additions to the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE), and furthering Microsoft’s investment in full spectrum application lifecycle management.

And now, Visual Studio 2012 has made the next set of improvements—some radical, some evolutionary—to further the development experience, providing first-class support for ...

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