A shared design surface between Blend for Visual Studio 2012 and the standard IDE for consistent UI rendering. Installation & Usage Notes
Projects and key IDE components load asynchronously, allowing you to start coding before the entire solution is fully loaded. visual-studio-2012-ultimate-iso
First-class tools for building "Windows Store" apps and integrating with the WinRT platform. A shared design surface between Blend for Visual
As the "Ultimate" edition, it focused on the entire application lifecycle management (ALM) process: As the "Ultimate" edition, it focused on the
Advanced code clone detection to find redundant code and "Code Metrics" to measure maintainability. General 2012 Improvements (All Editions)
Includes IntelliTrace for "historical debugging" (recording the execution history to find bugs faster), as well as Continuous Stress-Testing and Lab Management.
Tools for creating Layer Diagrams, UML diagrams (Class, Sequence, Use Case), and Architecture Explorer to visualize complex codebases.