With the advent of the Windows 8 Release Preview, Microsoft has just gone live with the download links for release candidate version of Visual Studio 2012 formally known as “Visual Studio 11”. The release has a lot of changes compared to the beta version that was first released in late February.
For your conveience, we have grabbed direct download links from official website. And you can download Visual Studio 2012 RC in different formats from the links given below:
This is a Product Keys collection post for all versions (including RC and RTM versions, as well universal for all languages and all updates) of Microsoft Visual Studio 5 commercial editions at least: Professional, Premium, Enterprise, Ultimate and Team Foundation Server. Jun 05, 2012 Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 RC also being made available for users to download. The new Visual Studio is a little bit different from VS2012 Beta. Microsoft says that we have added some features to it like performance; the UI is revamped and the setup is streamlined. These features by which we can move the Beta version to RC.
Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate RC
Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate RC is the comprehensive ALM offering for organizations developing and operating highly scalable software applications and services.
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Web installer http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9810263
ISO Image http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=247147
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Visual Studio 2012 Premium RC
Visual Studio 2012 Premium RC offers an integrated ALM solution to bring together stakeholders, users, and software development functions to deliver compelling applications as a unified team.
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Web installer http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9810243
ISO Image http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=247144
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Visual Studio 2012 Professional Iso
Visual Studio 2012 Professional RC
Visual Studio 2012 Professional RC is a unified development experience that enables developers to create multi-tier applications across the web, cloud, and devices.
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Web installer http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9810223
ISO Image http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=247141
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Visual Studio 2012 Test Professional RC
Visual Studio 2012 Test Professional RC is ideal for testers, business analysts, product managers, and other stakeholders who need team collaboration tools, but not a full development IDE.
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Web installer http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9810304
ISO Image http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=247152
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Microsoft Visual Studio Professional Download
Visual Studio 2012 Express RC for Windows 8
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Express RC for Windows 8 provides the core tools that are required to build compelling, innovative Windows Metro style apps. It include a fully featured code editor, a powerful debugger, a focused profiler, and rich language support that you can use to build apps that written in HTML5, JavaScript, C++, C# or Visual Basic. Visual Studio 2012 Express RC for Windows 8 also includes a device simulator that you can use to test Metro style apps on multiple form factors.
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Web installer http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9810150
ISO Image http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9810160
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Join For FreeA few days back, Microsoft had released the Visual Studio 2012 RC (Release Candidate) and .NET Framework 4.5 RC (Release Candidate) which is now available for download from Visual Studio product Website.
Last week has been a Download week with the other releases of Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate build too being available for download.
The Visual Studio 2012 also includes templates to create Metro style Apps for Windows 8 and loads of other new features which can found here
Microsoft is shipping Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 with “Go Live” licenses which means developers can now start using and deploy apps using it.
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