On August 15^th, we announced the release of Visual Studio 2012 to the web! Make sure to visitSomasegar’s Blog for the announcement, and if you haven’t downloaded yet, check out Jason Zander’s Blog for12 reasons to upgrade. There was a lot of buzz across the blogs, so here’s a rollup of additional posts you might want to read about the release:

• .NET Framework Blog:Announcing the release of .NET Framework 4.5 RTM – Product and Source Code
• .NET Web Development and Tools Blog:Visual Studio 2012 RTW
• ADO.NET Blog:EF5 Released
• Beth Massi’s Blog:Getting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012
• Jason Zander’s Blog:Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released to the web!
• Scott Hanselman’s Blog:Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 is RELEASED – Here’s 5 minute videos to get you up to speed quick
• Somasegar’s Blog:Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 now available!
• Visual C++ Team Blog:https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog
• Visual Studio ALM + Team Foundation Server Blog:Welcome to Visual Studio 2012 ALM Rangers Readiness “Wave”
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog:Visual Studio 2012 Released to Web!

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MSDN Subscribers can download from theMSDN Subscriber Download Page. For free trial and Express versions, these releases are available on ourVisual Studio product website.

To learn more about Visual Studio 2012, join us on September 12^th for the Visual Studio 2012 Launch event online athttp://www.visualstudiolaunch.com/.

As always, we want to hear your suggestions or feature ideas/improvements so please add your suggestions toUserVoice or vote on other user’s suggestions.

Enjoy!

Cathy Sullivan (Program Manager) and the Visual Studio Team