Chapter 1. A Quick Tour of Visual Studio 2012

In This Chapter

• The Visual Studio Product Line

• Languages, Frameworks, and Application Templates

• Developing Rich(er) Clients

• Creating Web Clients

• Making the Client Choice

• Coding for the Cloud

• Working with Data

• Write Connected, Service-Oriented Solutions

Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5 introduce many new features to an already full-feature toolset. This latest version is about increasing developer productivity while providing developers with choices and flexibility when building their solutions. If you’ve been developing for a long time, you’ve come to expect that a new release of the IDE comes with advanced programming models, more acronyms, a few fresh project types, ...

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