Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Released

The world's leading software company, Microsoft, has released the second update in one of their most popular product, the Visual Studio 2012. After just four months since the release of the previous update, the company release it's Visual Studio Update 2, as part of the their pledge to ship updates for Visual Studio in "a regular cadence." The VS Update 2 is mainly for bug fixes and performance improvements, though there are some features included this time. The company is currently having a regular update cycle. The last update for Visual Studio 2012 was released on November 2012, known as Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (VS2012.1). According to Soma Somasegar, the corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, the main features of the Visual Studio 2 Updates were the following Five Areas of Investment: *** Agile Planning: Refers to improvements in Team Foundation Server (TFS) which has been augmented with an additional variety of features to help make it even easier for agile teams to do their planning, particularly on adapting to a team's preferences and styles. *** Quality Enablement: Enabling quality to be maintained and improved throughout the entire development cycles. *** Windows Store development: VS2012.2 includes additional new features for Windows Store development. *** Line-of-business development: Beyond improved support for building Windows Store apps, the updates also brings with it a wealth of new and improved capabilities for developing and modernizing line-of-business (LOB) apps. *** Development experience: The VS2012.2 provide developers a streamlined experience when using the IDE. The Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 also adds more tools for software testing so you can now carry out manual ASP.NET testing and cross-browser testing. You can also profile unit tests and see the results across both the unit tests and the code under test in a single report. Unit testing support for Windows Phone 8 apps has also been added. Other improvements in the update, which can be dowloaded for free, include a new profiling tool for JavaScript apps that you can use to work out why your UI is unresponsive; and the inclusion of the latest version of the Windows App Certification Kit. For more information regarding the Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 just visit the official Somesagar's Blog at MSDN. You can also download the VS2012.2 Updates here.