Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio 2012 — Over the past few years, building modern applications has become more difficult due to the increased use of IT. Users have changing expectations of applications. They expect apps to be simple and work on multiple devices. Microsoft’s latest release of its flagship development product, Visual Studio 2012, meets the need to build a wide variety of applications and includes more agile development methods. Built-in testing tools help create high-quality applications and bridge the gap between IT and developers. Team development capabilities make Visual Studio 2012 an integrated solution for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
That said, there’s no doubt that the biggest draw of Visual Studio 2012 is the ability to build applications for Windows 8. In the Visual Studio 2012 launch keynote, Soma Somasegar, vice president of Microsoft’s developer division, said that Visual Studio 2012 has downloads of 600,000. Windows 8 improvements are certainly a big part of the new Visual Studio 2012. it’s liberating — but it doesn’t stop there. Visual Studio 2012 is a major release with more features than I can cover in one article. One of the most obvious changes is that there are completely new versions of Visual Studio. For more information about the different editions of Visual Studio 2012, see the sidebars “Visual Studio 2012” and “Visual Studio Express 2012 Editions”. Now let’s dive into some of the big new features in Visual Studio 2012.
