Updated: July 12, 2020 (April 15, 2013)

Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Available

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Visual Studio (VS) 2012 Update 2 was released in Apr. 2013, delivering features and fixes to Microsoft’s integrated development environment (IDE). Improvements in Update 2 (which is a cumulative release that includes Update 1) include the following:

Tags that help organize work items in product backlogs when using the Scrum Agile development methodology
Access to testing tools in Team Web Access, which can help testers when the Test Manager desktop client can’t be accessed
Several improvements to unit testing and new unit testing support for Windows Phone 8
An enhanced user interface for connecting to Team Foundation Server and new support for connecting to the Git open source distributed version control system
A profiling tool that can help developers make JavaScript-based Windows Store applications more responsive
The SketchFlow user interface mock-up tool (previously only available separately as part of Expression Blend) and support for XAML-based development using

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