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August 2012 - Visual Studio Blog

New Visual Studio 2012 Debugging Features for the Windows 8 App Lifecycle Model

August 23, 2012 Aug 23, 2012 08/23/12
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Windows 8 brings a new app lifecycle model, in which Windows Store apps are automatically managed for the user. These apps always feel alive, even though they never run when they’re off the screen. This provides great benefits for power consumption and battery life. Here are a few related blog posts we recommend for background reading on ...

Visual Studio 2012 released to the web!

August 22, 2012 Aug 22, 2012 08/22/12
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On August 15th, we announced the release of Visual Studio 2012 to the web! Make sure to visit Somasegar’s Blog for the announcement, and if you haven’t downloaded yet, check out Jason Zander’s Blog for 12 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 ...