Visual Studio continues to set the standard for integrated development environments. Visual Studio 2012 with the .NET framework 4.5 brings support for Windows 8 and Metro style apps, Parallel computing, HTML5 and JavaScript support, Application Lifecycle Management as well as a faster IDE and improvements in visualizing and navigating your code.
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