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As new information technology plays an integral part in everyday life, customers are in charge. They expect rich interfaces and intuitive interaction. Microsoft® Visual Studio® Professional 2012 contains deep interoperability with business and consumer platforms that allows you to delight your users. You can consolidate many development tasks into one tool so you can enhance existing applications or build new, modern ones. Plus, a new simplifi ed, clean, and fast development environment lets you focus on creating value and accomplish tasks quicker. With Visual Studio Professional 2012 you’ll reduce risk, solve problems faster, and continuously deliver value that exceeds your customers’ expectations.

Microsoft Visual Studio

Professional 2012The right choice for

building multi-tier applications for the web,

cloud, and devices.

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DEVELOP FOR MULTIPLE PLATFORMSDevelop applications for Windows®, the cloud, phones, Microsoft® Offi ce, and Microsoft® SharePoint® with the same development environment. Plus, you can automatically adapt web applications to target mobile devices with enhanced ASP.NET support for mobile browsers.

CREATE MODERN WEB APPLICATIONSDevelop interactive web applications more easily and effi ciently with new tools for JavaScript and jQuery. You can identify problems faster and make changes on-the-fl y while interacting with your application with the new Page Inspector capability. You can also build data-driven web applications with new ASP.NET model binding, client-side validation, and HTML5 forms.

POWERFUL, DESIGN-CENTRIC TOOLSThe updated Microsoft® Blend® for Visual Studio includes new, design-centric tools for XAML and HTML5 applications. In addition, you can experience the application while you build it with the new interactive mode, signifi cantly reducing the time it takes to create highly interactive applications.

DEVELOP FAST AND FLUID EXPERIENCESBuild responsive user interfaces and scalable services using additions within Microsoft® Visual C#®, Visual Basic® .NET, and Visual C++® for asynchronous programming that greatly simplify traditional thread-based code.

GO TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH HTML5Take standard development to the next level with new editors that make HTML5 and CSS3 development more productive and enrich traditional HTML development.

DEVELOP WITH THE BEST BUSINESS PLATFORMS FOR CUSTOMERSExtend current applications to the cloud using Windows AzureTM—building and deploying via project templates, a seamless debugging experience, and easy publishing.

USE THE TOOLS YOUR USERS KNOWThe capabilities for Microsoft Offi ce and Microsoft SharePoint development make it perfect for creating custom solutions that integrate with the productivity tools your users already know.

IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY WITH AN INTEGRATED SOLUTIONUse a single tool for all of your development tasks including coding, debugging, and deploying to improve productivity and simplify the development process. Maintain and enhance legacy applications through compatibility with Visual Studio 2010, while you build for the latest platforms.

SPEED AND SIMPLIFY EFFORTS WITH A NEW IDEPerform everyday tasks faster with the new user interface that makes it easier for you to navigate through the code and provides quicker access to common tasks.

QUICKLY CREATE QUALITY DESKTOP AND WEB BUSINESS APPLICATIONS Build and deploy professional-quality desktop and web applications and services with Microsoft® LightSwitch for Visual Studio, a fl exible, rapid application-development tool.

CENTRALIZE YOUR TEAM COLLABORATIONWith Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Professional 2012, you and your team can use a centralized source code, work item, and bug-tracking repository in the context of your tasks. This will help to bring your teams together to deliver value that exceeds your customers’ expectations.

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