This is the commercially released version of Visual Studio 2012 Professional. It uses the .NET framework version 4.5

• Semantic Colorization: Improved syntax coloring, various user-defined or default colors for C++ syntax such as macros, enumerations, typenames, functions etc.
• Reference Highlighting: Selection of a symbol highlights all of the references to that symbol within scope.
• New Solution Explorer: New solution explorer allows for visualization of class and file hierarchies within a solution/project. Searching for calls to functions and uses of classes will be supported.
• Automatic Display of IntelliSense list: IntelliSense will automatically be displayed whilst typing code, as opposed to previous versions where it had to be explicitly invoked through use of certain operators (i.e. the scope operator (::)) or shortcut keys (Ctrl-Space or Ctrl-J).
• Member List Filtering: IntelliSense uses fuzzy logic to determine which functions/variables/types to display in the list.
• Code Snippets: Code snippets are included in IntelliSense to automatically generate relevant code based on the user's parameters, custom code snippets can be created.

A major new feature is support for WinRT and C++/CX (Component Extensions). Support for C++ AMP (GPGPU programming) is also included.

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Supported .NET Framework versions: 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5

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The product was released 2012-09-12.

What works
Nothing

What does not

All

What was not tested
n/a

Additional Comments

Tested with 1.5.29 1.3.0
Testing Ultimate Version
jmabudabi@jmabudabi-pc:~$ wine /mnt/vs_ultimate.exe
//FontConfig write warning
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken QueryInformationToken( ..., TokenElevation, ...) semi-stub
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
//FontConfig write Warning
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken QueryInformationToken( ..., TokenElevation, ...) semi-stub
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:advapi:DecryptFileW (L"C:\\users\\jmabudabi\\Temp\\{d52a6db7-8126-47bb-839c-f4b323aec504}\\", 00000000): stub

	Distribution	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Rating	Submitter
Current	Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	May 09 2013	1.5.29	Yes	No	Garbage	Viktor
Show	Fedora 16 x86_64	Jul 22 2012	1.5.9	No	Not installable	Garbage	Anastasius Focht