Anybody using VS2012 yet?

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Although I'm passing on Windows 8, I've decided to install VS2012. I'm still getting used to the colour scheme, but there are a couple of nice improvements. Performance, search boxes and a couple of irritating things fixed from the previous VS.

To be honest though, I was already sold at "Performance Improvements" :)
 
I've also been using VS2010 until about an hour ago. It is 100% compatible it seems... No project upgrading or anything. It just works first time.
I'm not going to upgrade my projects to .NET 4.5 though. My clients will kill me if I push another .NET Framework installation on them now. .NET 4 still works 100%.
 
At work we use several project types that don't have VS2012 support (K2), and at home I do XNA coding in my spare time (Which can be migrated to 2012, but not naturally - Moving over to Unity though for web stuff, so this really isn't an issue...)
 
Been using VWD 2012. Microsoft do lots of things badly, but they are brilliant at making IDEs.
 
Been using 2012 since beta all of our new products we're developing with 2012 4.5
 
Yup, been using it since beta too making W8 apps.
I really like it :D
 
At first I hated it, then I added that registry entry to override the UPPERCASE file menu text (what a dumb twat idea by MS) and it made it 100x better :p

Performance is a big plus. Colour scheme takes some getting use to.

Still seeing some small annoying things here and there, but overall I am very happy :)
 
Crap... ran into a snag. One of the 3rd party components I'm using not working anymore. :(
 
Hamster said:
At first I hated it, then I added that registry entry to override the UPPERCASE file menu text (what a dumb twat idea by MS) and it made it 100x better :p
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I think it was uppercase for a reason, to top-align that menu. Otherwise it just floats about.
 
Wovenhand said:
I think it was uppercase for a reason, to top-align that menu. Otherwise it just floats about.
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MS says it is to fit in with their new "Design Philosophy". No, it looks crap... I changed it.

Also installed a few extensions to make my life easier:
* CodeMaid
* ProgressiveScroll
* Color Theme Editor - I selected blue and it looks much prettier now. more like VS2010. Stuff is not just floating around everywhere (but the default Light theme is not that bad)
 
Hamster said:
MS says it is to fit in with their new "Design Philosophy". No, it looks crap... I changed it.

Also installed a few extensions to make my life easier:
* CodeMaid
* ProgressiveScroll
* Color Theme Editor - I selected blue and it looks much prettier now. more like VS2010. Stuff is not just floating around everywhere (but the default Light theme is not that bad)
Click to expand...

Ah thanks for this. Definitely getting the Color Theme editor. What does the other two do?
 
I hate the new bright white theme in vs2012 and office 2013, but changing to the dark theme makes the text editor difficult to read.
Will check out that color theme add-on.
 
ViperGTI said:
Ah thanks for this. Definitely getting the Color Theme editor. What does the other two do?
Click to expand...

Progressive Scroll - replaces your scroll bar with that "source overview" thingy. Much easier to jump around in you source file.
Code maid - adds things like collapse all, code cleanup etc.
 
I'm using VS2012 on some XSLT projects, but ey I've never liked Microsoft Products (including Windows) :)
 
Been running VS2012 since Beta and the day it RTMed... best version of VS released to date.

So much support for Javascript, intellisense gotten way better, EF improvements, SQL improvements... amazing, love the fact that MS is moving to Nuget for bi-weekly updates fixes, patches etc...

Big Improvement overall
 
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