Release
Yesterday’s release of Visual Studio 2012 and Blend for Visual Studio
2012 marks the beginning of a new era. In some ways, VS2012 and Blend
are incremental releases, adding even better support for building
enterprise and consumer apps and services for the desktop and the web.
However, in one very important way, the release of VS2012 and Blend,
together with the release of Windows 8 earlier this month, signals a
whole new focus for the platform - that of touch-centric tablets - and
with it, a whole new way to package and distribute apps for the Windows
operating system - the Windows Store. If Windows 8 sells even
half of...