As you may have seen from the various announcements, we released Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 today. This update contains a lot of improvements and fixes (especially for XAML scenarios), and you can download it from the following location.
To learn more about the improvements we’ve made, please check out our earlier post. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me by commenting below or posting on our forums.
Regards,
Hari
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