Visual Studio 2012 – Update 2 RTM is officially released , you can check the announcement in Somasegar’s Blog , Also you can download it from here

Right now there is a big buzz on Twitter about this new amazing update 🙂

Feature Summary

Agile Planning

1. Work Item Filtering
   • Team Foundation Server Work Item Tagging
2. Kanban Board
   • Customize columns in the Team Foundation Kanban Board
3. Send Work Items using email
   • Email work items from query
   • Email work items from backlogs

Quality Enablement (Testing)

1. Windows Store
   • Windows Store App UI Responsiveness Analyzer (HTML/JavaScript)
   • Improvements in Windows Store Applications Unit Testing
   • Windows App Certification Kit (latest version)
2. Windows Phone
   • TDD for Windows Phone Unit Tests
3. Coded UI Testing
   • Extended cross browser support in Coded UI Testing
   • Coded user interface testing support for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7
4. Web based Test Case Management
   • Enable adding attachments to test outcomes
   • Enable pausing and resuming test execution
   • Enable adding attachments to test outcomes
   • Enable pausing and resuming test execution
   • Enable editing Test case during Test Execution
   • Inline editing of text of test steps and results in the test execution of the browser based test management 
5. Test Explorer Enhancements
   • Test Explorer group tests by Class
   • Test Explorer test playlists
   • Test Explorer test details improvements for Coded UI Tests
6. SharePoint
   • Microsoft SharePoint 2013 support in Coded UI Testing
   • Advanced SharePoint 2010 Load Testing
7. Unit Testing
   • Fakes now available in Visual Studio Premium
8. Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)
   • The ability to clone test cases in Microsoft Test Manager

Quality Enablement (Debugging)

1. Code Map
   • Code Map Debugger Integration and Responsiveness Improvements
2. IntelliTrace
   • SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint User Profile diagnostics support with IntelliTrace
   • Symbol Loading improvements for IntelliTrace and Profiler

Line of Business (LOB) Application Development

1. LightSwitch
   • LightSwitch HTML Client –  Support for HTML5 and the new SharePoint/0365 Apps Model
2. Blend, SketchFlow & XAML Editors
   • Blend for Visual Studio once again supports WPF, Silverlight and SketchFlow projects
   • Performance & reliability improvements when using the XAML design surfaces in Visual Studio and Blend and XAML editor in Visual Studio

Developer Experience

1. Web Based Version Control
   • Web version control Improvements
   • Web based version control Explore and Compare
2. TFS Build
   • Team Foundation Server 2012 compatibility with 2010 build Servers
3. Team Explorer Enhancements
   • New Team Explorer Connection dialog display multiple servers, TPCs and projects
4. TFS Upgrades & Availability
   • TFS Update 2 Offers Settings Preservation for In-Place Upgrades
   • Servicing in High Availability SQL Environments
5. Visual Studio IDE
   • New Blue Theme for Visual Studio IDE

Web Development

1. ASP.NET & Web Tools 2012.2 (Update 2) is included in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (no changes from stand-alone release)

Fixes

1. Update 2 contains various fixes, for a complete list please see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2797912

For more info, please check this wonderful post by visual studio ALM Team

Happy ALM 🙂