Year 2012 is here but Microsoft Visual Studio team is launching Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview now. They should just rename it :)
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is an integrated development environment that seamlessly spans the entire life cycle of software creation, including architecture, user interface design, code creation, code insight and analysis, code deployment, testing, and validation.
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