Visual Studio 2012 Update is providing continuous value to customers, adding new capabilities year-round to features in the main product release. These releases will be aligned with the core software development trends in the market, ensuring developers and development teams always have access to the best solution for building modern applications.

This is a community technology preview (CTP) for Visual Studio 2012 Update 2. These cumulative updates to Visual Studio 2012 include a variety of bug fixes and capability improvements. More details can be found here.

Statement of Support:

For Visual Studio: The recommended approach for upgrading Visual Studio on test workstations is installing the latest Visual Studio Update CTP on top of an RTM release or a previous CTP build of that Update. Visual Studio CTPs can be upgraded to a different build.

For Team Foundation Server: Team Foundation Server 2012 with Update 2 CTP 4 is “go-live”. This means that customers can use this build in production environments. This is still a pre-release, so there may be some bugs that will be fixed for the final release. Upgrade from Update 2 CTP 4 to Update 2 RTM is supported. In order to upgrade to future releases, the customer must first upgrade from Update 2 CTP 4 to Update 2 RTM.