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Introduction

Microsoft released Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Visual Studio 2012.1) on November 26, 2012. This article lists the new features and fixed issues in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1.

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How to obtain Visual Studio 2012 Update 1

You can download and install this release of the Visual Studio update from the Microsoft Download Center. The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Download the latest Visual Studio Update package now. For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to obtain Microsoft support files from online services Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.

To obtain other Visual Studio 2012 updates, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

2707250 Overview of Visual Studio 2012 Updates

Restart requirement

You do not have to restart your computer after you install this package.

About this update

Supported languages

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 provides updates for the following versions:

  • Chinese (Simplified)

  • Chinese (Traditional)

  • Czech

  • English

  • French

  • German

  • Italian

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Russian

  • Polish

  • Portuguese (Brazil)

  • Spanish

  • Turkish

Supported operating systems

For more information about the supported operating systems, go to the following Microsoft website:

Platform compatibility and system requirements for Visual Studio 2012

Supported architectures

  • 32-bit (x86)

  • 64-bit (x64) (WOW64)

Hardware requirements

  • 1.6 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor

  • 1 gigabyte GB of RAM (1.5 GB if running in a virtual machine)

  • 1 GB of available hard-disk space

  • 5,400 RPM hard disk drive

  • DirectX 9-capable video card that is running at 1024 × 768 or a higher resolution

Software requirements

You must have one of the supported Visual Studio 2012 programs that are listed in the "Applies to" section installed to apply this update.

Support for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1

Formal support of Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is available through the Microsoft Support website.

Informal community support for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is available through the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) forums.

New features and fixed issues in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1

New features

Microsoft SharePoint development

To improve quality, scalability and agility, additional application life cycle management (ALM) capabilities are added to SharePoint development, such as load testing and coded UI testing support.

Windows development
Agile teams

You can use Web Access for your Agile plan easily, and new Kanban support is available alongside existing Scrum support.

New test features in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)
New features in Team Foundation Server
Other improvements

List of issues that are fixed

Entity Framework Tools
  • Entity Framework designer may overwrite facets of C-Space properties based on facets of S-Space properties.

  • Build the solution fails after you add an empty ADO.NET Entity Data Model.

  • The .tt files stop generating after you nest an .edmx file under the project folder.

ASP.NET Editor
  • HTML tag is not closed when you type a starting <script> tag in Visual Studio 2012.

  • IntelliSense gives a warning when you mix user controls and controls in a same tagPrefix node.

  • CSS code examples cannot work in .less files.

  • Visual Studio 2012 cannot insert a closing tag in HTML files automatically.

Web Tools
  • Web Platform and Tools (WPT) packages are affected by a time stamp signing issue.

  • Dirty flag is displayed after you save a file in Visual Studio designer.

  • Too much memory is used after you add a new entity model that is generated from a database.

  • A local Internet Information Services (IIS) Express instance is displayed when you browse from a web page that is in a cloud service project.

  • "Application/JavaScript" content of JavaScript files is not registered to Visual Studio 2012.

  • Right-to-Left is not supported in JavaScript Windows Store app templates.

  • Visual Studio 2012 does not support the WinJS Software Development Kit (SDK).

  • Visual Studio 2012 crashes when you save a read-only manifest and then select Cancel to dismiss the dialog box.

Web Publish
  • You cannot install the Web Deploy component when you set up Visual Studio 2012.

  • Web Tools Extensions (WTE) website publish operation does an unnecessary precompilation.

Build Automation in TFS
  • A Build Scheduling job fails two times in TFS.

  • "TF50620: The Team Foundation identity scope A5BD927E-17AE-41F9-B8F3-34BE44653408 does not exist" error, and you cannot upgrade to Visual Studio 2012.1.

  • Message queue settings are lost.

  • You cannot scroll in web browsers for the summary and log views of build files in Team System Web Access (TSWA).

Cloud Intelligence and Admin in TFS
  • Visual SourceSafe (VSS) installer compliance issues.

  • Visual Studio 2012.1 milestone information in ReleaseManifest.xml.

  • "Object doesn't support this property or method" error when you access the Team Profile page.

Collaboration in TFS
  • PowerPoint Storyboarding stops working when you uninstall Visual Studio 2012.1.

Services Framework in TFS
  • "An error occurred while executing the following script: upd_IdentitySnapshotToDev11M36.sql. Failed batch starts on the line 242. Statement line: 2." error when you attach a collection to a Visual Studio 2012.1 server.

  • You cannot upgrade to Visual Studio 2012 if the database collation name contains "90" and this instance is hosted on Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

  • Rebranded URLs (for example tfs.visualstudio.com) are not supported in the Visual Studio 2012 client.

  • "Exception of type 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.HostShutdownException' was thrown" error when you try to delete a project of an offline collection.

  • LocalScopeId value is not changed in tbl_GroupScope when you change the Server ID.

  • You cannot detach and reattach a cloned collection database instance, and it fails with an index violation.

  • Decreased performance when you use the complex identity or group membership topography.

Version Control in TFS
  • Query plan in the prc_CheckIn process causes large memory estimates.

  • "Cannot insert NULL value (QU1)" exception in the TFS 2012 service, and the VC++ UpdateLocalVersion command fails.

.NET Runtime
  • "Code Analysis errors of the same type - CA2149 Transparent code must not reference security critical items" error when you create a new application by using the default "Windows Phone XAML and Direct3D" project template.

F#
  • The sort algorithm of the FSharp.Core.dll assembly may produce incorrect results, and you cannot deploy the applications that contains F# code to Windows Store.

ClickOnce
  • "Not a valid Win32 application" error when you try to use ClickOnce to deploy a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application to Windows XP.

C++ Compiler
  • Incorrect code is generated for bit field swap on the ARM compiler.

  • Debug Interface Access (DIA) ARM stack unwinder displays empty stack when the CPU contains an invalid address.

  • WinCE default entry point is _stdcall instead of _cdecl.

  • The image base symbol name of WinCE is ImageBase instead of CeImageBase.

  • Single VC++ file takes a long time to compile.

  • No sign targets are called for the vcredist_x86, vcredist_x64, or vcredist_arm files.

Installation
  • "Microsoft XP support for Visual Studio" error when you install the XP targeting package.

C++ Editor
  • You may lose the property sheet changes in Property Manager.

  • "Exception 0xC0000005; SQLCEOLEDB40.DLL!unloaded" error when you run VC++ applications in Visual Studio 2012.

  • "Exception 0xC0000005;MICROSOFT.VISUALSTUDIO.CPPSVC.INTERNAL.DLL!" error when you run VC++ applications in Visual Studio 2012.

  • You encounter a deadlock between the Devenv.exe and VCPkgSrv.exe files.

  • VC++ project system does not support transitive closure of SDKs.

Standard C++ Library
  • Potential branding issue during installation.

  • Application intermittently crashes when you create an async operation with Parallel Patterns Library (PPL).

C Runtime (CRT)
  • Replace mempcy function for ARM CPU with a faster version from Windows.

Visual Studio Fundamentals
  • NetFx payloads are not the re-signed version in TFS and in team agents.

  • Test professional and feedback client Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) are not included in the list of the Visual Studio 2012.1 bundle.

  • The message on the Visual Studio 2012.1 "uninstall finished" page uses the information icon instead of the warning icon.

  • ProjectReference and SKURef are not updated for the Visual Studio 2012.1 MSP with WDExpress core MSI file.

  • Visual Studio 2012 does not contain the TFS_ServerCore.msi package.

  • Threaded wait dialog title bar colors do not work well with a custom Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 color theme.

Visual Studio IDE
  • Crash occurs when you try to close Visual Studio 2012.

  • "Exception 0xC0000005; DEVENV.EXE!CDevEnvAppId::Run" error when you change the default installation path in Visual Studio 2012.

  • Chrome does not automatically appear in the list of the Browse With dialog in Visual Studio 2012.

  • You cannot start .VSIX setups after you install the July 2012 update in Visual Studio 2012 RC.

Localization
  • Some IntelliSense texts are not translated.

ASP.NET Data
  • Data Sources window is disabled after you build a project. Additionally, a "data sources are not supported by the current project" warning is displayed.

Code Analysis
  • "MSBuild could not locate the Code Analysis tool" error when you run code analysis in Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop.

Agile
  • No feedback when you cannot create stubs or shims for an assembly by using the Fakes function.

My Work
  • You encounter crash and data loss issues in the code review workflow.

  • The work items that are under the selected area path do not show in the "Available Work Items" section of MyWork.

  • The feature enablement infobar does not go away when you upgrade TFS 2010 to TFS 2012.

Debugger
IntelliTrace
  • "'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TraceLogPackage.TraceLogPackage, Microsoft.IntelliTrace.Package.11.0.0, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' package did not load correctly" error when you debug a new project in Visual Studio 2012.

Code Map
  • Flag icons on Code Map are not updated.

T4
  • You cannot debug the T4 template by using the Entity Framework templates.

Lab Manager
  • You cannot create network isolation environments on Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) hosts.

  • You cannot create the TestEnvironment.xml file by using Build Verification Testing (BVT) scripts.

  • LoadTestScenario case fails in the BVT rolling build.

  • "Specified cast is not valid" exception when you try to stop recording for an editing task scenario.

  • You cannot obtain VC++ runtime from Visual Studio 2012 remote store.

  • Test-signing time is too long in Visual Studio 2012.

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