At
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/2013-downloads, Microsoft have made available Visual Studio 2013 Preview available as a free download. Four versions plus TFS server are available. The versions are:
- Ultimate
- Premium
- Professional
- Test Professional
Installing them will install the Dot Net Framework 4.5.1. Somesgar blogged about this at
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/06/26/visual-studio-2013-preview.aspxThe new features that VS2013 brings in are:
- Round-tipping projects with VS2012 (requires VS2012 Update 3)
- Git support
- Support for Windows 8.1
- Improved asynchronous support
- Improved debugging
- 64-bit edit and continue