A quick bit of news from the DevExpress R&D department, of interest especially to those who are thinking of upgrading to Visual Studio 2013.
Microsoft have stated that Visual Studio 2013 will RTM at Windows 8.1 GA on November 13, 2013, although the RC (release candidate) is available now if you are an MSDN or TechNet subscriber. Please note though that the RC is *not* the RTM version: there have been changes to the beta bits already from when the RC was made available.
Now, having said that, there’s a couple of items of note. Firstly, we have already announced our support for Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 with regard to our Metro controls, er, sorry, our Windows 8.x XAML controls. Secondly, with regard to everything else we do for .NET, we have some obvious news and some that is not so obvious.
As you might have already guessed, we shall be supporting the released version of Visual Studio 2013 with our current version of our packages on the day it is published. Like, duh, as the young people say. In other words, we will deliver a minor 13.1.x version with this support on the day of release. The not-so-obvious news is that we shall *also* be publishing a minor version of the 12.2 series that will support Visual Studio 2013. So, if you are still targeting .NET 3.5 and would like to use the new features of the latest IDE to create/maintain your application, we will deliver that support at the same time in a 12.2.x version.
If you’ve got any feedback about this news, or about anything else that DevExpress are doing, please don’t hesitate to contact me at julianb@devexpress.com.
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