Your application should build and run in Visual Studio without exception and your design team will thank you, because the design time data is still available in Expression Blend (note: you may need to ...

Visual Studio 2012 adds optimization features for ASP.Net development as well. This includes “minification,” which reduces the footprint of an application’s JavaScript libraries for deployment.

Nick Randolph shows how to create and work with the Application Bar in your Windows Phone application.

That’s exactly what Microsoft has done with service packs to Visual Studio 2012 and now with the release of Visual Studio 2013.