Today Microsoft released Windows 8 Release Preview and visual studio 2012 rc. I'm a Windows phone developer. What dev tool I have to use for create my apps in Windows 8 rp?
Visual Studio 2012: support ends on January 10, 2023 for the IDE and its associated products, runtimes, and components. We recommend users upgrade to a newer version of Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2017: mainstream support ends April 12, 2022, and the product will transition to extended support until April 2027.
Visual Studio 2012 is the tool to develop applications for this new generation of tablet devices -- both Windows 8 x86 devices and the new Windows RT ARM devices. Visual Studio 2012 lets you create Windows 8 applications using a variety of languages: C++
Today Visual Studio has made Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop available and you can go download it now free.
In Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 express download page, it is mentioned like
"A Visual Studio 2012 Express product for Windows Phone will be available in conjunction with the next Windows Phone release. Until then, you can continue to use Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone to create Windows Phone apps."
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/products/express
The Windows Phone 8 SDK is out now, for those that are still reading this. It includes the 7.1 and 7.1.1 as well, and all runs within Visual Studio 2012. You can get it here:
https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk
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