We are making more frequent releases that include a balance of updates and enhancements based on our priorities, customer needs, and other influences.

Do you believe we have improved?

The next version of Visual C++ (v11) will already implement a few new features, the ones highlighted here (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/09/12/10209291.aspx).

We’re definitely looking at options to get more features into people’s hands before a complete release cycle (before v12). It would be premature to say anything more specific right now. Hopefully, in the coming months, we’ll have more to say about that.

We will be adding this capability post Dev11 – please refer to the vcblog post for details: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/06/15/10320645.aspx

thanks, and thank you for letting us know how important this was to you.

Doug Turnure, VS Program Manager

PS – Per request of a few folks, I’m going to go ahead and close this item out and release your UserVoice votes back so you can apply them elsewhere.

UPDATE: This SKU is now available for download – details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/09/12/visual-studio-express-2012-for-windows-desktop-is-here.aspx

Thanks for all the feedback on this item. As you may have seen, we will plan to release a Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows desktop this Fall. Full details are here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/08/visual-studio-express-2012-for-windows-desktop.aspx

Thanks,
Doug Turnure – Visual Studio PM

PS – I’m going to go ahead and close this item out and release your UserVoice votes back so you can apply them elsewhere.