Visual Studio 2013 Preview now available as free download

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Published on Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:29:27 GMT Indexed on 2013/06/27 22:22 UTC
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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.aspx

The 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

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