Final releases of Visual Studio 2013, .NET 4.5.1, and Team Foundation Server 2013 are now available.
As part of the new release, the C++ engine implements variadic
templates, delegating constructors, non-static data member initializers,
uniform initialization, and 'using' aliases. The editor has seen new features, C++ improvements and performance optimizations. Support for Windows 8.1 has been enhanced and the new XAML UI Responsiveness tool and Profile Guided Optimization help to analyze responsiveness in Windows Store apps. Graphics debugging has been furthered to have better C++ AMP tools
and a new remote debugger (x86, x64, ARM). As before, MSDN and
DreamSpark subscribers can obtain the releases from the respective
channels, and the Express edition is available zero cost for all.