It was the primary tool for building the first generation of Windows Store apps (WinRT).
Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate was the flagship Integrated Development Environment (IDE) released by Microsoft on September 12, 2012. As the supreme tier of the Visual Studio 2012 product line, it was designed to address the needs of development teams requiring comprehensive Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), advanced debugging, and architecture validation tools. This report details the capabilities, system architecture, and historical significance of the platform, while also addressing its current end-of-life status.
For its time, Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate had moderate to heavy system requirements due to the resource-intensive nature of its architecture tools.
VS2012 was a radical departure. After the success of VS2010, Microsoft needed to modernize the IDE for:
Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate was the only edition capable of complete end-to-end development, testing, and architectural validation within a single license.