Last month at the //build/ conference, we announced the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and today at TechEd North America we delivered the RTM version of the software development suite’s latest update. Today’s release provides developers with the final Update 2 bits. From a Windows platform perspective, this update primarily improves stability; no new APIs are included. (See upgrade information below).
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Upgrade Information: To upgrade your development environment to Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RTM, we highly recommend updating from within Visual Studio 2013 using ‘Tools’ ->‘Extensions and Updates’; you can also download the bits from the Microsoft Download Center. For more information, see the Visual Studio team blog.