With the advent of the Windows 8 Release Preview, Microsoft has just gone live with the download links for release candidate version of Visual Studio 2012 formally known as “Visual Studio 11″. The release has a lot of changes compared to the beta version that was first released in late February.

For your conveience, we have grabbed direct download links from official website. And you can download Visual Studio 2012 RC in different formats from the links given below:

Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate RC

Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate RC is the comprehensive ALM offering for organizations developing and operating highly scalable software applications and services.

Visual Studio 2012 Premium RC

Visual Studio 2012 Premium RC offers an integrated ALM solution to bring together stakeholders, users, and software development functions to deliver compelling applications as a unified team.

Visual Studio 2012 Professional RC

Visual Studio 2012 Professional RC is a unified development experience that enables developers to create multi-tier applications across the web, cloud, and devices.

Visual Studio 2012 Test Professional RC

Visual Studio 2012 Test Professional RC is ideal for testers, business analysts, product managers, and other stakeholders who need team collaboration tools, but not a full development IDE.

Visual Studio 2012 Express RC for Windows 8

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Express RC for Windows 8 provides the core tools that are required to build compelling, innovative Windows Metro style apps. It include a fully featured code editor, a powerful debugger, a focused profiler, and rich language support that you can use to build apps that written in HTML5, JavaScript, C++, C# or Visual Basic. Visual Studio 2012 Express RC for Windows 8 also includes a device simulator that you can use to test Metro style apps on multiple form factors.