Visual Studio 2012.zip -

If you were coding in 2012, running the executable inside that zip file introduced you to a massive shock: the sudden death of color.

in the history of Microsoft's flagship IDE. Visual Studio 2012.zip

Despite the polarizing visual facelift, the actual machinery under the hood introduced concepts we still rely on today: If you were coding in 2012, running the

: No more heavy lifting to test local web apps; the zip packed the lightweight IIS 8 Express natively. If you were coding in 2012