ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012 RC, TFS 2012 Monitoring Management Pack AND SQL Server Data Tools December 2012 release now available

This post announces the release of the Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server Monitoring Management Pack, which provides proactive and reactive monitoring of TFS 2012 components like application tier server instances, team project collections, build servers, and proxy servers. It also announces the Release Candidate for ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, which includes enhancements to web publishing, new Web API functionality (OData, tracing, help page generation), new MVC templates (Facebook, Single Page Application), SignalR for real-time communication, and extensionless Web Forms via ASP.NET Friendly URLs. Finally, it announces the December 2012 release of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), which integrates previous Power Tools functionality, adds support for database unit testing (client-side testing based on MSTest, integration with SSDT SQL Server database projects, command-line execution), and includes enhanced SQL Server Object Explorer features (Projects node, Script As, DAC actions).