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: The philosophy was simple—less UI chrome meant more raw focus on your code.

: VS 2012 shipped with .NET Framework 4.5, making async and await first-class citizens in C# and VB.NET. It fundamentally changed how we handle I/O-bound operations. Visual Studio 2012.zip

Despite the polarizing visual facelift, the actual machinery under the hood introduced concepts we still rely on today: : The philosophy was simple—less UI chrome meant