My suggestion is you close your eyes when you use VS2013 and imagine that UI is there. ;-)

>I just hope this version finally gives us the touch-screen interface we've all been clamoring for, with big blocky tiles that have movies and stuff and high all that confusing menu-y stuff and we'll finally be able to develop on our phones instead of these grandpa boxes (that always sounds like coffins to me). I really would like to write code with gestures instead of all this typing ... I've been practicing a one-finger gesture for the MS folks that designed Windows 8
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I started looking at it last night, mostly reading what's been written about it. I did play just a little with MVC 5. There are some pretty cool things in there. There's a beta version of R# that's supposed to work with it. I haven't looked yet. I also haven't looked at NCrunch to see if it works or if I need an upgrade.

>Seriously thanks for the heads up on the VS 2013. VS is one MS offering that just keeps getting better and is obviously driven by a team that actually uses it. Brilliant IDE and a sign there really is hope at MS, at least in terms of developer tools.