Intellitrace not available for VS 2012 Professional edition? - visual-studio-2012

If so, how do i turn it on? I don't see it under Tools-> Options
If not, anywhere I can download it?

Here is the product matrix from the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 site.
It shows that it is only available for the Ultimate edition.
Are you sure your coworker has it on Pro?

Intellitrace is not available in Microsoft Visual Studio Professional version, intellitrace is available in Visual Studio Ultimate edition only.

Yes, you can have Intellitrace in Visual Studio 2013 Professional, because there is a bug in Visual Studio licencing system. It happen in some circumstances.

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Why Architecture menu in visual studio 2012 Premium does not work

Architecture menu in visual studio 2012 Premium does not work. It is showing me in disable mode.I checked in customize menu but toolbar added in Disable form. I can not generate the "Visualize Code Dependencies on Dependency Graphs".
Is there any option without upgrading Visual studio 2012 from Premium to Ultimate Architecture menu work.?
No, it is an Ultimate only tool.
Architecture menu in Visual Studio show only with Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate edition.To use this option/feature need to buy Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate edition.

Migration from VS 2008 to VS2012 or VS 2013

I recently migrated my VC++ 6.0 application code to Visual studio 2008 in Windows 7. Now, I would like to migrate my project again to Visual studio 2012/2013 in Windows 7. Which is prefered and why?
Visual studio 2008 to visual studio 2012
or
Visual studio 2008 to visual studio 2013
Please advise.
Thanks!
Ankush
I would just migrate directly to VS2013. The changes between VS2012 and VS2013 are minor and none of them game-breaking.
I would also suggest looking at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/06/27/what-s-new-for-visual-c-developers-in-vs2013-preview.aspx and maybe the official MSDN articles
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb386063(v=vs.110).aspx for VS2012
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb386063(v=vs.120).aspx for VS2013
This may alert you to anything you might want to change\investigate before upgrade. At the end though if your goal is VS2013 then just do 1 upgrade, 1 set of tests etc.

What is the equivalent to Microsoft Help Viewer in Visual Studio 2012?

I'd like to create a help viewer like the one available on Visual Studio 2010 called Microsoft Help Viewer according to Wikipedia, what is its equivalent on Visual Studio 2012 as it seen to be not available?
There is a Help Viewer that comes with Visual studio 2012.
Visual Studio uses Help Viewer 2.0.
You can open the help viewer by pressing ctrl+F1 when using vs.

Which version of Visual Studio 2012 has the profiler? Professional / Premium / Ultimate?

Microsoft web site has conflicting information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182372.aspx
... using the Profiling Tools of Visual Studio Premium and Visual Studio Ultimate to analyze performance issues ...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264994.aspx
Requirements
Visual Studio Ultimate, Visual Studio Premium, Visual Studio Professional
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/compare
Professional: Examine and refine your code with extensive tools for app debugging and profiling
Ultimate: Collect and analyze runtime diagnostic data from production systems
Ultimate: Perform unlimited web performance and load testing
I think I am right in saying that 2010 Professional did NOT have the profiler, and you needed Premium or Ultimate edition. Has this changed for 2012?
VS 2012 Pro includes the profiler.
These Visual Studio 2012 versions supports Profiling Visual Studio Ultimate, Visual Studio Premium, Visual Studio Professional

Visual Studio 2012 and Silverlight 5

Does VS 2012 come with SL 5?, if it doesn't, what can I do?, I guess the tools installed for VS 2010 don't work with VS 2012.
If I don't uninstall VS 2010, will Silverlight 5 work in VS 2012 without doing anything?
According to MS SilverLight Forums.
does anyone know if Silverlight 5 Tools for Visual Studio is
compatible with visual studio 2012 rc? i haven't found a vs2012
specific version.
With this answer
Hi,
You don't need that. You can create Silverlight projects directly in
Visual Studio 2012 RC. For more Visual Studio 2012 RC compatibility
issues please refer to:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh266747(v=vs.110).aspx
Sincerely, Allen Chen Microsoft Online Community Support
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them if they provide no help.
So I assume that it's also true for the RTM release.

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