Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2012 enables remote debugging, remote testing, and performance unit testing on computers that don’t have Visual Studio installed.  This set of tools also enables the installation of a developer license, deployment, and performance profiling of Windows apps to computers that are running Windows 8.

The Remote Tools package is intended for computers that don’t have Visual Studio so that you can debug, test, and profile apps that are executing on them. However, Visual Studio must be installed on the development computer that’s connected to the computers that have the Remote Tools. Connection to the remote debugger and profiler tools is supported in Visual Studio Ultimate 2012, Visual Studio Premium 2012, Visual Studio Professional 2012, and Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8.  Connection to the test features requires Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 or Visual Studio Test Professional 2012.

System requirements

Supported operating systems: Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2012

Windows 7 SP1 (x86 and x64)
Windows 8 (x86,x64, ARM)
Windows Server 2008 SP2 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x64)
Windows Server 2012 (x64)

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