The RTM-versions of Visual Studio 2012, .NET 4.5 and Windows 8 will be available in less than a week on 15 August 2012. This is a very important date for all you developers out there !
Developers subscribing to MSDN will be able to download the Windows 8 RTM version on August 15. Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 will also be available via MSDN on the same date.
Note that the RTM-versions (release to manufacturing) contains already everything that the final version for the customers will contain ! So from this date on you may validate your applications in a real production environment.
In the meantime download the Release Candidate versions and Release Preview versions and familiarize yourself with all the new features of those products.
[VS 2012 - .NET 4.5] Visual Studio 2012 & .NET 4.5 RTM in August