Q&A: Are there any new WinForms components in Visual Studio 2012?

Although Microsoft's focus has for a long since shifted away from WinForms applications on the .NET platform, numerous applications still use this pretty nice piece technology. Now that Visual Studio 2012 is soon here, the question is: does the new Visual Studio bring any new WinForms components for the developers.

Though the RTM version isn't currently here, it's pretty safe to say that the answer is no. Just to be sure, I've compared Visual Studio 2012 and 2010 side-by-side, and noticed that all the default-installed components in the "All Windows Forms" category of the Toolbox are exactly equal.

In total, there are 66 components if I counted right, and here's the list:

BackgroundWorker, BindingNavigator, BindingSource, Button, CheckBox, CheckedListBox,
ColorDialog, ComboBox, ContextMenuStrip, DataGridView, DataSet, DateTimePicker,
DirectoryEntry, DirectorySearcher, DornainUpDown, ErrorProvider, EventLog,
FileSysternWatcher, FlowLayoutPanel, FolderBrowserDialog, FontDialog, GroupBox,
HelpProvider, HScrollBar, ImageList, Label, LinkLabel, ListBox, ListView,
MaskedTextBox, MenuStrip, MessageQueue, MonthCalendar, Notifylcon, NumericUpDown,
OpenFileDialog, PageSetupDialog, Panel, PerformanceCounter, PictureBox, PrintDialog,
PrintDocument, PrintPreviewControl, PrintPreviewDialog, Process, ProgressBar,
PropertyGrid, RadioButton, RichTextBox, SaveFileDialog, SerialPoort,
ServiceController, SplicContainer, Splitter, StatusStrip, TabControl,
TableLayoutPanel, TextBox, Timer, ToolStrep, ToolStripContainer, ToolTop, TrackBar,
TreeView, VScrollBar, WebBrowser

Hope this helps!