原文：http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2011/09/14/announcing-visual-studio-11-developer-preview.aspx
Enhancements for Game Development
We have added Visual Studio Graphics tools to help game developers become more productive, making it easier to build innovative games. Visual Studio 11 provides access to a number of resource editing, visual design, and visual debugging tools for writing 2D / 3D games and Metro style applications. Specifically, Visual Studio Graphics includes tools for:
我们增加了VS图形工具集来帮助游戏开发者提高生产力，使交互式游戏的设计变得更容易，VS11借此在开发2D/3D游戏和Metro风格程序的时候提供了资源编辑、可视化设计和调试方面的功能。具体的，VS图形工具集包含了如下的工具：
Viewing and basic editing of 3D models in Visual Studio 11.
预览和简单的编辑一些3D模型
Viewing and editing of images and textures with support for alpha channels and transparency.
预览和编辑带alpha通道和透明度信息的图片和纹理
Visually designing shader programs and effect files.
可视化的设计shader程序和effect文件
Debugging and diagnostics of DirectX based output.
对DirectX的输出进行调试和诊断
