Hi,
There is an open source graphics library called OpenGL which works very well with Visual Studio.
You can google to find out more about this library.
Here are the easy steps[
^] for installing and running it with Visual Studio. There are around 18 tutorials (if i remember correctly) in total, which cover the basics of how to use the OpenGL APIs. This link is for the first one.
Although the tutorial is for VS2010, but i hope steps will not be very different for VS2012 so you can give it a try .
Also I must mention that
DirectX is also a great option on Windows platform .[
^]
Hope this helps.