As best I can tell with my lack of experience with VS Shell2012, there are no c++ editor type. I am evaluating whether a VS Shell would be a good(quick and simple) ide for remote compilation and debugging on a target like a Beaglebone or Beaglebone black.
I have done this with netbeans, but it does not seem to have a way to save all the makefile dependencies and requires a minor fix of a manual copy of those files. Everything else on netbeans works well enough.