Visual Studio 2010 Beta – Monday May 18 – Fire Up The Virtual Machines!

by Scott Kane on 18. May, 2009 in Micro ISV

Looking forward to downloading Visual Studio 2010 beta in the early hours of tomorrow (Australian Eastern Standard Time) hopefully.  As I’m going to have some downtime in the next week or so due to an operation on my right hand (a pesky skin cancer to be cut out and replaced with a piece from around my upper arm on Wednesday they tell me) I should manage to put some “playing time” in – albeit one handed with my left hand.

visual studio After signing with Microsoft’s BizSpark ISV program last November and switching across to VisualStudio .Net after 13 years with Delphi I’ve been delighted with the productivity VisualStudio has afforded me.  VisualStudio 2010 has a bunch of new features so while the hand is healing I’m going to fiddle with a few of them inside a Virtual Machine.  I’m expecting a few bits and pieces that will target Windows 7 features and some expansion on Vista features.  Hopefully in the UI stakes too.

With any luck in the coming days I’ll be able to share some of those new features here.

From what I’ve been able to tell the feature set to be included is:

  • An “enhanced user experience” – a shiny new IDE design
  • Tools for Windows 7 development
  • .Net 4.0
  • SharePoint development inside Visual Studio
  • Enhanced Web development capabilities
  • One-click deployment and support for poor old Silverlight
  • Cloud development support, with Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio
  • Updated database support for a variety of MS and non MS databases.
  • Parallel programming
  • Enhanced support for ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)

Jason Zander, general manager for Visual Studio in Microsoft’s Developer Division, posted on his blog (see previous link) in detail about some of the changes they’ve made, particularly in relation to user feedback.

Note the public beta is probably going to become available sometime following the MSDN release.

Scott Kane
Quote of the day:
I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks. – Groucho Marx

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2 Responses to “Visual Studio 2010 Beta – Monday May 18 – Fire Up The Virtual Machines!”

  1. Mike Wilson 18. May, 2009 at 10:36 pm #

    Hi Scott,

    Thanks for the heads up. I’d be keen to hear your thoughts on VS2010.

    I’m hoping for an inbuilt XML editor and the visual modelling tools that MS say they were going to provide :P (and multi-monitor support!).

    Cheers,

    Mike

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  2. Scott Kane 21. May, 2009 at 7:34 am #

    G’day Mike!

    Haven’t had a chance to play with it yet. After I have the operation today I’ll try and get to it in the coming days.

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