Why upgrade to VS 2010?

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What’s the compelling reason to upgrade to Visual Studio 2010 from VS2008?

Many people seem to be upgrading to VS 2010 from what I can tell. Considering that the cost isn't minimal, what are the driving features that are spurring people to upgrade?

Obviously, I'm interested in seeing any that might affect me so the environment here is:

• VS 2008 Standard
• C# on .NET 3.5
• Winforms
• NUnit
• MySQL

So what am I missing? Are the benefits more geared towards WPF/Silverlight developers and/or teams with TFS?

Answer 1

You will need Visual Studio 2010 to take advantage of any of the new features in .NET Framework 4.0.

If you don't need .NET Framework 4.0, you may not need VS 2010.

Answer 2

1. Improved IntelliSense! (keyword searching in the middle of names, etc.)

2. Multi-Monitor Support

3. You'll need it to use .NET 4.0 features (in the IDE).

4. New Architecture tools

5. New Testing tools

6. F# is a First Class language

7. SharePoint 2010 Integration

...and the list goes on. Visual Studio 2010 really is a huge jump forward as far as just the interface goes.

Answer 3

Scott Gu has a few blog posts on the new features

My picks:

• Intellisense Improvements

• Code Navigation.

• Intelli Trace debugging.

• Extension Manager.

Answer 4

Kind of a anti-answer but one reason not to update is the .net integration with mySQL for VS2010 is still in beta. The current build will not install on my machine.

Answer 5

Support for debugging and profiling multi-threaded code has been significantly improved.

This TechEd session video has some good examples.

Answer 6

C++0x is partially supported, exciting stuff!

Answer 7

I upgraded it (note: i use the Express version) because it suports some c++0x features.