Beside IntelliTrace, what are some top reasons to upgrade to Visual Studio 2010?
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Improved designer support for WPF
Improved IDE experience (for example, adding references is much faster).
Architecture tools (class diagram, sequence diagram, diagram enforcement, etc).
Support for multiple monitors.
Justin Niessner
2010-08-18 16:42:21
I personally feel like VS2010 is a much better experience than previous versions. Super slim tool window borders, great multi-screen support, and oh I don't have to wait for Add References anymore.
qstarin
2010-08-18 16:45:12
Yes, to me it also seems faster, when debugging large projects.You can even copy References from project to project, with the power tools from Microsoft (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb980963.aspx)
SwissCoder
2010-08-18 16:50:14
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Tools Echo System
Visual Studio 2010 introduced a brand new extension story and a new WPF editor. It greatly reduced the barriers for building extensions and increased the expressiveness of such extensions. The result is a slew of new extensions for Visual Studio that provide a lot of the missing or desired functionality.
The extensions are available through the Extension Manager in Visual Studio and can additionally be searched online on the Visual Studio gallery.
This is the app store for Visual Studio with mostly free extensions.
IMHO, this is the #1 reason to upgrade to 2010.
JaredPar
2010-08-18 16:42:47
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- Enables future development against .NET 4.0
- Allows access to new versions of build tools
Mark
2010-08-18 16:43:51
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If you edit XAML/WPF-Forms a lot, then you will enjoy working with VS2010 instead of VS2008. It is more "Blend" like. There is also some nice Plug-In from Karl Shifflet XAML power toys
SwissCoder
2010-08-18 16:46:39
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Named/Optional parameters for C#. You can use them while targeting 3.5 because 2.0 IL allows it so the new compiler can use it.
Davy8
2010-08-18 16:54:20
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- New features, like improved intellisense support
- IntelliTrace
- Improved debug power, for example you can pin tooltips to screen while you are debugging.
- Best integration for Visual Studio ALM
- Of course multi monitor support
- More friendly WPF designer, for example at vs 2008 if you are trying to open a user control's xaml document as Design mode in class library project; you can not. But at vs 2010 you can.
bahadir arslan
2010-08-19 06:58:36