Summary of VS2010 feature list?

Question

Does anyone have a summary list of what new features are available in VS2010? And what and high level requirements are (OS, etc)?

Answer 1

Here are a couple of links to get you reading (the first one is a slideshow):

• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsoft-Visual-Studio-2010-New-Features/
• http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/sep08/09-29VS10PR.mspx
• http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210604432

Answer 2

A good place to start is the Visual Studio section on Channel 9.

• http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio/

There are a number of 2010 links on that page which give great introductions and walk throughs of the upcoming features.

Answer 3

The .NET Framework universe poster is here http://tinyurl.com/PDC2008-NETFX4PDF

(deep zoom version): http://tinyurl.com/DotNetFramework4PosterDeepZoom

This is the best place to start your journey into features. The MIX conference had a couple of sessions on VS 2010 that are worth looking at, and I see someone mentioned the Channel 9 video series.

Here are some features I think are worthwhile:

1. UML
2. Black box - rerun tests from a recorder
3. Test first development (create stubs from tests)
4. Managed Extensability Framework (MEF) - Yeah, it can be used for UI, as well
5. F# as a completely supported language
6. Silverlight and WPF designers

The official site has quite a few links to look at: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx

Answer 4

MSDN has an article on What's New in Visual Studio 2010

Answer 5

The list of features, together with the table showing which are available for which version, is now up here (Microsoft).

Note that the versions for less than $12,000 are seriously crippled, to various degrees. So Code Coverage is only available from $5K up, and Historical Debugger (now "Intellitrace") only for $12K.

Answer 6

How can no one have linked to the Gu ?

Gu Blog items on VS2010

Answer 7

Check this - New features of Visual Studio 2010

Answer 8

Check this - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/04/12/visual-studio-2010-and-net-4-released.aspx