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This report is designed to help IT managers begin their evaluation Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4. It outlines the major new and changed feature areas, tools, and libraries offered with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 to help development teams decide how they could benefit from the new technologies and what adoption of the new platform may entail.
Introduction
- Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 are major updates to Microsoft's development platform with additions and enhancements across almost all areas, such as the integrated development environment and new testing and modeling tools
Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment
- Visual Studio 2010 includes a reworked integrated development environment with interface improvements, better scalability for large code bases, and new extensibility hooks
Visual Studio Test Tools
- Visual Studio 2010 offers new tools and features that could make software quality assurance teams more effective while saving time and cutting costs
Visual Studio Modeling, Architecture Tools
- Visual Studio 2010 includes new modeling tools to visualize and manipulate source code graphically and enforce architectural requirements as software is developed
Team Foundation Server Enhancements
- Visual Studio 2010 includes a new version of Team Foundation Server, which advances build and project management while supporting more scalable deployments
SharePoint Tools in Visual Studio 2010
- New tools and templates in Visual Studio 2010 may make SharePoint applications easier to build, deploy, and modify
Visual Studio Protects, Monitors .NET Applications
- Visual Studio 2010 includes a new version of Dotfuscator, a tool that can prevent reverse engineering, and inject usage monitoring, tampering detection, and expiration dates into .NET applications
Web Development in Visual Studio 2010
- The .NET Framework 4 includes ASP.NET 4.0, which offers improved Web site development capabilities through enhancements to Microsoft's Model-View-Controller and Ajax Libraries and other tooling
Workflow and Communication Foundations
- The .NET Framework 4 includes a major rewrite of the Windows Workflow Foundation and improvements to the Windows Communication Foundation
Entity Framework in .NET 4
- The Entity Framework 4, part of the .NET Framework 4, adds key items requested by developers, such as support for POCO and model-first development
.NET 4 Parallel Libraries, Dynamic Languages
- The .NET Framework 4 helps developers write code to take full advantage of parallel hardware and enables dynamic programming languages
.NET Framework 4 Backward Compatibility
- The .NET Framework 4 adds a new level of side-by-side compatibility with earlier versions of the Framework
C++ Development in Visual Studio 2010
- Visual Studio 2010 includes several enhancements to its C++ development environment that could help developers using that language build applications more efficiently
Silverlight 4 & Blend
- Silverlight 4 has shipped, and a Blend 4 release candidate is available, providing new capabilities for building RIAs, in addition to applications on the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform
Visual Studio 2010 Editions and Packaging
- Visual Studio 2010 offers a streamlined product lineup, simplifying purchase options
Resources
- Links to further resources about Visual Studio 2010, the .NET Framework 4, and related topics
Charts, Illustrations & SideBars
- Illustration: Creating a Windows Azure Project
- Illustration: Source Code Editor Enhancements
- Illustration: Call Hierarchy Window
- Illustration: New Debugger Windows
- Illustration: New Profiling Views
- Illustration: Test Manager Tool
- Illustration: Lab Management
- Illustration: Use-Case Diagram
- Illustration: Sequence Diagram in VS 2010
- Illustration: Architecture Explorer
- Illustration: Architecture Layer Diagram
- Illustration: VS/TFS Layout
- Sidebar: TFS Eclipse Integration
- Illustration: ETM Architecture
- Sidebar: ASP.NET Web Forms vs. MVC
- Sidebar: JQuery Support, IntelliSense in Visual Studio
- Sidebar: Workflow Redesign Not Backward Compatible
- Illustration: WF 4 Designer Tool
- Illustration: Entity Framework 4 Designer
- Sidebar: WCF Data Services
- Sidebar: F#, a New Language in Visual Studio
- Illustration: Visual Studio 2010 Packaging
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