Developer Tools Roadmap

Visual Studio 2010 will support development for new platforms and emerging development trends. Expected in late 2009, Visual Studio 2010 will deliver support for Windows 7 and the .NET Framework 4 application development, tools for optimizing development for parallel computing environments, and support for implementing applications for Microsoft’s Windows Azure application-hosting service and SharePoint. The Visual Studio 2010 integrated development environment will be built on the Windows Presentation Framework, which will give it a new look and make it more extensible than previous versions.

Visual Studio Team System 2010, expected in late 2009, adds new testing capabilities, including the ability to take a snapshot of an environment in which a bug occurs so that it can be easily reproduced for debugging. Test cases can be written before the code to be tested has been completed, and testers can view which cases are impacted when code is changed. Code architecture can be viewed graphically to make the structure of a project more understandable.