Visual Studio 2010 is now out! It’s a very exciting product, with a host of improvements over the 2008 version and a bunch of new features. For example, the standard web template (for either a Web Application or a Web Site) now includes a stylesheet file (CSS), a master page, login page, registration page and about page. That means that before you even add one thing to the project, it is a working web app.There are a lot of other new features, but one thing that stands out for me, is that much of the Visual Studio interface has been designed using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). For me, it’s exciting because it shows just what you can do using WPF. It also means that we have a lot of extra capability built into VS. For example, you can use zoom features on the designers and editors in VS2010. As an instructor, that’s awesome since many times while teaching I want to make sure students can see what I am doing. This allows me to bring it in closely.
With tons more things to like about Visual Studio 2010, I'll be covering a lot of things about the product in future posts. And don’t forget: Centriq’s first VS2010 offering comes in August when I will be teaching Introduction to Web Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010!
- Leslie Koorhan, .NET Expert; MCT, MCSD (.NET), MCTS, MCDBA, MCPD LinkIn with Leslie
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