Developer: Preview: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

Preview: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

The latest integrated development environment from Microsoft, Visual Studio 2010, and .NET Framework, is packed with features for developers to capture latest development trends in their code

Sandeep Koul

Thursday, August 27, 2009

BANGALORE, INDIA: Microsoft's Visual Studio Pro Edition comes with some outstanding features and the same can be downloded from the company website.

Cloud development
To enable developers to write code that can capture the increasing popularity of Cloud Computing, VS 2010 comes with support for Windows Azure (Cloud environment from Microsoft). Developers can now build, deploy, debug services and applications for Windows Azure using Windows Azure Tools for VS. You can download this tool from http://tinyurl.com/mgozgh.

It enables you to host and run your application on Internet (Microsoft data centers), also also automatically manages resources, load balancing, replication and application life cycle. Features included in VS for Cloud support are: C# and VB Project templates for building Cloud Services, tools to change the service role configuration, integrated local development via development fabric and development storage services, debugging cloud service roles running in the development fabric, building and packaging of cloud service packages, and browsing to Azure Services developer portal.

Parallel programming
To increase the overall computation power, processors are coming with multiple cores on a single die. To successfully harness the power of multi-core or many core systems, conventional sequential applications need to be redesigned. You need to break sequential application into modules to be processed on different cores which is very difficult.

To enable developers to build applications that can harness multi-core capability, VS 2010 comes with following features: Parallel pattern Library, native C++ libraries that use lambda function and align well with Standard Template Library (STL), Parallel Extension to .NET Framework, library based support for imperative data and task parallelism via the Task Parallel Library, support for declarative data parallelism via PLINQ, and work coordination and managing shared state via Coordination Data Structures, Concurrency Runtime, resource management of multi-core hardware and task scheduling, parallel debugging windows which will provide a view of tasks running in the application, and a graphical view of parallel call stacks, Parallel profiling views which will give developers an understanding of their application's core utilization, thread behavior and contention blocking, and thread execution pattern per core.

SharePoint development
Microsoft SharePoint support is also provided in VS 2010. Developers can quickly create or update SharePoint elements, use Server explorer to browse SharePoint site and its content, and import existing SharePoint content using the WSP Importer.

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