MS launches Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4

BANGALORE, INDIA: BANGALORE, INDIA:

Microsoft India today made major announcements at Tech-Ed India, which began here today. Today, the company has made its Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4, available. The company also announced that it would release Sliverlight 4 RTW later this week.

“Visual Studio is the most widely used developer tool in the world today. We have taken the new Visual Studio to a whole new level. Visual Studio 2010 would help in translating ideas into action. It would accelerate design and development,” said S. Somasegar, senior vice president, Microsoft Corp., while delivering his keynote address at the event.

He further said that technology advancements is happening at phenomenal pace and developers are worried about keeping up with the pace. Constant interruptions, limited collaboration, falling behind are some of the major problems that developers face. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 mitigate these pain points and help developers to stay in zone, get current with effective team work.”

The Visual Studio 2010 features include:

* New Editor, using Windows Presentation Foundation, which delivers a flexible feature-rich environment that supports concepts such as use of multiple monitors. This enables a developer to have one monit with code, another with the user interface designer and yet another with database structure

* Built-in support for Windows 7 multi touch and 'ribbon' interfaces.

* Integrated access to SharePoint functionality into the Visual Studio IDE

* Windows Azure tools to quickly develop, debug, test, and deploy cloud applications from familiar Visual
   Studio environment

* Built-in support for ASP.NET model-view-controller

* Windows Phone 7 developers would be able to build applications using Visual Studio with integrated phone design surface

Having taken a cue from growing demands of the software development ecosystem, Visual Studio 2010 provides tools for the entire team. IntelliTrace, a 'time machine' for developers and testers, is aimed at making non-reproducible bugs virtually a thing of the past by recording the application's execution history and providing reproduction of the reported bug, enabling the tester to help squash the bug once and for all.

The .NET Framework 4 offers more language support for high performance middle-tier applications including parallel programming, and side by side installation with .NET Framework 3.5.

New features in Silverlight 4 include out-of-browser capabilities, enhancements for enterprise application developer, and more than 60 customizable pre-written controls to quickly build rich interactive applications.