The new release of Visual Studio 2010 has plenty of compelling new features and updates that will make every developer more productive. For instance:
- Visual Studio 2010 allows users target of the right platform for their application, including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint. Office, Windows Azure, and Windows Phone 7 applications using their existing skills.
- Visual Studio 2010 is a rich, personalized development environment. We know that software developers spend much of their time in the IDE, and features like the new editor and multi-monitor support make your time in Visual Studio more productive and enjoyable.
Teams are able to work more efficiently using Application Lifecycle Management tools. The Visual Studio 2010 team have done a great deal of work in Visual Studio 2010 to improve testing and debugging tools. Features like IntelliTrace and easy project management help your team ensure high quality.
If you are an MSDN subscriber, later in the day on April 12th you can download Visual Studio 2010 from MSDN.
It’s a book that will help professional developers move from previous versions of Visual Studio (starting with 2003 and on up). It will cover the features of Visual Studio 2010 through an application. It will go through a lot of the exciting new language features and new versions of the most popular technologies without putting the emphasis on the technologies themselves. It will instead put the emphasis on how you would get to those new tools and features from Visual Studio 2010.
Get your copy here.
ReSharper 5 Beta 2 released, works with VS2010 RC build.
Improvements/Fixes:
- Support for Visual Studio 2010 RC
- Extended ASP.NET MVC functionality
- Stable Structural Search and Replace
- Multiple usability improvements
Learn more and download it.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC and .Net Framework 4 RC have been released and available for download. Please click on the link provided below to go to the download page.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=457bab91-5eb2-4b36-b0f4-d6f34683c62a&displaylang=en
In Visual Studio 2008, all documents/files/designers are hosted within a single top-level window – which unfortunately means that you can’t partition the IDE across multiple monitors.
VS 2010 addresses this by now allowing editors, designers and tool-windows to be moved outside the top-level window and positioned anywhere you want, and on any monitor on your system. This allows you to significantly improve your use of screen area, and optimize your overall development workflow.
If you work on a system that has multiple monitors connected to it, you will find the new multi-monitor support feature within VS2010 a big productivity boost. But if you don’t already have multiple monitors connected to your computer, this might be a good excuse to get some…
For more information, please see the original post at:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/08/31/multi-monitor-support-vs-2010-and-net-4-series.aspx
NArrange is a .NET code beautifier that automatically organizes code members and elements within .NET classes.
Why You Should Use NArrange?
There are several reasons you may want to consider using NArrange for your .NET software project:
- Reduces the amount of time developers spend arranging members within code files. With NArrange, you don’t need to worry about where you place a new member definition in a class… just type away and run NArrange prior to compilation. After formatting, the new member will be automatically moved to the appropriate location in the source file.
- Helps enforce coding style standards
- When used as part of check-in procedures, NArrange can help reduce source code repository conflicts.
- NArrange can automatically group similar code members into predefined region blocks, if supported by the language (C# and VB).
- Reduces the amount of time spent searching for specific members in a code file. Through standard arrangement of source code files, every member of the team will know exactly where in a file to look for private fields, constructors, etc.
- Flexibility – NArrange allows you to configure how members are organized (grouping, sorting, regions, etc.)
- Sort Usings
For more information about this free product (open source), please go here.