Microsoft announced the next version of its developer platform, which will be named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. Microsoft said VS10 will focus on five key areas (in marketing-speak): riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, powering breakthrough departmental applications, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM).
"With Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, we are focused on the core pillars of developer experience, support for the latest platforms spanning client, server, services and devices, targeted experiences for specific application types, and core architecture improvements," said S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft. "These pillars are designed specifically to meet the needs of developers, the teams that drive the application life cycle from idea to delivery, and the customers that demand the highest quality applications across multiple platforms."
Key features include:
- Modeling tools. VS10 will enable both technical and non-technical users to create and use models to collaborate and to define business and system functionality graphically. VS10 will support both UML and Domain Specific Language support.
- Improved efficiency throughout the test cycle. New features include the ability to eliminate non-reproducible bugs, fast setup and deployment of tests to ensure the highest degree of completeness of test, focused test planning and progress tracking, and ensuring that all code changes are properly tested.
- Substantial improvements in collaboration capabilities. The capabilities and scalability of Team Foundation Server (TFS) will be improved. Teams can track work more easily by linking work items with code and models. Visual Studio Team System also introduces workflow-based builds to catch errors before they have a chance to affect the rest of the team or, worse, enter production.
Links
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Press Release
- InfoWorld article
- InfoWorld Sneak Peak with screen shots
- CNET: Visual Studio 2010 to come with "black box"
- CIO: Developers respond to Visual Studio 2010
Article published on September 29, 2008
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September 29th, 2008 at 11:40 am
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September 30th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Geez, I dont try yet VS 2008 with .Net 3.5, Im still with VS 2005 and .Net 2.0 entering to version 3 with Silverlight 2 and M$ already getting into What?!?! VS 2010 ROFL. .Net 4 WTF?. This doesn’t have a limit? I have to throw away every year something I learn from this M$ products. unlearn relearn unlearn relaearn, So Long M$hit!.
September 30th, 2008 at 5:26 am
[…]riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, powering breakthrough departmental applications, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM)[…]
Maybe VS10 is a great piece of technology, but sentences like are crap.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:57 am
It is good news that microsoft annouce next version of .net.
Microsoft shuold take minimum 3 years to lauch next version of .net.
I am just started to work on .net 3.5 and listen about the next vesrion visual studio 2010.
January 27th, 2009 at 1:00 am
“Riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, powering breakthrough departmental applications, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management”. All this doesnt convince me to accept VS10 as an enhancement to Visual Studio. I think Microsoft is way too in a hurry for introducing products in market to maintain the monopoly.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
What’s wrong with new technology?
I suppose you guys are the kind of people to hate buying new TVs too. Why upgrade to a 65″ HDTV plasma when I just got my 42″ CRT 5 years ago!?
Also, you’re definitely in the wrong industry if you complain about having to learn new things. You’ll be the first to be fired in IT department cleanups.
April 21st, 2009 at 3:05 am
You can find some new features in the .NEt 4.0 version here
http://skurocks.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/net-40-%e2%80%93-part-1/
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:54 am
I know the feeling.. yah.. another technology to learn. But, a while ago I decided that the*easiest* way to keep up with technology was to stick with .Net and Visual Studio, because Microsoft is investing the millions in following the industry trends, and putting it into the hands of developers. The alternatives are to either follow the raw trends, or just give up.
As an instance, I had to write an atom feed in PHP. It was horrible. Then I had to write it in C#. I used WCF ServiceModel. It was dead easy – and I got the solution from google, without having to learn all of WCF. So, Microsoft worked out how to do atom feeds, and I got it delivered in visual studio. It’s actually quite an efficient process.
But, their market speak isn’t inspiring 🙂
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October 7th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
I’m never bored with .Net because Microsoft is constantly making improvements.
October 7th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Easily Learn Visual Studio…watch, listen…learn
February 24th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Mehfuz Hossain and Sachin Vinod Rathi is coming this April to India’s 3rd Edition of Great Indian Developer Summit (developersummit dot com) to speak about putting the 2010 version of Visual Studio to use, which will be held on 20th April in IIsc, Bangalore
August 7th, 2010 at 8:19 am
“Next generation platform wave”, how often have we heard that? Wasn’t Microsoft Bob a next generation platform wave 🙂 ?
Who writes this trash? It’s like the Microsoft product description is defined by a buzz-phrase generator.
Here’s a sample: ” Substantial improvements in collaboration capabilities ”
WTF?