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Microsoft is releasing Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, and Silverlight 4 at the Visual Studio Developer Conference in Las Vegas.  VS 2010 and .NET 4 are available today, and Silverlight 4 will be available to download later this week.

Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2010 comes in four flavors: Pro, Premium, Ultimate and Test Pro.  There are many new features including:

• Improved IDE with tear-away pages and multi-monitor support
• Search as you type
• Call hierarchy to see who calls what
• IntelliSense suggestion mode
• IntelliTrace Tivo-like debugging
• Extension manager
• Generate from Usage: use classes/members before defining them
• Live semantic errors (those colored squiggly lines)

Visual Studio 2010 Home Page
VS 2010 Product Highlights
What’s New in VS 2010
10 Cool Things About VS 2010

C# and Visual Basic

The main .NET languages C# and Visual Basic both saw significant improvements and new features including:

• Dynamic type and dynamic dispatch
• Named parameters and optional parameters
• Optional arguments and indexed properties
• Covariance and contravariance
• Statement lambdas
• Highlight all references of a symbol
• Implicit line continuations
• Office Automation APIs
• Auto-implemented properties

What’s New in Visual C# 2010
What’s New in Visual Basic 2010

.NET Framework 4

.NET Framework 4.0 is a major upgrade with many new features including:

• Support for the new language features mentioned above
• Support for IronPython, IronRuby, F# and M programming languages
• Oslo modelling platform
• Arbitrary-precision arithmetic types and complex numbers
• Parallel Extensions for multi-core and distributed systems

.NET Framework Home Page
What’s New in .NET 4
.NET 4 Code Examples

Article published on April 12, 2010

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