This should make it easier to understand which tool you need for your development and price point. There are now only three primary editions of the tool: professional, premium, and ultimate. With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has simplified the product line. It also covers general programming against the. NET Languages," is a quick primer on coding constructs in VB and C#. It also serves to familiarize you with the basics of the IDE. Chapter 2, "The Visual Studio IDE," is an introduction to getting the tool installed, running it, and creating that first project.
This chapter provides a snapshot of all things Visual Studio. Note - Part I, "An Introduction to Visual Studio 2010," is broken into three chapters.
Our hope is to give you enough information in this chapter to get the full picture of what is available to you when you build solutions using Visual Studio. NET programmers including building Web, Windows, cloud, data, and service applications. The remaining sections of the chapter cover the many possibilities open to. We first help you sort through the product choices available to. This chapter covers the core make-up and capabilities of Visual Studio 2010.
Major additions and improvements to Windows Workflow and Windows Communication Foundation.Building for the cloud with Windows Azure.Support for building Web applications using the latest versions of Silverlight.Support for simplified, parallel programming against multi-core devices.A better experience on multiple monitors.Improved support for Microsoft Office programming including SharePoint development.If you've been developing for a long time, you've come to expect that a new release of the IDE comes with advanced programming models, more acronyms, a few fresh project types, and improved ways to view and organize code. This latest version is about increasing developer productivity while providing developers with choices and flexibility when building their solutions. NET Framework 4.0 introduce many new features to an already full-featured toolset. Write Connected, Service-Oriented Solutions.Languages, Frameworks, and Application Templates.