Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Visual Studio 2010 released!

"There is no question that the world runs on software" with such words a high-level Microsoft executive revealed Microsoft latest development platform, Visual Studio 2010 and the accompanying .Net framework 4.

The release event was hosted by Mr. Bob Muglia, president of the server and tools business at Microsoft. Mr.Muglia and other Microsoft representatives onstage showed off capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 highlighting new capabilities, including multiple-monitor support, refactoring and zoom capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation-based code editor and integration capabilities with other Microsoft technologies, such as the SharePoint collaboration platform, Windows 7 OS, Silverlight, and the Windows Azure cloud platform.

A great emphasis has been put on cloud as Muglia underscored a phenomenal opportunity that Microsoft sees in the cloud environment - developers can develop and test applications on their local machine via Visual Studio 2010 before deploying them to the cloud. Muglia called cloud computing a "major inflection point" in computing, on par with the advent of PCs and the Internet.

Visual Studio 2010 ships in several editions and is available at the same name website, while .Net framework 4 can be found in MS download center

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