Visual Studio 2010 – Launch Date – Today

Finally the day has come. 12^th April(Today) is the launch date of .NET Framework 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010. VS 2010 Beta 1 was launched on 18^th may 2009. After five months Microsoft launched VS 2010 Beta-2 on 21^st October 2009. Microsoft released the Release candidate (RC) Version of VS 2010 on 10th Feb 2010. Now, finally 12^th April -2010 is going to be biggest day for .NET world as Visual Studio 2010 launching today.

Visual studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 came up with many new features for next generation developers. Below are the few lists of features that are available with VS 2010

Visual Studio 2010 IDE and .NET Framework 4.0

Call Hierarchy of methods
A New Quick Search
Multi-targeting
Multi-Monitor
Parallel Programming
Visual Debugging
XSLT Profiling and Debugging
The XSD Designer
Code Navigation in Class Files
Code Identifier Highlighting

New ASP.NET features

Static IDs for ASP.NET Controls
Web.config transformation
URL Routing and SEO
Compressing Session Values
MetaKeyword and MetaDescription
Generating Client IDs
Permanent Redirect

New C# features

Dynamic Types
Optional parameters
Named and Optional Arguments

This are only few list of features, there are many more features available. Over couple of months I came across many good articles on Visual studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. Below are few of them. It may help many of guys who are just start working with VS 2010 or Thinking for start with

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/net/Visual-Studio-2010-and-NET-Framework-4-IDE-Enhancements-Part1.aspx

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/net/Visual-Studio-2010-and-NET-Framework-4-IDE-Enhancements-Part2.aspx

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/net/Visual-Studio-2010-and-NET-Framework-4-IDE-Enhancements-Part3.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/03/30/cleaner-html-markup-with-asp-net-4-web-forms-client-ids-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/13/url-routing-with-asp-net-4-web-forms-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/29/add-reference-dialog-improvements-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/22/vs-2010-code-intellisense-improvements-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/01/05/asp-net-4-seo-improvements-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/01/27/extensible-output-caching-with-asp-net-4-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

http://www.codedigest.com/Articles/ASPNET/284_New_Features_in_ASPNet_40-PART_1.aspx

http://www.codedigest.com/Articles/ASPNET/285_New_Features_in_ASPNet_40-PART_1.aspx

http://www.asp.net/LEARN/whitepapers/aspnet4/