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S. Somasegar, senior vice president, Microsoft Developer Division, announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010 and. NET Framework 4.
Visual Studio 2010 comes with new features to facilitate the development of applications including: New editor now uses Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Support for multiple monitors, Development SharePoint applications and the Web, Working with multiple versions. NET in a single environment, elimination of errors of "no-play" with IntelliTrace, etc. It also includes tools for developing applications targeted at the latest versions of Microsoft such as Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 and Windows Azure Phone.
For developers of Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 features support for multitouch features of the environment and the user interface "Ribbon" that provides quick access to libraries and code examples in MSDN.
As for. NET Framework 4 adds support for standards in the industry with more languages to choose from and the support for increased application performance to be average.
Microsoft hopes to reach one million developers across several launch events around the world (including Spain, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Brazil), while MSDN subscribers can download Visual Studio 2010 from today. Others can obtain the trial version or buy this development environment in any 4 flavors: Professional, Premium, Ultimate and Professional Test.
Additionally Silverlight 4 will be available this week and you can download an update for Visual Studio 2010.
Link: Availability of Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Announced
