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Microsoft released last June the first beta of the new version of Visual Studio, the Visual Studio 2010. The main interface of the VS 2010 is different from VS 2008 mainly because the VS 2010 is designed in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) while the 2008 version is designed in Windows Forms.

Here are the features of the new Visual Studio 2010:

Enhanced User Experience
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 delivers a modern, enhanced user experience that makes understanding the current context more natural.

• Clear UI Organization
• Reduced clutter and complexity
• Improved editor
• Better support for floating documents and windows
• Enhanced document targeting
• Focused animations for action feedback

Visual Studio 2010 - Main Interface

Visual Studio 2010 - Source Editor

Parallel Programming
Parallel programming is simplified, so both native- and managed-code developers can productively build innovative applications.

• IDE support for parallel programming
• Native C++ libraries that use lambda functions and align well with STL
• Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework offers support for imperative data and task parallelism, declarative data parallelism, and more
• Resource management of the multicore hardware and task scheduling enabled by Concurrency Runtime
• Parallel debugging windows and profiling views

Democratizing Application Lifecycle Management
Visual Studio Team System 2010 delivers new capabilities for everyone on a project, including architects, developers, project managers and testers.

• Discover existing code assets with the new Architecture Explorer
• Design and share multiple diagram types, including use case, activity and sequence diagrams
• Tooling for better documentation of test scenarios and more thorough collection of test data
• Run tests impacted by a code change with the new Test Impact View
• Gated check-in, branch visualization and build workflow allow for enhanced version control

Visual Studio 2010 - Architecture Explorer

Inspiring Developer Delight
Visual Studio has made application development more productive, efficient and flexible for both developers and companies. Visual Studio 2010 continues this legacy.

• Contextual support helps developers better understand existing code – and write new code more efficiently
• First class C++ development experience that helps developers navigate and understand complex C++ source bases
• Build new Windows® 7 applications or upgrade existing applications
• Enable Office tools to make your solutions more flexible and productive for specific needs

Web Development
With Visual Studio 2010, we’re continuing our investment in great Web development tools.

• A high-performance and standards-compliant JavaScript IntelliSense® engine
• “One Click Deployment” that quickly publishes files and configuration settings from development machines to the final deployed site
• Full support for Silverlight™ for cutting-edge, rich Internet applications

Visual Studio 2010 - Web Development

More Databases
With the Visual Studio partner ecosystem, developers will now be able to work with IBM DB2 and Oracle databases in addition to Microsoft SQL Server™ databases.

IBM has committed to develop, sell and support a Database Schema Provider (DSP) to let developers working with DB2 on the Windows, Linux or Unix platforms do offline design, development, testing and change management using Visual Studio Team System 2010 Development Edition.

Quest Software have made a similar commitment develop, sell and support a DSP which will enable Oracle Developers to work with their databases just as easily.

Download: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

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