Archive for September, 2009

VS2010 and .NET 4.0 – 10 Hours of Video Tutorials

Here is a bringing together of over 10 hours of video tutorials on VS 2010. The collection subsists of two video series. One video series is from the msdev.com website, and it is presented by Nancy Strickland. Nancy is a mentor at IT Mentors. The other series is from Learn Visual Studio, and it is presented by Bob Tabor. The Learn Visual Studio Series requires that you become a member in order to see those videos.

Please click on the following link to look at a library of videos: visual studio 2010 beta

The codename for Visual Studio 2010 is “Hawaii.” A CTP (Community Technology Preview) version was released in 2008 as a preinstalled virtual hard disk. In May 2009, the Visual Studio 2010Beta 1 was released as an installable version, unlike the previous CTP variation that was already installed as a virtual hard disk.

Be sure to click on the following link to see a list of videos: visual studio 2010 videos

The IDE for Visual Studio 2010 is supposed to abate the complexity and clutter by providing better support for:

    Multi-monitor support
  • Floating tool windows
  • Multiple document windows

The IDE has been rewritten in WPF and the internals have been redesigned using MEF (Managed Exensibility Framework). Creative additions to the programming languages include:

  • M – textual modelling language
  • F# (multi-paradigm programming language ML)
  • Quadrant (visual model designer)

Be sure to click on the following site to look at a catalog of videos: visual studio 2008 video tutorials

Visual Studio 2010 will come with variation 4.0 of the NET Framework and it will target developing applications for Windows 7. Silverlight is built into Visual Studio 2010 and there is improved support for parallel programming. Intellisense and search abilities have been much improved in the new version.

Be sure to click on this website to look at a related post: download visual studio net

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