Cloud Development

With Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio, developers can build, debug and deploy services and applications for Azure, the new cloud environment Microsoft announced in October 2008.

Web Development

In Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft is continuing their investment in great web development tools. Visual Studio 2010 enhancements for web developers include:

·         A high-performance and standards-compliant JavaScript, IntelliSense^® engine

·         ‘One Click Deployment’ for quickly and easily publishing a website’s files and configuration settings from the development machines to the final deployed site

·         Full support for Silverlight for developers wishing to build cutting-edge, rich internet applications.

Democratising Application Lifecycle Management

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 will deliver new capabilities that embrace the needs of the users in the lifecycle – from architects to developers, from project managers to testers. Among the great new functionality in Visual Studio Team System 2010:

·         Discover and identify existing code assets and architecture with the new Architecture Explorer

·         Design and share multiple diagram types, including use case, activity and sequence diagrams

·         Improve testing efforts with tooling for better documentation of test scenarios and more thorough collection of test data

·         Easily identify and run only the tests affected by a code change with the new Test Impact View

·         Enhanced version control capabilities including gated check-in, branch visualisation and build workflow.

Inspiring Developer Delight

Since the first release of Visual Studio, Microsoft has made application development more productive, efficient, flexible and profitable to the developers and companies that use it. Visual Studio 2010 continues to deliver on the core developer experience by significantly improving the day-to-day process for development teams:

·         Understand existing (and write new) code

·         Intuitive web development from the back-end to the end result

·         Wrangle disparate C++ code into one arena

·         Build new Windows 7 applications or upgrade existing applications

·         Enable Office tools to make your solutions more flexible and productive for specific needs.

Resource –

http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/0/9/C0965791-049B-4200-9008-F07A783026F6/VisualStudio2010_ProductOverview.pdf