(VERY GOOD BLOG from bethmassi)
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Everyone can download and play today!
Here it is folks, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 has been released to the public today. Check out the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 site to download the Beta, submit product feedback on the Beta 1 Forums, report bugs on Connect, and find additional information. Also visit the Beta 1 walkthroughs page for information on how to use the new features and download the Visual Studio 2010 Samples. There’s also some good language-focused resources on the Visual Basic 2010 and C# 2010 that are hanging off the Developer Centers.
Some of my favorite features include those around the WPF Designer and the Data Sources Window which now supports the same drag-drop RAD experience of Winforms in WPF applications:
- Walkthrough: Binding WPF Controls to an Entity Data Model
- Walkthrough: Binding WPF Controls to a Dataset
- Walkthrough: Binding WPF Controls to an ADO.NET Data Service
- Walkthrough: Displaying Related Data in a WPF Application
For Office solutions, check out the Advanced Office Solution Deployment topic in the library and the VSTO Team blog for some cool new Office client features:
- Walkthrough: Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer
- Walkthrough: Copying a Document to the End User Computer after a ClickOnce Installation
Take a look through the Visual Studio 2010 Product Highlights and What's New in Visual Studio 2010 for more info on other new features including multi-monitor – YUMMY! :-)
New Team Bloggers
I’d also like to introduce the “come-back” of the Visual Studio Data team blog. We’ve got a lot of new faces on the team that are building some amazing tools in Visual Studio to help you build business applications. They’ll be posting a lot of great VS 2010 content here.
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 resources:
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 site
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit
- Visual Studio 2010 Samples
- Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Walkthroughs
- WPF and Silverlight Designer Walkthroughs
- What's New in Visual Studio 2010
- Visual Studio 2010 Product Highlights
- Visual Basic 2010
- C# 2010
- VS 2010 Library
- Visual Studio 2010 on Channel 9
My recommended blogs on VS 2010:
- Visual Studio Data Team
- VSTO Team
- Visual Basic Team
- Jason Zander (executive blog)
- and Me ;-)
Enjoy!