Thursday, November 13, 2008

New Features in Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0

Visual Studio 2008 may be better than sliced bread, but the development team at Microsoft has already been working on the next release. They have recently given us Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 as a Community Technology Preview (CTP); it boasts several features that would appeal to developers.


This article won't go into every single feature, but will go into features that are the most relevant to .NET developers. Please note that because this is a CTP, it doesn't mean that the final release will be exactly as you see in the CTP or as is described here. I can go over the features roughly as follows:

New Features in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE and .NET Framework 4.0

- Call Hierarchy of methods
- A New Quick Search
- Multi-targeting more accurate
- Parallel Programming and Debugging
- XSLT Profiling and Debugging
- The XSD Designer

New ASP.NET features


- Static IDs for ASP.NET Controls
- The Chart control
- Web.config transformation

New VB.NET features

- Auto Implemented Properties for VB.NET
- Collection Initializers
- Implicit Line Continuations
- Statements in Lambda Expressions

New C# features

- Dynamic Types
- Optional parameters
- Named and Optional Arguments

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