Originally scheduled for March 22, 2010, and delayed some weeks to solve performance problems, the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and framework. Net 4 finally held today in the world. The announcement will be made at the conference Microsoft Visual Studio Launch Conference and Expo held in Las Vegas from April 12 to 14 in the presence of Bob Muglia, president of the Server and Tools Business, and Scott Guthrie, Vice-President division. NET Developer Platform.

Visual Studio is a strategic product for Microsoft, since it allows the publisher through the developers to spread its current and future technologies:. NET, Silverlight, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, SharePoint, SQL Server, Azure. .. Among the major innovations of this version, we expect better support parallelism, a lifecycle management improved, UML support, technology Azure …

The IDE has been rewritten to exploit the technology vector WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). The vector display code will instantly zoom in and zoom out a simple rolling wheel mouse. The IDE also uses multiple screens: for example a screen for the code, one for the interface designer, a final structure for the database.

With Visual Studio 2010 (VS 2010), the Windows developer and / or. Net will open up new horizons, new developments. First, FDI is ideal for creating the best applications for Windows 7! It helps to develop native applications (C + +) Windows 7, or managed code (. Net) while taking advantage of all the new system: multitouch, Direct Access, the new Windows SDK, tape, etc.. It is also the opportunity to WinForms applications to WPF applications.

The other novelty is always finer integration between Visual Studio and all Office 2010 software. Microsoft provides a considerable effort to simplify SharePoint development in VS 2010. Thus, designing a SharePoint project is no longer a chore. To do this, Visual Studio now has specific tools, project templates, a server browser for sites and content specific to such a project … The developer can also create applications quickly Sharepoint, aggregate business data, integrate data from different sources (SQL Server, SAP, Siebel …).

We can also package it and deploy a project from Visual Studio 2010 Sharepoint 2010. The latter is also continuing to improve the development of Office applications. With the upcoming release of Office 2010, VS 2010 has a brand new version of Visual Studio Tools for Office Tools. It becomes possible to develop 32 and 64 bit, create deployment packages, enjoy the new interface of Office (Tape, Linq …).

Visual Studio 2010 highlights the parallelism both in the environment in the development libraries. Everything is done to help the developer by limiting the code changes. Side bookstores, it has PLINQ, Parallel Fx or the Task Parallel Library. But to fully exploit the parallelization, Microsoft has incorporated a new internal runtime: the Concurrency Runtime, which must manage tasks and resources.

Beyond these libraries and APIs for C + + and. Net, the developer has also in VS 2010 debugging tools and parallel analysis. With VS 2010, it’s now or never seriously begin to parallel programming!

Microsoft offers its own vision of cloud with Windows Azure. VS 2010 and became the center of excellence by developing an application Azure. It has templates Azure and Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio. They create, debug and deploy services and applications on the cloud platform Microsoft.

Again, everything is done to integrate cloud computing in its development, while facilitating the construction and deployment. The developer has access to all services Azure: draft Dallas for the aggregation of data, SQL Azure (database in the cloud), Azure Storage. Net Services. Most importantly, the developer will receive with the purchase of a VS 2010 many hours of use Windows Azure. Ideal for testing and understanding the Cloud Computing!

Hailed by the profession of software testing, Visual Studio 2010 is catching up and displays a level of functionality equivalent to its competitors HP and IBM. He now has a credible solution to planning and executing test plans. Francis Darphin, French National Testing Practice Manager at Sogeti, comments on arrival of Microsoft in lce subject: ” Visual Studio 2010 has very good tools for tracking for agile development and the collaborative. It provides a comprehensive reporting. It is a very new but already impressive. A giant step for Microsoft ! ”

“If there is one area where. Net has really fallen behind compared to Java, it is that the object-relational mapping (ORM, Object-Relational Mapping) . This programming technique, which maps the world of object-oriented languages and that of relational databases, is the support of many developments of enterprise applications. If the tools in the Java world are legion (Hibernate, JDO, Toplink …), as. Net was scarcely as Linq to SQL. With the framework. NET Entity Framework 4 4 arrives, a true ORM Hibernate able to compete. Entity Framework 4 is inserted in the heart of Visual Studio 2010 and. NET framework. ” says Sami Jaber, founder of the DNG Consulting, host Dotnetguru.org. Entity Data Model Designer (EDM) allows the visualization of design data model and generation of mapping.

Visual Studio 2010 is available for download in trial Ultimate and Professional. MSDN Subscribers can also download different versions corresponding to their membership.