I was reading Tim’s post over here with the same title as this one where he was suggesting that Microsoft may be underselling Visual Studio 2010.

I suspect that the problem is that VS 2010 is huge and there’s a lot of material out there but some of it looks to be published in small fonts and isn’t perhaps as navigable or discoverable as it might be.

I thought I’d highlight a few resources around VS 2010.

In terms of What’s New in VS2010, there’s a decent MSDN topic here;

What’s New in Visual Studio 2010

which breaks things down into

• Languages
  • VB 10
  • C# 4
  • C++
  • F#
• .NET Framework
• Team System
• Editor
• Deployment
• Office Development
• Data Development
• SharePoint Development
• Concurrency Runtime ( i.e. C++ rather than Parallel )
• Extensions
• Start Page

I won’t break down all those topics but the .NET Framework one is worth breaking down although I’m not breaking it down in quite as detailed a fashion as the website does;

• .NET Framework V4.0
  • App Compat & Deployment incl Client Profile & in-process side-by-side .NET
• Parallel Extensions
• Security Model Changes
• Code Contracts
• Primary Interop Assembly embedding
• DLR
• Memory Mapped Files
• ASP.NET 4.0 and Dynamic Data
• WPF 4.0
• Managed Extensibility Framework
• ADO.NET Entity Framework V4
• ADO.NET Data Services
• WCF 4.0
• WF 4.0

Some of those areas see incremental changes (e.g. WCF) whilst others are brand new (e.g. MEF, Parallel) and others have huge changes (e.g. EF, WF).

Channel 9 has a VS 2010 and .NET Framework V4.0 training course which follows similar lines – click the picture to jump to it;

in that it’s broken down into;

• Overview
• Languages
• ASP.NET
• Data
• WCF and WF
• Parallel
• Application Lifecycle Management

and that’s downloadable;

and Channel 9 also has 39 episodes ( yes, 39 episodes! ) of the 10-4 Show which you can find up here ( click the picture );

on just about every topic under the sun. Those episodes have great viewing figures and I noticed that the videos that have been most popular are;

• Welcome to Visual Studio 2010 ( 600K viewings! )
• A couple of videos around “Downloading and Installing” ( ~200K viewings )
• Code Focused Features in Visual Studio 2010 ( ~190K viewings )

and I think it’s really interesting that the “code focused” video does so well because it lines up with a personal view that these kinds of topics appeal to the vast majority of developers.

There’s also, of course, a tonne of material from PDC09;

http://microsoftpdc.com/Videos

I daresay there’s a bunch more places that you could go to for information and if people suggest them, I’ll add them to this post.