This post is a companion to a little article that I wrote for the UK MSDN Flash about Visual Studio 2010 with some resources to get you kick-started. It’s not meant to be definitive.
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The first thing I’d say is that you need to take a look at this area on Channel9 and subscribe to it;
and also check out the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework V4.0 week here;
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Visual-Studio-2010-and-the-NET-Framework-40-Week/
If you’re looking for a CTP to download then you need to look here – it’s in VPC form and it’s big so download over a weekend or something;
and there’s a preview of the VS 2010 Training Kit (demos, labs, presentations) which you can get from here;
If you’re looking at Visual Studio 2010 then here’s some places I’d go to;
- Watch Jason Zander’s keynote session at TechEd Europe
- Watch Scott Guthrie’s keynote at PDC
- Take a look at what’s coming for web developers with Jeff King at PDC
- Understand the new IDE customisation opportunities with Tim Wagner at PDC
If you want to understand the side-by-side story and features in the V4.0 CLR then;
- Check out the CLR Futures talk with Josh Goodman from PDC
- See where the type system is going with Andrew Whitechapel at PDC
If you want to check out what’s coming in the languages with Visual Studio 2010 then;
- Listen to Anders Hejlsberg talk about C# 4.0 at PDC
- Listen to Paul Vick talk about VB 10 at PDC
- Listen to Luca Bolognese talk about F# at PDC
- Take a look at C++ in VS2010 with Boris Jabes at PDC
If you want to know more about what’s coming in the .NET Framework 4.0;
- Parallel Programming
- WPF
- Watch the WPF Roadmap with Kevin Gjerstad at PDC
- Check out what’s coming in XAML 2009 with Rob Relyea at PDC (not strictly WPF specific but a lot of fun nonetheless :-))
- WF and WCF
- Take a look at Workflow Foundation 4.0 with Kenny Wolf at PDC
- Look at the new model for Workflow activities with Matt Winkler at PDC
- Look at how WCF and WF come together with Ed Pinto at PDC
- Web
- Watch the ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap with Scott Hunter at PDC
- Watch the ASP.NET AJAX Futures session with Bertrand Le Roy at PDC
- Take a look at distributed web caching with “Velocity” with Murali Krishnaprased at PDC
- Data
- See where Entity Framework is heading with Tim Mallalieu at PDC
- Check out how ADO.NET Data Services becomes online/offline with Pablo Castro at PDC
- Office
- Other
If you want to look at what Visual Studio Team System 2010 is bringing then;
- Watch Cameron Skinner take a Lap Around VSTS 2010 at PDC
- Walk through new VSTS 2010 features with Brian Harry at PDC
- Check out “Team Lab” with Ram Cherla at PDC
- Look at the new UML designers in VSTS Architecture Edition with Peter Provost at PDC
- Look at Agile development with VSTS 2010 with Sunder Raman at PDC
- Check out quality & diagnostics tooling with Habib Heydarian at PDC
If you’ve got through that little lot already you’re quite some way ahead of me.