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[chconline]

Finally reached RTM this morning. I remoted it into my home server and downloaded it this morning on Dreamspark. Can't wait to try it out!

[redeemed]

Nice! Do you get that through being a student at U of C?

[shc-boomer]

Nice, time to get into the VS2010 groove.

[chconline]

Nice! Do you get that through being a student at U of C?

Go to Dreamspark -- all you'll need is a valid education verification. It's not on MSDNAA yet last time I checked. Installing it now though!

[shc-boomer]

Take some screenshots when you are on to using it.

[chconline]

Realistically I haven't even been using Visual Studio this term since I've been doing Assembly for school, and even back then I used <1% of its features haha. Just a random C++ file opened (No project) and the GUI changes look pretty nice from a really noob perspective. It seems to load a bit slower than its predecessor though.

[TL6MT]

From Wiki:

The Visual Studio 2010 IDE has been redesigned which, according to Microsoft, clears the UI organization and "reduces clutter and complexity."[70] The new IDE better supports multiple document windows and floating tool windows,[70] while offering better multi-monitor support. The IDE shell has been rewritten using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF),[71] whereas the internals have been redesigned using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that offers more extensibility points than previous versions of the IDE that enabled add-ins to modify the behavior of the IDE.[72] The new multi-paradigm programming language ML-variant F# is part of Visual Studio 2010;[73] as is M, the textual modeling language, and Quadrant, the visual model designer, which are a part of the Oslo initiative.[74]

Visual Studio 2010 comes with .NET Framework 4 and supports developing applications targeting Windows 7.[70] It supports IBM DB2 and Oracle databases (see IBM.com and TeamFuze.net for more information), in addition to Microsoft SQL Server.[70] It has integrated support for developing Microsoft Silverlight applications, including an interactive designer.[70] Visual Studio 2010 offers several tools to make parallel programming simpler: in addition to the Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework and the Parallel Patterns Library for native code, Visual Studio 2010 includes tools for debugging parallel applications. The new tools let parallel Tasks and their runtime stacks to be visualized.[75] Tools for profiling parallel applications can be used for visualization of thread wait times and thread migrations across processor cores.[76] Intel and Microsoft have jointly pledged support for a new Concurrency Runtime in Visual Studio 2010[77] and Intel has launched parallelism support in Parallel Studio as an add-on for Visual Studio.[78]

The Visual Studio 2010 code editor now highlights references; whenever a symbol is selected, all other usages of the symbol are highlighted.[79] It also offers a Quick Search feature to incrementally search across all symbols in C++, C# and VB.NET projects. Quick Search supports substring matches and camelCase searches.[79] The Call Hierarchy feature allows the developer to see all the methods that are called from a current method as well as the methods that call the current one.[79] IntelliSense in Visual Studio supports a consume-first mode, which can be opted-into by the developer. In this mode, IntelliSense will not auto-complete identifiers; this allows the developer to use undefined identifiers (like variable or method names) and define those later. Visual Studio 2010 can also help in this by automatically defining them, if it can infer their types from usage.[79]

[shc-boomer]

Thank you for the information TL6MT, I agree that new and improved GUI looks quite nice. Time to get it soon.

[chconline]

Yep, thanks for the post TL. Multi monitor enhanced support is probably one of the other features that I would actually get to use, haha. For noobs like me anyway.

[TL6MT]

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16832116414

Holy **** thats expensive.

[shc-boomer]

Thank goodness for being a student and getting this software for free.

[Big Bang]

Lucky students! Wtf is F#?

[Jyro]

Chconline I believe I was the one to open your eyes to using VS for writing programs

[chconline]

lol, yes you have. Never turned back. All my computers have Visual Studio now.

BTW, welcome to APH

[shc-boomer]

Welcome to APH, nice DP btw.

[JohnRocks]

Start page, code editor, and IntelliSense are well improved in Visual Studio 2010.