C++ Development in VSTS 2010

Visual Studio 2010 marks a major renovation of our C++ IDE to not only support emerging trends like parallel computing, cloud and web services but also provide a first class C++ development experience through an IDE that scales to the large size of code bases that are typical of C++ sources. We’re also adding a significant focus on building great experiences for navigating and understanding complex C++ source bases to enable developers to figure out the best places to make source changes in their complex systems.
In Visual Studio 2010 the C++ project system has been converted to MSBuild based system that enables developers to take their existing C++ solutions that are currently sectioned to be manageable and bring them into a single solution that provides full IDE support for all the assets in the solution. With a full compiler backing IntelliSense and a true database based symbol system this enables developers to work with large solutions, thousands of files and up to 4GB of symbol information.
Visual Studio 2010 provides a C++ IDE experience that includes the return of the MFC Class Wizard, the ability to view large source files through Source Outline, integrated quick searching to find information without the confusion of the current “Find In Files” method and an easily extensible IDE model through the new Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF).

Web Development in VSTS 2010

With ASP.NET Microsoft delivered a ground breaking productive development model that made web applications accessible to the traditional application developer. Over the last few releases not only has the tooling in Visual Studio improved to provide developers with a more web standard set of tools but to provide leading features like CSS property grids and split view design surfaces.
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owever the industry evolves and so do the tool requirements and patterns that developers use. Web developers are leading the push to split content from data and to use a Test Driven Development (TDD) methodology. In Visual Studio 2010 we deliver the next generation of ASP.NET web tools that make it easy for developers to use TDD to build Model-View-Controller (MVC) based web sites.
Many ASP.NET Developers have already experienced the preview release of ASP.NET MVC and all the features in that release are included in Visual Studio 2010. Ranging from Project Templates and Solutions that natively describe an ASP.NET MVC website to automatic generation of test projects in the web solutions to wizard support for common tasks like creating views from controllers and snippet support for HTML Markup, the Visual Studio IDE delivers all the support required.
In Visual Studio 2008 we invested heavily in supporting JavaScript in the Visual Studio IDE and debugger. In Visual Studio 2010 we’re continuing that investment with a higher performance and standards compliant JavaScript IntelliSense engine. These investments enabled Microsoft to announce their involvement with the JQuery group and Visual Studio 2010 will be the first version of Visual Studio to ship JQuery as a native part of the ASP.NET solution set.
Deployment of websites has been a challenge for developers for many years and Visual Studio 2010 has full IDE support for a simplified deployment process for ASP.NET websites. Called “One Click Deployment”, this process and IDE support provides a wizard, dialogs and design surfaces that make it simple for developers to identify the components of a website that need to be deployed and handle the process of moving them from the development machine to the web server, whether that is an internal server for the organization or a server hosted by a 3rd party site.
“One Click Deployment” also solves the problem of changing the settings of a website from the development machines to the final deployed site. Many times developers have sent websites to deployment with debug tracing turned on or the database connections set to the development servers. With web.config transformations, “One Click Deployment” enables a developer to create a custom set of transforms that will be applied to the website every time it is deployed and ensures that the appropriate settings are in the configuration files.
Additionally Microsoft has just released the Silverlight 2 runtime and tooling for Visual Studio 2008. In Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight is fully supported for developers wishing to build Silverlight content. Having design surfaces for Silverlight enables developers to either author original content or to modify content as part of the designer-developer workflow that Visual Studio enabled in the last release. Visual Studio 2010 also provides full debugging support for Silverlight and provides project system integration for developers consuming this content in various applications types, for example web developers building ASP.NET websites will be able to include existing Silverlight content and Visual Studio will create the appropriate test pages and content includes to enable them to focus debugging on the Silverlight content in the context of the overall website solution.