Visual Studio 2010 RTM! New Resources, Samples, Videos, + more

Whooo hooooo! It’s been ~2 years in the making but Visual Studio 2010 has been released! This is my first full product cycle since I started Microsoft and oh what a ride! I’ve been watching live interviews from the Vegas launch event all day on Channel 9.

I’m really pumped about all the awesome resources that we’ve put together for you for launch and I’m looking forward to continuing to share my knowledge on how to build awesome business applications with Visual Studio 2010. It’s going to be a really fun year! Here are some of the plentiful resources to check out…

Developer Centers

We’ve updated MSDN with a variety of resources to help you get started learning all the new stuff that VS2010 has to offer. First off, we’ve been integrating Visual Studio 2010 content into the Developer Centers. Here you’ll find the most up-to-date samples, videos, articles and news:

Visual Studio Visual Basic Visual C# Office Development with Visual Studio (VSTO) SharePoint

.. more developer centers

For instance check out the new downloads and samples pages on Visual Basic and VSTO Dev Centers, and the new How Do I videos on Visual Basic, Visual Studio, and VSTO. The Dev Centers are your one-stop shop for all content like….

Product Downloads

Check out these links to download the FREE Visual Studio 2010 Express editions or Visual Studio 2010 Pro/Ultimate trial editions:

Visual Basic 2010 Express Visual C# 2010 Express Visual C++ 2010 Express Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Visual Studio 2010 Pro & Ultimate Trial Downloads

Samples

We’ve updated all these samples online for Visual Studio 2010’s release and have added a bunch more like:

Visual Basic 2010 Samples Visual C# 2010 Samples Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit

Parallel Processing: C# and Visual Basic SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Office Development in Visual Studio 2010 

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) WPF & Silverlight Data Binding in Visual Studio 2010

more samples

Articles

We also have a few MSDN Library technical articles published to get you started on some language, IDE and build features in VS as well as some notable MSDN Magazine articles on new features you can sink your teeth into.

Better Coding: Better Coding with Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace: Debugging Applications with IntelliTrace

What's New in Visual Basic 2010

Generic Co- and Contravariance in Visual Basic 2010 How to Build Visual Studio 2010 Office Development Projects with TFS Team Build 2010

How to Build SharePoint Projects with TFS Team Build

Using Visual Studio 2010 to Collect Usage, Performance and Stability Information to Improve Software

more MSDN articles

Videos

“How Do I” Videos
Check out the new quick training videos on Visual Studio, VB, C#, Office and SharePoint:

Visual Basic 2010 Language Features Series Visual C# 2010 Language Feature Series Visual Studio 2010 IDE Series SharePoint Development with Visual Studio 2010 Office Development with Visual Studio 2010 (VSTO) Dotfuscator Software Services in Visual Studio 2010

Channel 9 Videos
Watch these interviews and demos on Visual Studio and new features:

Launch Demo: Paul Yuknewicz: Windows Development with Visual Studio 2010

Launch Demo: Doug Seven: Code Understanding and Systems Design with Visual Studio 2010

Launch Demo: Sam Gazitt: SharePoint and Office Development with Visual Studio 2010 How We Do It: Building the Visual Studio Product Line No More Underscores in Visual Basic 10 Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010

more VS2010 on Channel 9, more of my interviews on Channel 9 (more coming soon!)

Blogs

Here are some of my favorite blogs that contain essential resources on Visual Studio 2010:

Visual Studio Platform Team Blog Visual Basic Team Blog Office Development with Visual Studio Team Blog Visual Studio Data Team Blog SharePoint Team Blog WPF & Silverlight Designer Team Blog Jason Zander

Check the Blogs, Dev Centers and Channel 9 for more content in the weeks to come, we’re still making updates and producing new content. Now that Visual Studio is launched, we’re just getting started here on MSDN! Have feedback and questions? Discuss Visual Studio and related technologies on the MSDN Forums.

I want to thank everyone in Visual Studio and DevDiv here at Microsoft and especially the BizApps team for a wonderful and exciting product! Visual Studio just keeps getting better and better.

Enjoy!