Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0: Overview of Planned Features

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In this two-hour video, you'll get an extensive rundown of some of the features planned for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, courtesy of Scott Guthrie.

See https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/matthijs/Scott-Guthrie-Visual-Studio-2010-and-NET-Framework-40.

Highlights:

  • 002:20 Laundry list of cool things coming out in this release but won't be covered in depth in this presentation.
  • 006:15 New integrated development environment (IDE) for the 2010 release (for example, multiple monitor support, finding code references, and test-first/test-driven development).
  • 032:25 .NET versioning and multi-targeting support.
  • 039:15 ASP.NET 4.0 improvements.
  • 055:00 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) improvements.
  • 062:50 Web Platform Installer.
  • 066:05 JavaScript improvements.
  • 076:35 ASP.NET AJAX improvements.
  • 083:40 ADO.NET Entity Framework improvements.
  • 100:00 ASP.NET Dynamic Data support.
  • 100:40 ASP.NET Chart control.
  • 105:55 Web deployment improvements.