Visual Studio 2010 will ship on April 12th. We will be celebrating this HUGE release with a number of LIVE launch events taking place around the US as well as the World. The theme for this launch event is “Life Runs on Code”. We will have sessions covering Application Lifecycle Management, SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 development, Windows, Web as well as the recently announced Windows Phone 7 development all with Visual Studio 2010.
One of the first launch events will be taking place in Chicago on April 29th. I will be presenting the Web and Windows Phone 7 sessions in Chicago. We hope to see you there!
What: Visual Studio 2010 Launch (Chicago)
Where: Chicago Marriott Oak Brook, 1401 W. 22nd Street, Oak Brook, IL (map)
When: Thursday, April 29th, 2010
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These events are happening all over the US, for other cities, visit the Launch site. We are also hosting a number of smaller launch events. You can find a city near you by visiting MSDN Events.
The release of Visual Studio 2010 is right around the corner. For several months, developers have been plugging away at the Beta bits and we have received valuable feedback. Based upon that feedback, the Visual Studio team has decided to push out a Release Candidate (RC) that is now available for you to download.
Jason Zander provides some additional details regarding the RC…
We got a lot of invaluable feedback on Beta 2 through Connect as well as your survey responses. In particular many of you pointed out areas of performance where we were not at parity with VS2008 and it was impacting your ability to adopt the product. Some of those areas of feedback included general UI responsiveness (including painting, menus, remote desktop and VMs), editing (typing, scrolling, and Intelisense), designers (Silverlight and WPF in particular), improved memory usage, debugging (stepping, managed / native interop), build times, and solution/project load.
You can now download the Visual Studio Release Candidate and continue to provide your valuable feedback.
Scott Guthrie is taking it one step further by inviting you to submit your feedback to the Visual Studio Connect website, but also sending him an email directly:
Our goal with releasing the public RC build today is to get a lot of eyes on the product helping to find and report the remaining bugs we need to fix. If you do find an issue, please submit a bug report via the Visual Studio Connect site and also please send me an email directly (scottgu@microsoft.com) with details about it. I can then route your email to someone to investigate and follow-up directly (which can help expedite the investigation).
The team is also looking for feedback regarding the install experience as well.
Visual Studio 2010 is a MAJOR release. A number of items (based on customer feedback) has been ripped and replaced with leading-edge technologies. All of this effort to gain customer feedback is to make sure we’re ALL (Microsoft and the community of developers and users) is happy with this release. We all want a tool that is going to help us succeed in what we do – write software!
Go download the bits now!
Ram Cherala, Principal Program Manager in the Visual Studio Test Tools Business, will be visiting the Midwest District to provide a deeper dive into the innovative new capabilities being introduced in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Visual Studio Test Elements and Test and Lab Management products.
These sessions are targeted toward Developers, Architects, and Quality Assurance teams. Attendees will be given the unique opportunity to have a first glimpse into the products and interact directly with the Redmond team responsible for designing and delivering these products to the market. We will cover a broad range of important topics including Software Quality Assurance, historical debugging, manual test runner, test impact analysis and test lab management.
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Milwaukee
Monday, December 14, 2009
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N19 W24133 Riverwood Drive
Suite 150
Waukesha, WI 53188
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Chicago (Downers Grove)
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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Neudesic
377 E. Butterfield Road
Suite 440
Lombard, IL 60148
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Chicago
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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Microsoft Office
Aon Center Office
200 East Randolph Drive, Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60601
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Book raffle and Zune Give-a-way
One random attendee will be selected to receive a brand new Zune HD!
Agenda:
| 8:30am – 9:00am |
Introductions and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00am – 10:30am |
VS 2010 ALM Tools: Walkthrough of All New Features |
| 10:30am – 11:30am |
2010 MSDN and Licensing Updates |
| 11:30pm – 12:00pm |
Lunch (provided by Microsoft) |
| 12:00pm – 2:00pm |
Deep Dive and Demos of VS 2010 Quality Assurance Features (Coded UI Testing, Manual Test Runner, Lab Management, etc) |
| 2:00pm – 2:15pm |
Break |
| 2:15pm – 4:00pm |
Quality Assurance Tools: Migration and Integration Options |
| 4:00pm – 4:30pm |
Feedback, Book Raffle & Zune Giveaway |
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Today Soma announced the release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Fx 4 Beta 2. Soma also added a little nugget of information around the ship date of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 – March 22, 2010.
The Beta 2 bits are available today for MSDN Subscribers and general availability will be October 21st. It was also announced that Beta 2 comes with a “Go Live” license, which essentially states that Microsoft will provide a smooth upgrade path to the final release as well as provide support for the product.
Visual Studio 2010 is a huge undertaking. There are many enhancements not the least of which is a complete rewrite of the shell! There are also a number of improvements to the underlying .NET Framework to provide the means to build great applications on top of Windows 7. The first step for you is to download and install VS2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2. Brian Keller provides a nice walkthrough on how to download and install the necessary bits and get you up and running.
The next step is to download the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit and work your way through all of the great training content. In addition, I’d set aside some time to watch the series of 10-4 episodes on Channel9 and learn about all the new features in VS2010 and .NET 4.
From there, I’d ask that you report bugs and provide feedback on the Visual Studio Connect Site. With your feedback we can be sure that Visual Studio 2010 is the product that *you* demand on March 22, 2010.
Dave Bost is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft and co-host of the Thirsty Developer Podcast.
