VS2010 Evaluations

Visual Studio 2010 is here!

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Be sure to download the trial for Visual Studio 2010.

Trials:

· Visual Studio 2010 Downloads

· VS Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 [Eclipse plug-in and cross-platform command-line client for Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server]

Virtual Machines:

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Virtual Machines with Sample Data and Hands-on-Labs:

· Visual Studio 2010 RC (Hyper-V)

· Visual Studio 2010 RC (Windows [7] Virtual PC)

· Visual Studio 2010 RC (Virtual PC 2007 SP1)

· Please see the blog post from Brian Keller for instructions for additional details.

Documentation

MSDN Product Documentation:

· Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management

· Visual Studio

Team Foundation Server 2010:

· Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio 2010

· Administration Guide for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server

Videos

VS2010 Launch:

This video series provides an overview of the key features of Visual Studio 2010, including new IDE features for modeling and understanding code, developer and test collaboration, team collaboration with Team Foundation Server, Project Management, and application development for Windows, Web, and SharePoint 2010.

· Improving Developer-Tester Collaboration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

· Team Foundation Server for Everyone

· Project Management with Visual Studio 2010

· Windows Development with Visual Studio 2010

· SharePoint and Office Development with Visual Studio 2010

The following are the videos from PDC 2009:

• Advanced Diagnostics, IntelliTrace™ and Test Automation
• Code Visualization, UML, and DSLs
• A Lap Around Microsoft Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010
• Automating "Done Done" in the Team Workflows with Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate and Team Foundation Server 2010
• Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management to the Build Setup Rescue

ALM & TechDays:

· TechDays 2010: A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management

· ALMday session 1 - New Application Lifecycle Management features of Visual Studio 2010

· ALMday session 2 - Software Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: Part 1, an Introduction

· ALMday session 4 - Software Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: Part 2, Making It Real

VS2010 demos for testing tools

Visual Studio Lab Management videos

Guidance/Whitepapers

· Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance

· Visual Studio TFS Branching Guide 2010

· TFS 2010 Upgrade Guidance

· TFS 2010 Requirements Management

· Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Virtualization Guidance

Learning Resources

· Learning Visual Studio

· How Do I Videos 2010

· Hands-on-Labs

· Training Kit

MSDN Magazine Articles

· Debugging Applications with IntelliTrace

· Performance Tuning with the Concurrency Visualizer in Visual Studio 2010

· Better Coding with Visual Studio 2010

· Entity Framework 4.0 and WCF Data Services 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010

· Developing and Deploying Windows Azure Apps in Visual Studio 2010

· Exploring New C++ and MFC Features in Visual Studio 2010