Visual Studio 2010 CTP is available!

vsxteam — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:38:00 GMT

We unveiled a glimpse of the Visual Studio 2010 new features at the Professional Developer's Conference last week. If you were unable to attend, you can download the Visual Studio 2010 Customer Technology Preview from here. The CTP is quite big, it's 7 Gigabytes and includes Team Foundation Server features as well as Visual Studio 10 and the Visual Studio 10 SDK.

After installing the CTP, take a look at the Walkthrough document (How to use Visual Studio 2010 CTP.docx). The document contains the walkthroughs of the currently working features inside Visual Studio and will give you a first hand view of some of the new and exciting things in the next Visual Studio release.

In addition to the walk throughs, we've provided several samples for extending the new Editor. The Editor itself is built on top of the new Managed Extensibility Framework. We will continue providing more samples in the coming weeks to help you learn more about the new Editor and the extensibility points available.

The Visual Studio 2010 SDK is also buried in the documents folder under c:\Users\public\documents\CTPWalkthroughs\Visual Studio\SDK. It is a bare bones SDK mainly for supporting the Editor walkthroughs. We are still working on our plans for the Visual Studio 2010 SDK and have only shipped minimal pieces in the SDK. We will have a fully functional SDK at our next release.

When you first launch Visual Studio, the first thing you'll notice is our new Start Page. The start page is clean, not as cluttered as the old one, and provides a great starting point to create projects, load existing projects, launch the walkthrough, or send feedback. We've kept the RSS feeds but have toned it down and it appears as a rotating banner on the bottom of the start page.

In the coming weeks, we'll continue to blog more about Visual Studio 10 and the Visual Studio 10 SDK.

Stay tuned. :)

-Quan

VSX Talk at the PDC

vsxteam — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:04:00 GMT

I just got the session info for Tim Wagner's talk at the PDC next week. Tim is our development manager on the VS Platform team. We're all pretty excited about this talk and I promise you won't be disappointed by the content that will be presented.

Here's more information about his talk:

TL32 Microsoft Visual Studio: Customizing and Extending the Development Environment

Thursday 10/30 10:15 - 11:30 in 404A

The next version of Visual Studio moves beyond add-ins and packages to unleash powerful new ways to customize and extend the environment. Learn about the Visual Studio extension model-built on a common Microsoft .NET extensibility framework--that makes it easy to customize Visual Studio in new ways. See how to create extensions for the new code editor and project system, and hear how to build your own graphical designers and specialized development environments.

Here's Tim's Bio from the PDC site:

Dr. Wagner is a former Eclipse board member and lead of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform, now working with the Visual Studio platform team to enhance the Visual Studio product line with extensible technologies and to exploit WPF to create new user interaction scenarios. His interests include IDEs, compiler front ends, and the creation of extensible platforms and APIs.

Make sure you check out Tim's talk if you're at the PDC next week.

-Quan

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Visual Studio 2010 CTP is available!

VSX Talk at the PDC