Microsoft Unveils Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0

The next generation of the .NET Framework, C#, Visual Basic and Visual Studio are to be released in 2009.  New features include modeling tools integrated into the Visual Studio IDE, support for UML and Domain Specific Languages, improved testing tools, substantial improvements in collaboration capabilities, ability to link work items with code and models, and workflow-based builds.  There are also significant improvements in C# 4.0 including co-variance and contra-variance, named and optional parameters, dynamic variables and programming features, and improved COM Interoperability.

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jQuery Ships with Visual Studio

jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that has become one of the most popular libraries on the Web.  jQuery enables developers to efficiently find and manipulate HTML elements.  Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward.  Microsoft will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch.  Visual Studio will include jQuery Intellisense and help files.

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