Visual Studio LightSwitch is the simplest way to build business applications for the cloud and the desktop.
LightSwitch provides a variety of pre-built templates and tools to quickly build business applications that target Windows Client or Windows Azure. LightSwitch creates Silverlight applications that can run in the browser, out-of-the-browser, or in the cloud. You can also use Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Premium or Ultimate to extend and customize your application even further.
The first beta of LightSwitch will be publicly available on August 23.
LightSwitch Homepage
Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch
Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 is a free process template for Team Foundation Server 2010. Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for project management and agile software development. A process template is a collection of files that define the various process elements of a team project on a Team Foundation Server. Included in a process template are definitions for your teams work items, work item queries, builds, reports, and SharePoint portal. Each of these artifacts help you manage the work for your software project, track and report on important trends, and ultimately drive toward releasing high quality software on time.
Visual Studio Scrum
Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools is a set of free extensions to Visual Studio Professional which improves developer productivity. Microsoft has shipped an update, which adds some new features and enhancements.
If you already have the Power Tools installed, you can update it as follows:
- Run Visual Studio.
- Select Tools > Extension Manager menu command. The Extension Manager window will appear.
- Click the Updates tab. This will show any updates available for the extensions you have already installed.
- Click the Update button for the Productivity Power Tools extension. This will download and install the update.
Download and Install Power Tools
Summary of New Features
Attempting to cut or copy text in Visual Studio 2010 may cause the following error: “Insufficient available memory to meet the expected demands of an operation at this time, possibly due to virtual address space fragmentation. Please try again later.”
To fix this issue, download this patch. Check out this article for more information.
Some developers have been frustrated for years with the behavior of tabs in Visual Studio. Changes in how tabs work in Visual Studio 2010 have alleviated some of this frustration, but some developers are unhappy with the changes.
Radames Cruz Moreno, a developer on the Visual Studio Platform Team, has created a FREE Visual Studio extension that provides configurable behavior for document tabs. It is available in the Visual Studio Gallery as part of the Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools.
Key features include:
- Scrollable, vertical and pinned tabs
- Show close button in tab or tab well
- Sort tabs by project or alphabetically
- Color tabs according to project or regular expressions
- Modify dirty indicator style
- Modify minimum and maximum tab size
Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools
Document Well 2010 Plus Features
Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools is a set of free extensions to Visual Studio Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity. This is a Microsoft-supported release, shipping on the Visual Studio Gallery. It is a package of extremely powerful Code Editor extensions, including a number of very commonly requested features.
Download Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools
New Features Explained
Devcurry has posted a collection of .NET Framework and Visual Studio posters including keyboard shortcut, namespace and type posters.
.NET and Visual Studio Poster Collection
Tabs Studio is a Visual Studio commercial add-in that replaces the built-in Visual Studio tabs and makes all document tabs visible in multiple rows of tabs. Tabs Studio automatically organizes tab placement using tab groups and gives you complete control of tab presentation with XAML styles and custom add-ins.
Tab Studio v2.0 is now available with full support for Visual Studio 2010.
Tabs Studio Homepage
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including C# 4, Visual Basic 10, F#, WCF, WPF, Windows Workflow, ASP.NET 4 and Windows 7.
Download the Training Kit
Microsoft is releasing Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, and Silverlight 4 at the Visual Studio Developer Conference in Las Vegas. VS 2010 and .NET 4 are available today, and Silverlight 4 will be available to download later this week.
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