Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you’ll know that Visual Studio 2010 was officially released today.
I’ve been running the RC version and was keen to download and install the release version and really getting busy with the new features.
Scott Guthrie posted an excellent post on his blog listing the new features in VS 2010 and .NET 4. If your not an MSDN Subscriber I recommend downloading the Express edition here.
A few of my favourite features are:
- new IDE look and feel. I especially like the code optimised view. I’m a big fan of seeing as much code as possible. I do very little work in design view with web forms so it works well and is great for MVC projects as well.
- Multi monitor support. I don’t have multi monitors yet as I have a laptop and I output that to a 24” LCD. When it’s time to move on from the laptop I think I’ll go back to a desktop with dual monitors
- HTML and Javascript snippet support. Try typing “<a” (without the quotes) and tabbing twice. You’ll get “<a href="#">content</a>” prefilled for you with the cursor after the # ready to type. Also try “<act” in an MVC app to get “<%= Html.ActionLink("linktext", "actionname") %>”
- MVC 2.0. Some fantastic enhancements over MVC 1.0
- Automatic HTML encoding using the <%: %> syntax.
- Clean web.config files.
The IDE looks clean and tidy with a new default font and great code colouring
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