February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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2.1. General Improvements
VS2010 contains some long-awaited changes, including the following:
There is now support for multiple monitors and the ability to drag windows outside the IDE (see Figure 2-1).
IntelliSense is now two to five times quicker than previous versions.
Readability of text is improved.
Figure 2.1. VS2010 allows you to drag windows outside the IDE.
2.1.1. Improved Multitargeting Support
When a new version of Visual Studio/.NET is released, it can take time to upgrade and test existing applications. This can prevent you from taking advantage of features such as IDE enhancements if you are not ready to upgrade your application ...