February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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1.2. What Are .NET 4.0 and VS2010 All About?
VS2010 and .NET 4.0 lay the foundations for the next epoch of .NET development and correct a number of omissions. I consider that we can divide the changes into four main categories:
Efficiency
Maturation of existing technologies
Extensibility
Influence of current trends
Let's take a whirlwind tour of these now.
1.2.1. Efficiency
One of the first things you will notice in VS2010 is the shiny new integrated development environment (IDE) based on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The IDE contains some great features available previously only in add-on products such R# and Refactor (note that there is already a VS2010 version of R#). IDE highlights include box selection, snippets, class stub creation, ...