Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Chapter 1. A Quick Tour of Visual Studio 2010

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The Visual Studio Product Line 6

• Languages, Frameworks, and Application Templates 14

• Developing Rich(er) Clients 19

• Creating Web Clients 26

• Making the Client Choice 33

• Coding for the Cloud 35

• Working with Data 37

• Write Connected, Service-Oriented Solutions 42

Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 introduce many new features to an already full-featured toolset. This latest version is about increasing developer productivity while providing developers with choices and flexibility when building their solutions. If you’ve been developing for a long time, you’ve come to expect that a new release of the IDE comes with advanced programming models, more acronyms, a ...