Visual Studio 2009 is out, welcome VS2010
Some time ago, frustrated with my RSS reader being overrun by VS2008 beta announcements, I wrote a short post announcing the release of VS 2009 beta 1. And although there are some calls to re-brand the most recent service pack, I doubt we’ll see this version.
Instead we got Visual Studio 2010, with new features such as support for cloud computing, parallel extensions, ASP.NET MVC, etc.
Frankly, I’m not that excited.
Most of the features to be included in the upcoming version are already available to developers as additions to existing developing tools (although most are in CTP mode at the moment).
There ARE the new features of C# 4.0, but unlike the changes between 1.1 and 2.0, the most recent set of changes is “nice to have” at most.
What is more impressive (in my opinion) are the changes and improvements in the new Visual Studio Team System package, which had a lot of room for improvement even after the latest service pack, and especially the new and improved tester version.
Considering the release of VS2008, we’ll probably be able to see a stable version (beta 2) at the second half of the year 2009.
Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen and Eric Lippert discuss the new features of C# 4.0
Category: Programming, Visual Studio | Tags: Visual Studio 2009, VS2009, VS2010
December 27th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Just a small correction: ASP.NET MVC (which is awesome btw) isn’t coupled to VS2010. Infact a feature complete RC should be out any day now…
Although I wasn’t excited about C# 4.0 dynamic features at first, now I’m anxiously waiting for it.
It can open the door on many cool new implementations…
January 12th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Eran, a RC is not a full release. I understand Microsoft is promoting ASP.NET MVC as part of the features in VS2010.
The same thing happend with framework 3.0 - although it was available to VS2005 users, it was “officially” released in VS2008.
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