Microsoft has released the beta of the first Service Pack update for Visual Studio 2010. The update comes a week after Microsoft released Visual Basic tools for Windows Phone 7 development.
Microsoft has released a new beta version of the first Service Pack for its
Visual Studio 2010 tool set.
The download of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is available for
download
here on Dec.
9. The technology became available for Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN)
subscribers on Dec. 7.
According to
a
blog post by Jason Zander, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the
Visual Studio team, "Service Pack 1 (SP1) continues that momentum of
focusing on improving the developer experience by addressing some of the
most requested features like better help support, IntelliTrace
support for 64bit and SharePoint, and including Silverlight 4 Tools in the box."
Other new features include a new local Help Viewer, which is a simple client
application that reintroduces key productivity features, including a fully expandable
table of contents and a keyword index, Zander said.
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 also includes Unit Testing on .NET
3.5 (not just on .NET 4.0), IntelliTrace F5
for 64-bit and SharePoint projects; a new performance wizard for Silverlight;
and a VB Compiler runtime switch to enable Visual Basic developers to target
their applications and libraries at platforms where the full Visual Basic
Runtime has not traditionally been available, Zander said.
In
a
separate blog post, S. "Soma" Somasegar, senior vice president of
the Developer Division at Microsoft, said: "Since we launched Visual
Studio 2010 and .NET 4 on April 12
th
of this year, it has been exciting to see the extremely positive response to
the product. Within six months of the launch date, Visual Studio 2010 usage
surpassed all other previous versions of Visual Studio based on usage data
collected from customers who opted into sharing their usage data with us. This
is the fastest adoption of a new release of Visual Studio ever, and we are
seeing continued strength in the adoption of Visual Studio 2010."
Moreover, Somasegar said Microsoft has released a new Visual Studio Team
Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack Beta. "This
feature pack enables sharing project status and resource availability between
team members using TFS and Project Server,"
Somasegar said. "The feature pack beta's 'go-live' license allows
customers to deploy it in their production environments."
Zander
also noted that on Nov 29, Microsoft announced the final release of
Visual
Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools. This release enables
developers to submit their VB applications to the Windows Phone
Marketplace. Since the Community Technology Preview (CTP), Microsoft added
support for
French,
German,
Italian
and
Spanish.
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