Here is a gathering of over 10 hours of video tutorials on VS 2010. The collection consists of two video series. One video series is from the msdev.com website, and it is presented by Nancy Strickland. Nancy is a teacher at IT Mentors. The other series is from Learn Visual Studio, and it is delivered by Bob Tabor. The Learn Visual Studio Series requires that you become a member in order to see those videos.

The codename for Visual Studio 2010 is “Hawaii.” A CTP (Community Technology Preview) variant was published in 2008 as a already installed virtual hard disk. In May 2009, the Visual Studio 2010Beta 1 was published as an installable variation, unlike the earlier CTP variation that was preinstalled as a virtual hard disk.

The IDE for VS 2010 is supposed to cut down the complexity and clutter by providing better support for:

  • Floating tool windows
  • Multiple document windows
  • Multi-monitor support

The IDE has been rewritten in WPF and the internals have been redesigned using MEF (Managed Exensibility Framework). New-fashioned additions to the programming languages include:

  • F# (multi-paradigm programming language ML)
  • M – textual modelling language
  • Quadrant (visual model designer)

VS 2010 will come with variant 4.0 of the NET Framework and it will target developing applications for Windows 7. Silverlight is integrated into VS 2010 and there is improved support for parallel programming. Search abilities and Intellisense have been much improved in the new version.