Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4.0

This isn't exacty news, Viual Studio 2010 & .NET 4 is big news right now in the Microsoft development community.

On Tuesday, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 to the MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) and on Thursday 21st October, timed nicely to co-incide with Windows 7, it was released as a public beta.

Ok, so what is VS2010 and .NET 4?

Visual Studio is an application development environment that developers use to write programs for Microsoft Windows. Much like a writer uses Word and an artist uses Photoshop, when developing web sites or applications for Windows, many developers use Visual Studio.

.NET 4 is a little tricky to explain. Basically, it is a runtime framework, intended to allow programs access to libraries, functions and templates that belong to the underlying operating system, that can be used by the programmer to write and build an application, whether a web site or Windows software, that will work in Windows.

See, I said it would be tricky.

In layman's terms, the .NET framework is like all the gears and shafts and nuts and bolts that a mechanic puts together to make and engine that he then puts in a car.

.NET 4 is just the latest version of .NET.

How will this change the world?

In the short term it won't.

It'll mean that thousands of developers and managers (like myself) will be downloading, testing and evaluating these 2 tools to see if they are worthy and whether or not they allow us to make things better, stronger, faste. It is almost guaranteed that they will make our lives better.

For the user, it'l hopefully mean faster applications, richer, more usable applications and content, better security and most importantly less development time.

To read more about these releases, go to the official Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 website and see what you think.

 

Thanks for reading.

Posted on 22/10/2009 by Ed NIce

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