Breaking Changes in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 was released by Microsoft yesterday (12^th April 2010). VS 2010 promises a lot of new features. More details of the new features are present in the following articles,

What's New in the .NET Framework 4

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171868(VS.100).aspx

What's New in Visual Studio 2010

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386063(VS.100).aspx

What's New in Visual C# 2010

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383815(v=VS.100).aspx

Security Changes in the .NET Framework 4

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233103(v=VS.100).aspx

A few of the features I liked very much are listed below. I am very sure that the list will grow in the coming days,

- Dynamic Language Runtime

- Monitoring CPU and memory usage of individual application domains by ETW tracing (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264810(v=VS.100).aspx)

- Background GC. (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee787088(v=VS.100).aspx)

- In-Process Side-By-Side Applications

- The new Chart control. (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd456632(VS.100).aspx)

- The new type, dynamic (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264736(v=VS.100).aspx)

- Extensible output caching (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s57a598e(v=VS.100).aspx#aspnet_core_services)

The walk-throughs are present at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd441784.aspx and samples are here https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9hsy596(v=VS.100).aspx

Welcome to the Visual Studio 2010 world!