After Visual Studio 2010 SP1, New Developer Tools

As you probably know , a service pack was recently released for Visual Studio 2010. After a while, additional tools began to appear, which are worth telling separately.

So, first of all, Scott Guthrie announced in his blog the availability of a new opportunity to quickly prepare the web developer's desktop. Two packages of VS 2010 SP1 WebPI Bundle and Visual Web Developer 2010 SP1 WebPI Bundle are available for unattended installation through the Web Platform Installer. These packages consist of the following components: VS 2010 or VWD 2010 SP1, ASP.NET MVC 3 (+ tools), IIS 7.5 Express, SQL Server Compact Edition 4.0 (+ tools), and Web Deployment 2.0. Using the Web Platform Installer, these components are automatically downloaded and installed so that you can get a customized web developer workstation in a few minutes.

Secondly, a new version of the Entity Framework has been released under the 4.1 index, which is an important ORM update since its release. The release candidate version is still available , but the final version will be released soon. Entity Framework 4.1 will offer developers all the innovations that were presented in the project Code First. Regarding the release of EF 4.1, special materials were prepared for training on MSDN.

Thirdly, a localization package is available for download for Visual Studio 2010 F #. This package allows you to localize error messages and some other text data of the integrated F # language tools into various languages. The same package is released for Report Viewer 2010 components .

Fourth, ( and this is the most interesting ), a new March version of the integrated training package Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 Training Kit is available . With this package you can explore the full range of technologies included. NET and Visual Studio 2010. Here are just a few examples of the technologies under consideration: C #, F #, WCF, ASP.NET, Silverlight, MEF and others. The training package contains 50 laboratory works, 22 demonstration projects, 16 presentations and 12 videos. The main difference of the March version is the new laboratory for studying Silverilght 4 and the new materials for Windows Azure.