Celebrating Visual Studio 2010 RC

Visual Studio 2010 RC

Last two days i have been trying out with our latest Visual Studio 2010 RC and Team Foundation Server 2010 RC.

I got pretty happy with the performance of Visual Studio 2010 RC and Team Foundation Server 2010 RC.

I will explain it.

First of all i downloaded the VS2010 RC and TFC 2010 RC.

I have Visual Studio 2010 Beta-2 installed already. So it’s a usuall rule that, we should uninstall pre-beta’s of Visual studio 2010 to install a new version. Two versions of Visual Studio 2010 can be installed side by side. Which a natural fact, it’s not good running two builds of same software..

So when i got installing a pre-beta or CTP softwares. i already make sure that i uninstalled previous versions. So i went in and uninstalled my beta 2 associated softwares and entension softwares like TFS 2010 powertoyes and TeamForge. and ASP.NET MVC 2 tools for VS 2010, Entity Frameworks Beta for VS2010, Silverlight 4 beta tools for VS2010(since current silverlight 4 beta release is not compatible with VS2010RC) etc…

PS: Note that i would be refering Visual Studio 2010 RC as VS2010RC from now onwards in this post and my coming posts.

Today it has been released to public. You can go and download the Visual Studio 2010 RC from here.

RC Public Released Date – 2/10/2010 (Feb- 10th 2010)

Visual Studio 2010 – Release Candidate(RC) - Release Notes

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC

Visual Studio 2010 Premium RC

Visual Studio 2010 Professional RC

 Team Foundation Server 2010 RC

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit

February Release of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit

F# February 2010 CTP

F# is a productive, typed functional and object-oriented language for the .NET platform . This CTP release includes the F# compiler and tools, as well as optional Visual Studio 2008 integration for F# development.

Visualization & Modeling SDK RC

Domain Specific Languages (DSL Tools) and Architecture Tools SDK for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC. This SDK provides tools and templates for building Visual Studio Domain Specific Language designers for Visual Studio 2010 and extending UML and Layer designers and the architecture explorer. By using this SDK, you can build your own graphical or form-based designers for Visual Studio 2010.

That’s all about downloads. let me continue with what i am trying to tell.

After uninstalling all Beta components including  Team Foundation Server 2010 beta components. I restarted my system. Started installation, as usual system will restart system once after installing .NET Framework 4.0 RC, then setup continued with installation. After finishing installation setup asked me to restart again. Cool.

1.) i open up VS2010RC, it open up instantly. Beta-2 used to take 20-40 seconds in my system to open up, which is a performance issues i notified to Microsoft. This happens only for first time when we open VS2010Beta2 after reboot. Microsoft contact person contact me after i submitting my review, where i explained the problems i encountered in a sheet of questions on regard to my issue. Cool!!!.. Huhhh!!.. VS2010RC has solved this issue. It loads up pretty instantly.

2.) When i tried to open up a project which has few subprojects and so many files in it. It loaded all project files pretty quicker than it’s predecessor. I liked it, i loved the work microsoft has done on improving the things.

3.) Project creation is pretty fast now.

4.) Solution debugging i have seen lots of improvements in performance. quicker..

5.) I found Areas dialogue box has included in VS2010RC for ASP.NET MVC 2 projects. good.

6.)  When we close VS2010beta 2 it used to take few seconds to clean up resources used by it, but VS2010RC it closed instantly and resources are freed up.

7.) Cloud Computing – I have seen Azure tools for Visual Studio 2010 RC v 1.2, and pretty impressed by the performance while debugging and compiling applications.  But it still takes some time to loads up the Fabic development storage management UI in to the tray. i am sorry i forgot what we used to call it, while i was writing this article.

8.) I forgot to mention about the performance of VS2010RC User interface, pretty simple. Effects are pretty fast. loads fastly. toggling is faster. Welcome page itself is pretty cool. I love VS2010RC.

That’s all i remember for now. But i am sure VS2010 RC and Final Release will change our world of .NET development. Pretty simple elagant looks. Every one’s dream Visual Studio..

I have to take a break for now. So i am stopping for now. I will write more later, in free times.

Microsoft Welcomes your valuable suggestions/feedbacks to improve Visual studio 2010 RC,  so if you encounter any bugs and feels something is not right. Take your time and submit the feedbacks and take part of surveys.

Quoting to ScottGu (Scott Guthrie) , Vice President, Visual Studio Team, Microsoft on his blog

Our goal with releasing the public RC build today is to get a lot of eyes on the product helping to find and report the remaining bugs we need to fix.  If you do find an issue, please submit a bug report via the Visual Studio Connect site and also please send me an email directly (scottgu@microsoft.com) with details about it.  I can then route your email to someone to investigate and follow-up directly (which can help expedite the investigation).

If you do install and use the VS 2010 RC we’d also really appreciate if you would fill out this survey about your experiences.

Answers to a few questions and known issues

 

Here are a few answers to some questions/known issues:

• If you have previously installed VS 2010 Beta 2 on your computer you should use Add/Remove Programs (within Windows Control Panel) to remove VS 2010 Beta2 and .NET 4 Beta2 before installing the VS 2010 RC.  Note that VS 2010 RC can be installed on the same machine side-by-side with VS 2008 and VS 2005.
• Silverlight 3 projects are supported with today’s VS 2010 RC build – however Silverlight 4 projects are not yet supported.  We will be adding VS 2010 RC support for SL4 with the next public Silverlight 4 drop. If you are doing active Silverlight 4 development today we recommend staying with the VS10 Beta 2 build for now.
• We recently identified a crashing bug that can impact systems that have multi-touch and some screen-readers enabled.  We are working on a patch for people who are impacted by it.
• We recently found an issue where project upgrades from VS 2008 can take a long time to complete if the project has .xsd files within them.  If you think VS is taking a long time on a project upgrade give it a few more minutes to complete before assuming it has hung – you might be running into this slow upgrade issue.  Note that once the project is upgraded the performance should return to normal. We are working to fix this with the final release.

So bye for now. Happy learning.. Celebrate the release of VS2010RC..