Haven’t been updating my blog for several months, due to tough commitments to my SharePoint communities and online projects which will be released soon, and because nothing significant happened.

In these days Microsoft released Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and there are a lot of things to mention. For these who missed the news and didn’t install it yet – go to MSDN and download Beta1 http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx

Visual Studio 2010 introduced several significant changes, for example the studio interface is build on the top of WPF, not the WinForms. Someone will find this attractive ,others, like me, might not be very inspired with such changes. I’ve seen the performance degrade in UI when you are using Visual Studio 2010 on slow PCs, which doesn’t have good video adapters.

There are new features in interface of in VS2010 like customized start up pages, multi-monitor support, windows remember their locations after being closed, extension manager for plugins and tools. See there info about new features http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/05/18/announcing-vs2010-net-framework-4-0-beta-1.aspx

C# language provided new features like dynamic objects and variant. More details in this link http://code.msdn.com/csharpfuture.

So, stay tunned and follow the #VS2010 hashtag in tweeter to get the latest updates http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23VS2010

Btw, Visual Studio 2010 uses Consolas 10 font by default, start using in in VS 2008 to be ready for new look :)

PS: Don’t forget about the Visual Studio 2010 Forums http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/visualstudioprerelease

Introduction

This guideline provides detailed overview of System.Web assembly and the new classes and methods in ASP.NET 4.0, which were released with Visual Studio 2010 Beta1.

Document is subject to change – we are trying to find detailed information about all new stuff and update description column. Send us your comments and suggestion via this online form.

Description

ASP.NET 4.0 introduces several changes to the web assemblies and also merges several dlls that existed in .NET 2.0 - 3.5 SP1. For example, new features from ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 System.Web.Abstractions.dll and and System.Web.Routing.dll are merged with System.Web.dll, under System.Web namespace.

Changes

Beta1 of ASP.NET 4.0 introduced 27 new classes/interfaces/enums and 22 modifications of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 functionality.

Take into account, that Beta1 doesn’t provide the complete list of the new features – they can add new stuff or remove existed one prior to the final release.

The latest document version is available there http://tinyurl.com/qr583j (PDF file)