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