Back in June 2010 at the SarasotaDev.net group that I run, we held our Visual Studio 2010 Community Launch event. Here was our agenda:
- VB 10 Language and IDE New Features – Yang Xiao, Visual Studio VB IDE Team
- C# 4 Language and IDE New Features – Kirill Osenkov, Visual Studio C# IDE Team
- Doing What You Know and Going Beyond with VS 2010 – Stan Schultes, Microsoft MVP
- Developing Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight 4 Apps with VS 2010 – Kevin Wolf, Microsoft MVP
I made a list of Visual Studio 2010 resource links that I thought I’d share – these cover a lot of territory! Thanks to Beth Massi for links and inspiration for this list.
MSDN Content
Visual Studio Developer Center (main MSDN links page): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx
Visual Studio Express Dev Center (free VS downloads): http://www.microsoft.com/express/
VB Developer Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/default.aspx
C# Developer Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/default.aspx
C++ Developer Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/default.aspx
F# Develop Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/fsharp/default.aspx
VSTO Developer Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsto/default.aspx
SharePoint Developer Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx
Code Downloads
CodePlex – Project Hosting for Open Source Software: http://www.codeplex.com/
MSDN Code Gallery – primarily Microsoft content: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/
- use VS 2010 Extension Manager to browse the Code Gallery directly
Visual Basic 2010 Samples: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vb2010samples
Visual C# 2010 Samples: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/cs2010samples
F# 2010 Samples: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/fsharpsamples
VS 2010 Languages and Technologies Samples: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dd238515.aspx
Parallel Programming Samples: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ParExtSamples
SharePoint Samples: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SharePointDev2010
Office Development Samples: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/OfficeDevFuture
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Samples: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpfsamples
Databinding Samples (WPF and Silverlight): http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WPFDatabinding
Visual Studio Content
VS2010 product page: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/
Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en
Visual Studio Topic Area on Channel 9 – online training courses: http://channel9.msdn.com/Learn/Courses/VS2010/
VS 2010 Walkthroughs on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd441784.aspx
VS 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=47305CF4-2BEA-43C0-91CD-1B853602DCC5&displaylang=en
VS 2010 Resource Kit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5688c9ba-5071-4d9d-8794-c164f21a058c
VS 2010 Resources Page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd831853.aspx
VS 2010 RC – Virtual Machines and Hands On Labs: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2010/03/18/now-available-visual-studio-2010-release-candidate-virtual-machines-with-sample-data-and-hands-on-labs.aspx
VS 2010 Feature Packs (released at TechEd 2010): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ff655021.aspx?ppud=4
VS 2010 Pro Power Tools (released at TechEd 2010): http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef
Visual Studio Tip of the Day (Zain Naboulsi): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/tags/vs2010/tips+and+tricks/default.aspx
Keyboard shortcut posters for VB, C#, F#, and C++: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=92CED922-D505-457A-8C9C-84036160639F&displaylang=en
.NET Framework 4.0 Poster (namespaces) PDF: http://tinyurl.com/PDC2008-NETFX4PDF and DeepZoom version: http://tinyurl.com/DotNetFramework4PosterDeepZoom
Visual Studio Color Theme Editor (Microsoft): http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/20cd93a2-c435-4d00-a797-499f16402378
Visual Studio Color Schemes (community site): http://studiostyles.info/
External Tools / Add-ins
DevXpress – CodeRush Xpress for VB and C# (free): http://devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/CodeRushX/
JetBrains – ReSharper (trial): http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/EA4AC039-1B5C-4D11-804E-9BEDE2E63ECF
Blogs
Visual Studio Team: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/
Visual Basic Team: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/
Office Dev with Visual Studio: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsto/
Visual Studio Data Team: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsdata/
SharePoint Team: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/
WPF & Silverlight Designer Team: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpfsldesigner/
Somasegar: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/
Scott Guthrie: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/
Jason Zander: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/
Beth Massi: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/