Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
Hi Everyone!
Welcome to my first blog post on my own blog page. This finally gives me the opportunity to write a bit more and add a bit more imagery than I can do on just Twitter. Now that being said, let’s get to where this post is about 
Microsoft finally release the first Beta of Visual Studio 2010. Now I’m not a fulltime developer, but I enjoy to develop a thing or two every now and then. Besides that I really love to see what’s new in new versions.
So I downloaded the ISO-image from Microsoft’s MSDN and I started instaling it on my Windows 7 RC installation. The installation is no other than 2008 except the only difference is that it starts installing the Beta version of the .NET 4.0 Framework which I suppose should offer a bit more features than 3.5 did.
After the installation -and the inevitable reboot- I ran Visual Studio 2010 and configured the environment for Visual C# usage, simply because that’s the language I’ll be developing in 
The welcome screen which follows after the splash screen is a bit different than on previous Visual Studio installations. It now has a -customizable- welcome screen on the start page which has a tiny introductory text to welcome you to the Visual Studio Beta. I suppose there isn’t much to tell about this first beta yet, but Microsoft claims the Editor has improved greately.
It’s time to create a little project just to see what’s changed. The obvious change that .NET Framework 4.0 is now selectable to create your project in. The rest of the options aren’t really changed for what I’ve seen (remember: I’m no fulltime developer, and if you are one then you might disagree with the things I see or say).
I just leave all the settings to defaults, and press OK to create my new project called WindowsFormsApplication1.
Big changes, mostly in the design. It really looks nice if you ask me, but that’s not the most important feature. The feature I’m still anxious to try out is the dual-monitor function. That would mean that I could have all my components on one monitor and the other fullscreen code or design, or the other way around Whichever suits me. or you or anyone for that matter.
Anyway, I just wanted to give you a quick peek in Visual Studio 2010. I’m not sure if you thought it was really helpful or interesting, but I’m kind of enthousiastic about this new version and I’m going to play with it a little more
Keep you posted as much as I can.
Cheers,
Laurens
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