Visual Studio 2010 (first look)..
I am sharing an interesting article that gives a first look at what is coming in Visual Studio
2010.
The complete article is available here.
I am pasting some points that I consider pretty relevant:
Overview
Microsoft is offering a first look at the next
version of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) and
platform, which will be named Visual
Studio 2010 and the .Net Framework 4.0. There's a lot promised in the new
release (expected to ship, duh, in 2010),
from improved software testing tools
to software engineering modeling
capabilities to integrated
development and database functions for the application lifecycle management
(ALM).
A key goal in VSTS 2010, says Microsoft,
is to help democratize ALM by
bringing all members of a development organization into the application
development lifecycle, and remove many of the existing barriers to integration.
For the IT manager or CIO, says Mendlen,
VSTS will give clarity and visibility into the state of the project throughout
the lifecycle, using Team Foundation Server-enabled dashboards customized for her role.
Agile Tools, Built-In
Visual Studio 2010 also will sport features
to integrate Agile methodologies into the
tech stack using
Team Foundation Server.
The result of right-clicking on a method in the VS
text editor, selecting "Generate
Sequence Diagram⬦". A UML 2.1.1 sequence diagram depicting the call
chain originating from the selected method.
In Visual Studio 2010, he says, tools will
help create a direct relationship between unit tests that must be run and the
code a developer is writing. This "must-do" testing feature, called test prioritization, will get the
developers to check their code against at least the highest-priority unit
tests.
So, new in Visual Studio 2010 will be a video-capture feature recording what's
going on as the QA professional tests the software.
This isn't only video capture. These tools
(which internally the VSTS team currently calls "Tivo for debugging"
but surely will have a marketing-approved name by release time) also record the
state of the application as the tester is testing it.
In other words, when
the QA person clicks "Create new bug," the video and rich debug log
become part of the record.
Merging
of Developer, DBA Roles
Microsoft is merging the database
professional edition.
As Microsoft sees it, the roles of the
database-centric developer and "regular" developer are less distinct
than they once were, so the company is merging its VSTS database and
development products. As of October 1, those who belong to the Microsoft
Developer Network (MSDN) and currently own Visual Studio Team System
2008 Development Edition or Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition
will receive for free the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition,
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition, Visual Studio 2005 Team System for Software Developers and
Visual Studio 2005 Team System for Database Professionals.