General availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 – Daniel Walzenbach highlights the release to the general public of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 with this post which contains links to the downloads for all editions (Shell, Ultimate, Premium, Professional, Express[C#, VB, C++, Web Dev]) along with the standalone framework download, an other related downloads. My experiences downloading last night were pretty good, with all the bits I grabbed downloading at a good rate.
77 Windows 7 Tips – Jas Dhaliwal gives you 77 things to try out with your newly installed Windows 7 gathered together from a number of sources
Interesting findings in the diff between .NET Fx v4 Beta1 and Beta2 – Patrick Smacchia points his NDepend tool at the Beta 1 and Beta 2 releases of the .NET Framework 4 and discusses the details of the changes that it identifies between the two, and it would seem that there are a lot of changes since beta 1
Searching and Navigating Code in VS 2010 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) – Scott Guthrie continues his VS2010 / .NET 4 series of posts with a look at some of the changes that have been made in Visual Studio 2010 to make moving about your code base easier. I actually saw Scott demonstrating these features at the Guathon event in Manchester last month, and they look like really good enhancements to the basic product
What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 2 – Justin Van Patten of the BCL Team highlights the significant new features of the Base Class Library with the Beta 2 release, looking at features such as complex numbers, Observable collections, new System.Environment features and a whole lot more
New Visual Studio 2010 Built-in C# Snippets Cheat Sheet – John Sheehan has produced a simple but effective ‘Cheat Sheet’ for the Visual Studio 2010 code snippets detailing what each of them is and how and where you can utilise them
Indexed Properties in C# 4.0 – Kirill Osenkov shows off one of the less well known features of C#4, the ability to use indexed properties created in other technologies as indexed properties without having to call the awkward get_Value and set_value functions. This should vastly improve writing COM Interop code
Visual Basic "HowDo I" Videos – The Visual Basic Team are producing two series of videos one focusing on the 2010 VB language features, and the other on using VB within the Visual Studio IDE
Duck Typing with Castle – Elton Stoneman highlights a useful library from David Meyer which allows you to achieve duck typing by way of clever use of the Castle Dynamic Proxy.
Some Smaller Features in the Latest Release of F# – Don Syme talks about a number of the smaller new features of the F# release available as a part of VS2010/.NET 4 and as a standalone for VS2008/.NET 3.5.
Extension Methods to Make Thread Safe WPF Programming Easier – Simon Knox shows how some simple Extension methods can take away a lot of the clutter required to correctly update a WPF UI when your application is multi-threaded. The same principle could also be used for WinForms apps.
Visual Studio Myths – busted wide open – Eric Nelson and the rest of the UK Developer Evangelist team share a Silverlight application which aims to dispell a number of common myths about the different versions of Visual Studio and peoples reluctance to upgrade