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.