2.1. General Improvements

VS2010 contains some long-awaited changes, including the following:

  • There is now support for multiple monitors and the ability to drag windows outside the IDE (see Figure 2-1).

  • IntelliSense is now two to five times quicker than previous versions.

  • Readability of text is improved.

Figure 2.1. VS2010 allows you to drag windows outside the IDE.

2.1.1. Improved Multitargeting Support

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