Introduction

Visual Studio 2010 builds on the .NET development experience that has evolved through prior editions of the product. Those editions brought us code snippets, custom project templates, refactoring, data binding wizards, smart tags, modeling tools, automated testing tools, and project and task management. The related Framework releases included Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for building richer client solutions, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to help build more dynamic service-oriented solutions, and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) to enable structured programming around business processes.

Visual Studio 2010 adds to the innovations. It includes a new, WPF-based code editor, support for cloud development on Azure, IDE ...

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