The first service pack for Visual Studio 2010 was released in March 2011.
Prior to Windows Phone 7, Visual Studio 2010 no longer supports development for Windows Mobile. Dynamic support, which included links to help products depending on what the creator was doing at the time, was removed from the final release but it can be reinstalled using a Microsoft update. The Help System doesn’t use Microsoft Document Explorer and is no longer based on Microsoft Help 2. The MSDN Library viewer has been replaced by a new Help System in Visual Studio 2010. Intel and Microsoft have teamed upto support a new Concurrency Runtime in Visual Studio 2010 and Intel has released Parallel Studio as a Visual Studio add-on with parallelism support. Thread wait times and thread migrations through processor cores can be visualized using tools for profiling parallel applications. Parallel Tasks and their runtime stacks can now be visualized using the new software. NET Framework and the Parallel Patterns Library for native code, which make parallel programming easier. Visual Studio 2010 provides tools for debugging parallel programmes, In addition to the Parallel Extensions for the. It includes an interactive designer and integrated support for designing Microsoft Silverlight applications. In addition to Microsoft SQL Server, it supports IBM DB2 and Oracle databases. NET Framework 4 which can be used to build applications for Windows 7.
The IDE shell has been rewritten in WPF, while the internals have been revamped in Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), which provides more extensibility points than previous versions of the IDE, which allowed add-ins to change the IDE’s conduct. Multiple document windows and floating tool windows are better supported in the new IDE, as well as multi-monitor support. Microsoft claims that the redesigned Visual Studio 2010 IDE clears the UI organization and “ reduces clutter and complexity”. Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2010, codenamed Dev10 and.
It accepts plug-ins that add functionality at almost any level, such as support for source control systems and new toolsets for domain-specific languages, such as editors and visual designers or toolsets for other aspects of the software development lifecycle.
A code profiler a designer for creating GUI applications, a web designer a class designer and a database schema designer are among the other built-in tools. The integrated debugger can be used as both a source-level and a machine-level debugger. Visual Studio comes with a code editor that supports IntelliSense (code completion) and code refactoring.