Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2010 final built around the globe at Tech Ed Days. Tech Ed India too launched VS2010. You can have a test Drive by downloading its Full Trial.

Visual studio 2010 Express is now available for windows phone for free from Microsoft. Now you can create Windows mobile applications as well 3D games for the phone with XNA Game Studios, Optimize your existing Silver light application for the phone and  enjoy Windows Azure services from within your phone .

Windows Phone Developer Tools includes:

• Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone

Visual Studio, World’s most popular development environment is about to go RTM in 2nd Week of April for it latest version Visual Studio 2010. It was initiated as early as 35 years ago when Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote a version of Basic for Altair 8080. And since then it has been released as Basic, QuickBasic, Visual Basic and finally Visual Basic. Net. Here is a timeline of this product covering measure releases in development of this Platform.

Microsoft Tech-Ed is back . Microsoft Tech-Ed India 2010 is the premier technology event of the year for IT professionals and developers. It’s the forum to learn, connect, explore, and evolve. It is being held from April 12 – 14 in Bangalore, and a continuously 4th Tech Ed India Event.

Visual Studio 2010 Reviewer’s Guide is a detail document highlighting the new features and capabilities of the Visual Studio 2010 product. 

Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate version for MSDN subscribers since 8th Feb 2010. However, general availability will be staring 10th Feb 2010.
Visual Studio 2010 is an integrated development environment that simplifies the entire software development lifecycle, from design to deployment.

A whole series of videos showing the Visual Studio Test tools in action has been posted here. These 22 videos cover everything from manual tests to automated testing to environment management. This great series of demo videos illustrate the new set of features available for testers as part of VS2010.

If you’re interested in the 2010 Test tools, but would like to get an overview and/or a better understanding of how to use them, this is a great place to start.

A set of documents and quick reference posters, supporting the basic guidance sheets.

Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance – Supporting Guidance.zip

Download Size : 6079K  Updated:  Jan 13 2010

"Getting Started Making Games with C# and XNA Game Studio" is a programming course for senior high school or undergraduate students with no prior programming experience. It is intended to engage students with the craft of programming by the creation of gameplay using the XNA game framework.

Whilst the students will learn how to create games, the course should really be regarded as one which teaches programming. All of the issues that are explored are also applicable in the wider scheme of software development.

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is out and has a great new User Interface. Also, this Beta has most of the features that would ship with the final version compared to the earlier Beta. Although few of the features may not be available and can be trimmed for the final build. The first thing you would notice and probably like, is the UI enhancements.  Here below, is the launch screen. It is no more a typical rectangular shape screen,the curve at bottom beautifies the VS 2010 start up..