Microsoft Press has released a free book titled Moving To Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and is available to download now.This free e-book written by Patrice Pelland, Pascal Paré, and Ken Haines is an ultimate resource for developers who have switched to the latest version of Visual Studio.

According to the authors, “this 336 page book will help professional developers who are working with previous versions of Visual Studio and are looking to make the move to Visual Studio 2010 Professional. It covers the features of Visual Studio 2010 through a sample application & It will go through a lot of exciting new language features and new versions of the most technologies without focusing on the technologies themselves. It will instead put the emphasis on how you get to those new tools and features from Visual Studio 2010.

The book is available for free and if you want to read a book where the focus is on Visual Studio 2010 and on the reasons for moving to Visual Studio 2010, this is the perfect book for you.

Download : PDF :  e-book- PDF     XPS :  e-book –XPS

                          

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.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is an integrated environment that simplifies the basic tasks of creating, debugging and deploying applications. Unleash your creativity with powerful design surfaces and the ability to bring your designers and developer together to bring your vision to life. Work within a personalized environment, targeting a growing number of platforms, including Silverlight, SharePoint and Cloud applications and accelerate the coding process by using your existing skills. Integrated support for Test First Development and new debugging tools let you find and fix bugs quickly and easily to ensure high quality solutions.

Professional. Premium. Ultimate. Test Professional. Each edition of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 was built with the specific needs of individual developers and development teams in mind. Learn which edition is right for you.

The Full Trial Download is available in 5 Different Edition

Visual Studio 2010 Professional Trial : The essential tool for individuals performing basic development tasks. It simplifies the creation, debugging, and deployment of applications on a variety of platforms including SharePoint and the Cloud. Visual Studio 2010 Professional comes with integrated support for test-driven development, as well as debugging tools that help ensure high-quality solutions.

Download : Visual Studio 2010 Professional Trial 

Visual Studio 2010 Premium Trial : complete toolset that simplifies application development for individuals or teams, allowing the delivery of scalable, high-quality applications. Whether writing code, building databases, testing, or debugging, you can increase your productivity using powerful tools that work the way you work.

Download : Visual Studio 2010 Premium Trial 

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Trial comprehensive suite of application lifecycle management tools for teams to ensure quality results, from design to deployment. Whether you’re creating new solutions or enhancing existing applications, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate lets you bring your vision to life targeting an increasing number of platforms and technologies—including cloud and parallel computing.

Download : Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Trial

Visual Studio 2010 Test Professional Trial

A  specialized toolset for quality assurance teams that simplifies test planning and manual test execution. Test Professional works in conjunction with Visual Studio software for developers, enabling effective collaboration between developers and testers throughout the application development lifecycle.

Download : Visual Studio 2010 Test Professional Trial

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Trial

The collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft’s application lifecycle management solution that helps enable teams to reduce risk, streamline interactions and eliminate waste throughout the software delivery process.

Download : Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Trial

Visual Studio 2010 Express

A set of free tools which offers you an exciting experience with the new integrated development environment, a new editor built in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and support for the new .NET Framework 4

Download :  Visual Studio 2010 Express

All Visual Studio 2010 TRIAL editions free for 90 days. After 30 days, You may extends the trial an additional 60 days by registering the product to obtain a free key.

                          

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
• Windows Phone Emulator
• Silverlight for Windows Phone
• XNA Game Studio 4.0 CTP

Visual Studio integrated developer environment (IDE) handles from design to testing of Windows Phone 7 Series phone applications. You can test these phone applications using the Windows Phone Emulator.

More Info here : http://www.microsoft.com/express/Phone/

Download : Download

                          

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.

TIMELINE

Products and Milestones

1975 – Bill Gates and Paul Allen write a version of Basic for Altair 8080

1982 – IBM releases BASCOM 1.0 (developed by Microsoft)

1983 – Microsoft Basic Compiler System v5.35 for MS-DOS release

1984 – Microsoft Basic Compiler System v5.36 release

1985 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.0

1986 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.01, 1.02, 2.00

1987 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 2.01, 3.00, 4.00

1987 – Microsoft BASIC 6.0

1988 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.00, 4.00b, 4.50

1989 – Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.0

1990 – Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.1

1991 – Microsoft Visual Basic released May 20-Windows World Convention –Atlanta

1992 – Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0

1993 – Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 in Standard and Professional versions

1995 – Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 released, supported the new Windows 95

1997 – Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 – introduction of IntelliSense

1998 – Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 that included Visual Basic 6.0 released (first VS)

2002 – Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 7.0

2002 – Visual Studio .NET

2003 – Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 7.1

2003 – Microsoft Visual Studio w/Intellisense

2003 – Visual Studio .NET

2004 – Announce Visual Studios 2005 – Code name Whidbey

2005 – Visual Studio 2005 release w/Extensibility

2005 – Visual Studio Express released

2006 – Expression Tool Set released – devs and designers work together

2006 – Visual Studio Team release – November 30th

2007 – Visual Studio 2008 (code name Orcas) ships November = Video Studio Shell

2010 – Visual Studios (code name Rosario)

Found this on Channel9.

To know more about Visual Studio 2010 check here : Visual-studio-2010

                          

Tech-Ed is a must attend event for all IT-Pros, Developers and consumers too as it would give you an edge about today’s cutting-edge trends, thereby enhancing your work profile and getting ahead of the rest. But the most important benefit of all just might be the networking opportunity that the forum will provide you can build personal connections with Microsoft experts, Other experts in the industry and peers that will last far beyond this event and would be handy through out and after the event.

Also Visual Studio 2010 RTM is going to be launched at the Tech-Ed India 2010. Here you can learn about the latest version of this development platform from Product team as well as Product experts.

Register for Tech Ed India 2010 http://www.microsoftteched.in/register.aspx

More Details  here : http://www.microsoftteched.in/

                          

This reviewer’s guide is designed to give you an overview of the features available in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. It’s intended to give you an understanding of how professional developers can be more creative and more productive while building high-quality applications.
The guide begins with an example scenario to showcase the new product features in action, complete with screenshots of the solutions being built. It then covers each of the new features in greater detail. Throughout the document, we’ve included links to Web sites that offer deeper information about the technology.

This guide will be updated as information becomes available, and is subject to change. For the latest information about Visual Studio 2010, you may visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/.

Download Size: 32 MB

Download : VS2010 Reviewer’s Guide

                          

Previously Microsoft has released two beta of the same and now its RC. Expected to release in 2nd Week of April 2010 (RTM release), this RC release has no more new features included in the  from beta 2 but the main focus is on speed improvements. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, The RC release delivers enhanced performance and is an added milestone to garner even more customer feedback before the final build is released. Specifically, customers will see performance improvements in loading solutions, typing, building and debugging.

Homepage: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate

                          

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.

Download: VS2010 Demo for Testing Tools

                          

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

                          

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.

Presentations are provided as part of the learning materials. The presentations are grouped into a number of topic based parts with a practical session to underpin the taught content. Each presentation is interspersed with demonstrations and annotated with speaker notes, as well as content review sessions.

The material is intended to foster a dialogue between the presenter and the audience; in some places the presenter is given some discussion points to further this. There are also some "interactive development" sections where presenter and audience use what they have been taught so far to solve a particular problem. These attempts (and their occasional failure) lead to more detailed exposition of the material and hopefully remind those present that having things not work is actually part of thesoftware development experience.

Technologies

• .NET Framework
• Visual Studio
• C#
• XNA

More Details Here:Facultyresourcecenter

Download :Learn Programming with XNA and C#.zip (367.86 MB download)