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Visual Studio 2010 beta goes live


By David Worthington
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October 19, 2009 —  Microsoft has announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 with a "go live" license, and that it was consolidating the product line into three familiar offerings: Professional, Premium and Ultimate.

The go live license, made available today, lets developers create applications with Visual Studio 2010, and Microsoft will make it possible for customers to upgrade to the final version on March 22, 2010.

"We are sounding the alarm bell," said Dave Mendlen, senior director of developer marketing at Microsoft. "Everyone should be looking at it now." He said that beta 2 includes "significant improvements" to testing tools.

MSDN subscribers are eligible to download beta 2 today, and general availability will be on Wednesday. Microsoft also outlined its upgrade paths.

Visual Studio 2010 incorporates new ALM, architecture and testing tools that help developers automate testing, reproduce bugs, model software, collaborate, and adhere to requirements.

In addition, Microsoft includes .NET 4.0, which integrates aspects of Windows Communication Foundation with Windows Workflow Foundation. Microsoft has also included code-focused productivity.

Those productivity features include code search across any language; the ability to highlight all references to a symbol; call hierarchy to browse all callers and callees on a method; allowing the generation of code stubs for types, methods, properties and constructors; and displaying live build-error information in design-time for C#.

"Developers face demanding, complex and fast-paced environments today; this next wave of tools and technologies will help simplify the development process from design to deployment and will enable developers to use their existing skills and knowledge to build better software, faster,” said S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft.

Visual Studio 2008 Team System and 2008 Team Suite customers are eligible to upgrade to the Ultimate edition of Visual Studio 2010 for a US$3,841 renewal fee.

Those customers will also receive 750 hours of computing time on Windows Azure per month for eight months, as well as 40 hours of e-learning per year per subscriber.

There is a $2,299 renewal fee for customers that use Visual Studio 2008 Architect Edition, Database Edition, Developer Edition and Test Edition. Those customers should upgrade to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium.

Customers that use Visual Studio 2008 Professional can upgrade to Visual Studio 2010 Professional for $799.

"We are trying to lateral over the capabilities. The capabilities are the same," said Mendlen. Microsoft is making the packaging consistent with Office and Windows, he said.

Purchases include a one-year subscription to MSDN, which Microsoft has upgraded in sync with the launch of Visual Studio 2010.




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