Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Feb 9 11:29:51 CST 2010
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate is now available for MSDN subscribers (as of yesterday, Monday) and will be ready for general download as of tomorrow (Wednesday). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/vstudio/dd582936.aspx Lots of new features: SharePoint Development Silverlight and WPF Data Binding Core Coding Experience Native Development Parallel Computing Visual Studio Extensibility Office Development WF and WCF Windows Azure Tools Parallelism is one feature that very much interests me. Developers can write programs that will scale across multiple cores and processors... and that is in addition to multi-threaded, 64bit and native mode compiled applications. I was at a talk given by the founder of the company StrangeLoops (test your web site performance: http://www.strangeloopnetworks.com/products/buy/performance_report.aspx), out of Vancouver, Richard Campbell, who was in the employ of Microsoft to give a seminar on how to program Windows7 new desktop features, last week but he later wandered into the subject of parallelism... very interesting stuff for developing the server based web end. Jim