Wow, Visual Studio 2010 is coming, here's list of the features:
1. Enhanced User Experience
- Clear UI Organization
- Reduced clutter and complexity
- Improved editor
- Better support for floating documents and windows
- Enhanced document targeting
- Focused animations for action feedback
2. SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010
- Customizing SharePoint with the help of new project and item templates.
- Creating Web parts and application pages using new visual designers.
- Designing association and initiation forms for your workflows.
- Aggregating and integrating back-end data into your application using Business Data Catalog (BDC) models.
- Importing existing solution packages (.wsp files) and then modifying and extending them.
- Customizing features and packages using new designers and explorers.
- Deploying and debugging SharePoint applications as easily as pressing F5.
- Navigating SharePoint sites using Server Explorer.
3. Democratizing Application Lifecycle Management
- Discover and identify existing code assets and architecture with the new Architecture Explorer
- Design and share multiple diagram types, including use case, activity and sequence diagrams
- Improve testing efforts with tooling for better documentation of test scenarios and more thorough collection of test data
- Easily identify and run only the tests impacted by a code change with the new Test Impact View
- Enhanced version control capabilities including gated check-in, branch visualization, and build workflow
4. Inspiring Developer Delight
- Understand existing (and write new) code
- Intuitive Web development from the back-end to the end result
- Wrangle disparate C++ code into one arena
- Build new Windows® 7 applications or upgrade existing applications
- Enable Office tools to make your solutions more flexible and productive for specific needs
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I didn't find nothing about LINQ approvements, but let's hope that LINQ in .NET Framework 4.0 will be better :)
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