Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Walkthroughs

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate walkthroughs that include technical information and other learning resources.

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 provides an alternative to creating SharePoint applications through SharePoint Designer. Visual Studio promotes rapid SharePoint development by providing such features as advanced debugging tools, IntelliSense, statement completion, and project templates. Visual Studio also takes advantage of advanced .NET Framework-based tools and languages. SharePoint projects can be developed by using either Visual Basic or Visual C#.

Walkthroughs Add Feature Event Receivers Create a Custom Field, Content Type, List Definition, and List Instance Create a Site Definition Project Import a SharePoint Designer Reusable Workflow into Visual Studio 2010 Import Items from an Existing SharePoint Site Creating a Web Part for SharePoint Creating a Web Part for SharePoint by Using a Designer Create a Custom Site Workflow Activity Creating a Workflow with Association and Initiation Forms Creating and Debugging a SharePoint Workflow Solution Add an Application Page to a Workflow Creating an Application Page Creating an External List in SharePoint List by Using Business Data Deploying a Project Task List Definition How To... Add and Remove Features to a Package by Using the Package Designer Add or Remove SharePoint Connections Create a BDC Model Create an Event Receiver Customize a SharePoint Feature Library SharePoint Development in Visual Studio Blog SharePoint Team Blog Forum: SharePoint Development Forum   Top of Page

Silverlight and WPF Data Binding in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 now offers Drag and Drop data binding for WPF applications. After you add a data source to your project, you can generate data-bound Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) controls by dragging items from the Data Sources window to the WPF Designer.

Walkthroughs Binding Silverlight Controls to an ADO.NET Data Service Binding WPF Controls to an Entity Data Model Binding WPF Controls to a Dataset Binding WPF Controls to an ADO.NET Data Service Displaying Related Data in a WPF Application How to... Display Related Data in WPF Applications Create Lookup Tables in WPF Applications Library Binding WPF Controls to Data in Visual Studio Blog VSX Team Blog Forum Visual Studio Extensibility Beta Forum   Top of Page

Core Coding Experience in Managed Languages

Visual Studio 2010 is an exciting release in managed languages and tools. Visual C# and Visual Basic languages continue to evolve towards feature parity, strive to simplify programming and deployment with the Microsoft Office APIs, and allow easy interop to dynamic languages. Visual F# is a new programming language which combines functional, object-oriented and explorative programming to provide a succinct, expressive and scalable language for .NET. In the tools space, Visual Studio 2010 offers greater support for Test-Driven Development, where tests are written before product code as an iterative approach to software design.

Walkthroughs Office Programming (C# and Visual Basic) Embedding Type Information from Microsoft Office Assemblies (C# and Visual Basic) Using Visual F# to Create, Debug, and Deploy an Application Creating and Using Dynamic Objects (C# and Visual Basic) Embedding Types from Managed Assemblies (C# and Visual Basic) Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio TDD Support with the Generate From Usage Feature How to... Use Named and Optional Arguments in Office Programming (C# Programming Guide) Access Office Interop Objects by Using VIsual C# 2010 Featured (C# Programming Guide) Create a Collection Used by a Collection Initializer Create an Add Extension Method Used by a Collection Initializer 'How Do I' Videos for the Visual Studio 2010 IDE How Do I: Use Highlight References in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE How Do I: Use Generate from Usage in Visual Studio 2010 How Do I: Use the Call Hierarchy with DJ Park How Do I: Use Generate from Usage to Support Test Driven Development in Visual Studio 2010 Library Visual Basic and C# Languages Visual F# Blogs Visual Basic Team Blog Beth Massi Blog Charlie Calvert's Community Blog Don Syme's WebLog on the F# Language and Related Topics Forums Visual Basic Languages Forum Visual Basic IDE Forum Visual C# Language Forum Visual C# IDE Forum hubFS: THE place for F# Forum   Top of Page

Native Development

Visual C++ 2010 provides a powerful and flexible development environment for creating Microsoft Windows-based and Microsoft .NET-based applications.

Walkthroughs Using MSBuild to Create a Visual C++ Project Deploying a Visual C++ Application to an Application-local Folder Deploying a Visual C++ Application By Using the Visual C++ Redistributable Package Deploying a Visual C++ Application By Using a Setup Project Adding a CTaskDialog to an Application How to... Add a Custom Build Step to MSBuild Projects Add Custom Build Tools to MSBuild Projects Add Restart Manager Support Use Build Events in MSBuild Projects Write a Move Constructor Library Visual Studio C++ Blog Visual C++ Team Blog Forum Visual C++ Forum   Top of Page

Parallel Computing

The Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework 4 and the Concurrency Runtime for Visual C++ 2010 enable developers to leverage parallel computing. By using these frameworks, developers can write parallel applications that will scale efficiently as the numbers of cores and processors increase. By avoiding the complexities of thread-focused programming models, the new parallel libraries simplify the production of parallel code and enable developers to more easily take advantage of parallel hardware. Visual Studio 2010 RC also provides new debugging and profiling tools to help developers understand and verify the behavior of their parallel applications.

Walkthroughs Debugging a Parallel Application Implementing Futures Using Join to Prevent Deadlock Using Task Groups to Improve Performance Creating an Agent-Based Application Channel 9 Video: VS2010 Parallel Computing Features Tour How to... Use the Parallel Tasks Window Use the Parallel Stasks Window Create and Execute a Simple PLING Query Stop or Break from a Parallel.For Loop Use Combinable to Improve Performance Use parallel_invoke to Call Functions in Parallel Cancel a Parallel Algorithm Library Concurrency Runtime Blogs The Moth Visualize Parallel Parallel Programming with .NET Blog Parallel Programming in Native Code Blog Forum Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework Forum   Top of Page

Visual Studio Extensibility

Downloading and managing extensions has never been easier. The ability to find and download your favorite extension is now integrated into common dialogs like the New Project Dialog. Configuring, managing and uninstalling extensions is much easier through the new Extension Manager. You can get full access to the large ecosystem of extensions using Visual Studio as well as an online experience using the Visual Studio Gallery.

General Walkthroughs Creating an Inline Task Creating an MSBuild Project File from Scratch Using MSBuild Publishing a Visual Studio Extension Unpublishing Extensions from Beta 2 to RC Editor Walkthroughs Link a Content Type to a File Name Extension Creating a Margin Glyph Highlighting Text Outlining Displaying Matching Braces Displaying Quick Info Tips Displaying Signature Help Displaying Statement Completion Displaying SmartTags Using a Shortcut Key with an Editor Extension How to... Install and Remove Visual Studio Extensions Update a Visual Studio Extension Use Reference Highlighting Add a Reference to a VSIX Package Deploy VSIX Content in an MSI Disable and Re-enable Visual Studio Extensions Library Visual Studio Software Development Kit (SDK) Blog VSX Team Blog Forum Visual Studio Extensibility Forum   Top of Page

Office Development in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 comes with improved Office Development functionality. You can now deploy multiple Office Solutions in one package which will appear as a single entry in the Add/Remove Programs in Windows XP or Programs and Features in Windows Vista. Visual Studio 2010 now also allows you to perform additional actions after the Office solution installation is complete such as copy documents or workbooks to the end user computer, create extra registry keys, or modify a configuration file.

Walkthroughs Deploying Multiple Office Solutions in a Single ClickOnce Installer Copying a Document to the End User Computer after a ClickOnce Installation How to... Add Commands to Shortcut Menus in Word Library Office Development in Visual Studio Blog Office Development with Visual Studio Blog Forum Office Development Forum   Top of Page

Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation

In the .NET Framework 4, there have been significant enhancements in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) namespaces. .NET developers can use these technologies, either independently or together, to eliminate the tradeoff between ease of service authoring and performant, scalable services. WF provides significant enhancements in this release such as explicit data model and fully declarative experience for authoring activities, a new Flowchart modeling style, deeper integration with WCF and high performance runtime engine.

Resources Upcoming Changes to .NET 4 WCF and WF WCF/WF Samples Channel 9: endpoint .NET 4 Windows Server AppFabric to Scale and Manage WCF & WF Services Whitepapers A Developer's Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) .NET 4 Beta 2 A Developer's Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) in .NET 4 Beta 2 Blog The .NET Endpoint Blog Forums .NET Framework 4: Windows Communication Foundation Forum .NET Framework 4: Workflow Foundation Forum   Top of Page

Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010

	Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable services on Windows Azure.
Walkthroughs Quick Lap Around the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Library Windows Azure Tools Documentation Windows Azure SDK Documentation Blog Windows Azure (Cloud) Computing Tools Cloudy in Seattle Forum Windows Azure Forum   Top of Page