HDNUG – January 2010 Meeting – Recap

I attended the January 2010 Houston .NET User Group meeting and there was a great turnout (about 100 people in attendance)  to see Rob Vettor speak on Visual Studio 2010.

Announcements

2010 Officers

• President – John Hellman
• Vice President – J Sawyer
• Treasurer – Michael Steinberg
• Secretary – Justin ???

2010 Houston Techfest – Saturday, 10/09/2010 @ University of Houston

Markus Egger will be the speaker at the February 2010 meeting

New and long awaited website design at http://www.hdnug.org

Zain Naboulsi announced the Windows 7 "Windows @ Work" Article Contest. A contest that he is putting on in conjunction with The Code Project.

Submit a great article explaining how you built an app for Windows 7 – complete with code – and if yours is the highest rated article by both The Code Project community and our judges, you could win a fully loaded HP Touchsmart tx2z Notebook!

Visual Studio 2010 is slated for release 4/22/2010

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The main presentation was given by Rob Vettor. He talked about Visual Studio 2010 and the history of how it came about as well as some of the new features.

Some New and Extended Features in VS 2010

• CLR 4.0
• Cloud Computing
• Parallel Computing
• Visual F#
• VS UI is built in WPF
• DLR – Dynamic Language Runtime
• MEF – Managed Extensibility Framework (for building plugins for VS)
• All the normal languages have been extended (C#, VB.NET, AJAX, etc)
• Entity Framework 4.0
• Multi-Targeting – Capability of dealing with previous versions of the Framework (2.0+)

Sku Versions

The number of Visual Studio versions has been reduced. Now there are only 4 main skus to remember

Here is a comparison of the old sku setup to the new sku setup.

Below is what is included in each of the new skus.

Roadmap

• Beta 1 has come and gone
• Beta 2 is now available
• March 2010 – Release Candidate
• April 22/2010 – Official Release

Rob gave a great high-level overview of what is  coming in Visual Studio 2010.  As always, there were some good magazines given away.

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Until next month…

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