Fadzai Chamba

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Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Has Arrived

Boy, doesn't time move fast. It seems like only a few months ago when I downloaded VS2010 Beta 2 and now the release candidate is here. Okay, so it actually was a few months ago when I did the download, but you get the point don't you? I haven't done any coding in almost a month so I missed this when it came out and only saw it it this morning when I opened Beta 2. This has come out sooner than I expected, and that's a good thing.

I'm just looking at some of the new features available in it (from the MSDN website), and it appears they have a prototyping tool, and from the screen shot available, it seems it has similar functionality to sketchflow. But this works from inside Visual Studio, which is great for left-brained developers like me who know how to use Blend through and through, but still cannot create something appealing to the eye with the tool. The page is offering new integration capabilities for the various roles we have to fill, (developer, designer, tester, etc.), which if improved will totally rock because I think they are great already.

You can aslo see from the MSDN site that as expected, there is a lot of chatter about it on twitter. I don't know about you, but I'm game, and will be downloading this to see what new things it has to offer.

 

Published Mon, Feb 15 2010 1:27 PM by Fadzai Chamba
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# re: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Has Arrived@ Tuesday, March 02, 2010 5:13 PM

I must apologize to all the left-brained developers out there. After downloading the RC, along with TFS, I realized that the screen-shot I had seen with a bug entry screen, was not a prototyping thing, but it was Microsoft Test Manager, formerly Test Lab something something.

I never had TFS before so I've never seen it run before, and had my hopes up thinking we had a Visual Studio equivalent for sketchflow. Well it isn't, and I apologize for raising hopes to those of us who are not designer types. But probably MS can take a hint and make something like that in the next version.

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