Developers give thumbs up to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

By Ojas Sharma   |   Tuesday, 13 April 2010, 15:46 IST   |    5 Comments
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Developers give thumbs up to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Bangalore: Microsoft has officially launched Visual Studio 2010, along with many other products at the Microsoft TechED India 2010. The product was officially announced "open for sale" by S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President - Developer Division at Microsoft in his keynote session yesterday. His session consisted of demos of few of the new features offered by Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft has launched the beta version of Visual Studio 2010 few weeks ago. So many developers had a pretty good idea about the new features and for those who have not checked it yet, the demos in Somasegar's presentation managed to enlighten the others as well. In the session, Somasegar had said, "Visual Studio 2010 is a tool which will enable developers to translate their ideas into action," Siliconindia, asked few developers regarding the new features launched in Visual Studio 2010 and how it will help them. "We usually spend a lot of time in searching file. So the new feature which helps in quick navigation of files will be very helpful," said Rishub Tulsian, Software Engineer, GE Energy. Apart from this, he feels the customizable start page is a nice option too. Not many developers have shifted to Microsoft Windows 7, but slowly and steadily the number is increasing. To support this Microsoft has launched new features in Visual Studio 2010, which will help developers take advantage of the new operating system. Also, the libraries in the software have been updated extensively. Jay Ganesh, who is Senior Software Engineer for Applied Materials, said, "The look and feel of the software is good and lot of wizard tools are added which will help in saving time." For all those developers who cursed Microsoft for removing Class Wizard, have a reason to be happy again. "The best thing that Microsoft has done in Visual Studio 2010 is bringing Class Wizard back again. It was there in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 but was then removed," informed Maneesh Jolly, who is a Senior Software Engineer with Prism Network. There was one feature launched by Microsoft that got most applause from the developers. Finding bugs in the software has always been a painful process. Developers write a code and send it for testing, and the testing team finds an error and sends it back to developers, who then find it difficult to find out what exactly went wrong. To save time of both developers and testers, Microsoft has launched a new feature which gives detailed information, when a particular bug crashes or an unexpected error is reported. Along with the step by step information on the steps taken by the tester, Visual Studio 2010 also records a video which tells developers where exactly things went wrong. "Debugging a particular exception with the help of video will help developers narrow down the problem and solve it much quicker," said Ganesh. Commenting on other useful feature, Susmitha Iyer, Lead Software Engineer, GE Energy said, "The feature where you can take a window out of Visual Studio and use multiple monitors will be very helpful to see the results of your work immediately." So it is quite obvious from above reactions of developers that they are quite excited about the new features in Visual Studio 2010. But, there are few disadvantages as well. Running so many features takes a toll on the computer. "Running Visual Studio 2010 takes lot of resources. I cannot run multiple projects as my system hangs," said Leela Rani G, Technical Analyst, Infosys. It is a known fact that even though Microsoft has dropped the resource usage of Microsoft 7, it is nowhere near the resource need for XP. To run Visual Studio on Windows 7 will need a strong processing power. If you are a developer or tester, and have used the beta version of Visual Studio 2010, then let us know your comments about the product and its new features.