My favorite features in upcomming Visual Studio 2010/.net 4.0

by Miha Markič 1. June 2009 21:48

The following two are my favorite features comming with .net 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010:

  • parallel extensions - a great and easy way to utilize those idle cores in your multi core machines. It might be as easy as adding an AsParallel() extension method to a LINQ query. I even did a bunch of presentations on the topic, the last one at NT Konferenca 2009.
  • code contracts - improving the code in both design time (static analysis!) and runtime (note: albeit this feature is a part of .net 4.0 beta you have to download the package to install design time support for Visual Studio 2010 beta. This step is supposed to be redundant for RTM or sooner).
Perhaps there are other better features however these two are the ones I am most interested *currently*. So, what are yours?

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.net 4.0 | VS 2010

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Petar Repac
Petar Repac
6/2/2009 4:00:58 PM #

WF 4.0 - MS reimplemented the whole workflow story from scratch. Must still take time to look at this new beast.

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Miha currently works as a free lance consultant and software developer specialized in .net area.
He graduated in Computer and information science at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has accumulated experience in various programming languages such as Java, Visual Basic 3-6 (MCP), Visual C++, Delphi, C# and VB.Net through years.
He has experience in practically all (technical) stages of project development, including planning, framework development, user interface, business processes, as well as testing and documenting. He has worked on big and small projects in Slovenia and abroad (e.g. participated in completing level 3 IS for the Nucor steel plant, Hertford, USA).
Currently he enjoys programming in .net environment using C#. Since 2000 he has been active in Developer Express' DX Squad and has been ECDL trainer and tester. He also gives lectures on conferences and other events in Slovenia.

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