Apr12Written by:
Kathy Nguyen
4/12/2010 10:21 AM 
Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET 4.0 will be officially released by Microsoft today. If you want to experience the launch, you can watch the launch with the live webcast of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Launch Conference and Expo, held at the Bellagio Resort in Las Vegas.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/watch-it-live
The new version contains multiple improvements and here are some of them:
- Improved IDE - Multiple new features in Visual Studio IDE
- .NET 4.0 introduces Extensions for Parallel Computing
- Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), and dynamic support in C# with the dynamic keyword
- Functional programming with F#
- Named and Optional Arguments
- BigInteger and Complex Numbers
- Covariance and Contravariance in Generics
- Code Contracts
I will blog about these new features in separate blog entries. Stay tuned!