Microsoft Promises Desktop-To-Cloud Development With Visual Studio 2010

By Rick Whiting, CRN
April 12, 2010 5:23 PM ET

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Microsoft began shipping its long-awaited Visual Studio 2010 development toolset Monday, offering support for Windows 7, Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform, and the latest releases of SharePoint Server and Windows Phone.

Microsoft also shipped .NET Framework 4 Monday and said Silverlight 4, a new version of the Web rich-application framework, will be released later this week.

The wave of new development technologies provides ISVs, channel partners and corporate developers with the ability to build applications that span desktops, mobile devices, the Web and cloud computing environments.

"Obviously, this is a huge release for us," said Sean McBreen, senior director of developer marketing at Microsoft, in an interview prior to the release. "I think there's a huge amount of pent-up demand for this," he added, noting that this is the first release of Visual Studio in almost two and a half years and the most significant since Visual Studio 2005.

Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's server and tools business, officially launched the new products at the Microsoft Visual Studio Conference & Expo event at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.

"With the launch of Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4, developers around the world will find it much easier to build immersive applications that cross organizational boundaries, and enable their businesses to be successful, both today and in the future," Muglia said.

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