I am writing this blog at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, NV just moments after the keynote at DevConnections.  The formal announcement has been made that Visual Studio 2010 has launched.

While this has been a long anticipated product release, I can’t help but wonder how long before the .NET community at large will actually embrace adoption.  As a trainer, I encounter many developers who never switched from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008.  A few number recently admitted using Visual Studio 2003.

With support for multi-monitors, code snippets in the web source view, UML diagrams auto-generated, framework enhancements and language features, improved deployment tools, and a fresh IDE – this is the one to switch to now for the developer who wants instant gratification and higher productivity.

Click on the new Visual Studio logo (above) for the cliff-notes on the features you want to know about – courtesy of Scott Hanselman.

Since January 2004, I have been involved with Microsoft’s MVP program with my technical interest being XML.  All good things come to an end, and I am no longer an XML MVP.  This is due to Microsoft dropping XML as an MVP technology proficiency.  In other words, there are no more XML MVPs.  Our days are over…

On a positive note, I have recently been awarded ASP.NET MVP.  I am looking forward to this, as I love to develop in ASP.NET.  As always, a big thanks to Microsoft!

For what it is worth, I still enjoy XML development :)

Alert all PHP developers.  The download for the latest SQL Server driver (1.1) is now available!

Speaker notes for DTL209 Session at Tech-Ed 2009 Africa

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Column Selection:  [ALT] mouse select

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Split Windows: [ALT] W,P

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