Visual Studio 2010 has been made available to MSDN subscribers yesterday. I downloaded Visual Studio 2010 today and installed it on Windows 7 RC. I took some images so that you can see what it looks like

Here is what the setup screen looks like, nothing fancy, it is very similar to Visual Studio 2008













Here is what it looks like if you want to customize the install. As you can see F# is now part of Visual Studio 2008

Review of MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-502): Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundation

Written by Matthew A. Stoecker

This book has 524 pages

The reason I read exam preparation books is to learn things about the product which you would otherwise learn the hard way, you might have introduced bugs because you didn’t know why certain things worked the way they did. Taking the prep...

If you have done windows forms development in the past and now you are using Windows Presentation Foundation, then you cannot help but notice that Windows Presentation Foundation uses more resources.

This is why you need Performance Profiling Tools for WPF. Below is a list of 5 five performance profiling tools that are included in the Windows SDK tool, WPFPerf:



Perforator

Use for analyzing rendering behavior.

Visual Profiler

Use for profiling the use of WPF services, such as layout and event handling, by elements in...