What ide do we need?

Developers mostly use IDE for development in projects. After all, although it is good to use a text editor to write code, in line with the efficiency-first project development principle, a development tool is very important for individuals and teams. Developers of Apple's School of technology love Emacs, which has become a powerful ide after nearly thirty years of development and support of many plug-ins. in Java Development, eclipse and netbeans have their own fans. Many PHP developers certainly won't forget Zend studio and other contestants; A group of programmers who have been familiar with development tools earlier will naturally not forget Borland and many of its tools ...... These tools have their own characteristics, but from the current perspective, they can be defined as ide-integrated development environment.

I attended the press conference of Visual Studio 2010 in Beijing today. The Conference was attended by many people. Most of the participants were developers who used Visual Studio. According to my understanding, many developers have started to use Visual Studio 2003 or 2005, and many of them have been familiar with Visual Studio 6.0 senior developers. Most developers who have been familiar with earlier Visual Studio versions have also used all later versions. The main purpose of this exhibition is to learn about the new features added to Visual Studio 2010.

And they are not disappointed-"This is a new era of IDE ." An audience member sighed after reading the presentation.

◆ C ++, which has not received enough attention in previous versions, has received considerable attention in version 2010. msbuild carries more powerful feature regression, it also includes the popular concurrent build optimization feature.

◆ ADO. Net entity. This powerful framework has been used by many developers to reduce the headache of database operations since it followed vs2008, and has been further enhanced in 2010.

◆ Strong support for third-party jquery libraries makes many web application developers very enthusiastic.

◆ Development for Sharepoint, Windows 7, and Windows Phone 7 looks good. The built-in win Phone 7 simulator looks brilliant. In addition, deploying applications directly to Microsoft's azure cloud in vs2010 does not seem to be laborious.

◆ Silverlight development is also included and seamlessly integrated with expression Studio (Note: Silverlight 4 is expected to be officially released on July 4, April 13 ).

Not only that.

◆ Visual Studio 2010 is also a test tool. neelesh kamkolkar, senior Microsoft product manager, calls it "integrated testing environment (integrated test environment )". With the help of the project management capabilities provided by the Team Foundation server, the test Manager tool has invested a lot of effort in completely recreating bugs, the methods used cover the screen capture, record the system environment, and video recording. In addition, with the support of third-party extensions, Java EE and other projects can be tested, it has attracted the attention of many developers and testers.

◆ Visual Studio 2010 is also an architecture tool. The UML diagram generated by Visual Studio is closely linked with the namespace, sequence, components, and other content in the Code. It is no longer a simple graph, dedicated architecture tools were directly challenged.

In this way, Visual Studio 2010 covers all aspects related to development. "A real integrated development environment" is probably Microsoft's ambition to develop tools.

However, there are also doubts.

 

• Overview of new functions of Visual Studio 2010 and. Net 4
• Use Visual Studio 2010 and MVC 2.0 for enhanced verification ..
• Visual Studio 2010 will embrace UML again
• Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management
• Visual Studio 2010 to simplify project management ..

"After upgrading to 2008, it will feel very slow. Will vs2010 be slower ?" After all, there are hardware restrictions in the real development environment. The common dual-core + 2 GB memory configuration is difficult to achieve in the New Visual Studio. However, looking back at the history of software application development, Microsoft Excel won't beat Lotus 1-2-3 because of the 640kb breakthrough? Memory optimization is always a trend, and multi-core CPUs must be in the right direction for a period of time, which should not be a big problem.

 

"I am a C ++ developer and I don't want to install it.. Net does not like a tool that is only used for C ++ development to occupy a large part of my hard disk (according to the data of the beta version, full installation requires 5 GB of disk space ). Is there no custom method ?"

Integration. This is the most dazzling highlight of Visual Studio 2010, but it has also become a headache for some users. According to Ms. Pan zhenglei, the final version of vs 2010 is divided into three versions: Ultimate Edition (ultimate), Premium Edition (premium), and Professional Edition (professional ).

 

It is conceivable that customizable elasticity is not ideal for some users. Not all developers may have the need to customize features for installation (or even purchase based on features). Maybe for some development teams, using a development tool such as Visual Studio is designed to solve all the problems in the project development process. However, in more cases, a developer or team does not need to use all the functions in Visual Studio 2010. When a participant talked about the powerful component functions in Visual Studio, he lamented the great freedom of modular ide such as Eclipse and netbeans-everything is a plug-in and installation is needed, if you do not need it, unmount it.

Integration and modularization are actually nothing but two different ideas and concepts, just as Windows and Linux have their own user groups and advocates. On the other hand, with the increasing demand for cross-platform compatibility and migration and the increasing emphasis on cross-platform interoperability by Microsoft, the competition between ides will also become more intense. The emergence of Visual Studio 2010 is undoubtedly of great significance. Can this lead to a new round of Technological Innovation in IDE history? Let's wait and see.