I was hanging around and found a very sexy blog, Visual Studio 2010 Community Wallpapers.
This is a non-Microsoft blog, filled with Visual Studio wallpapers sent by users and communities worldwide.
Personally, I got that wallpapers from there:
You can visit the blog using the following link:
And here’s another site of interest, it’s Studio Styles.
Studio Styles is a very nice community for sharing Visual Studio color schemes. Go there and get your desired color scheme NOW:
Actually, I’m about 50 hours (I won’t say 2 days :P)Â late from the launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. I was attending there in CodeProject Tech Summit 2010 for the launch when Bob Muglia gave the keynote speech (Life Runs on Code.)
A bunch of updates has been made to Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 including new visual designers, new capabilities when running on multi-core processors, less time debugging and code interpretion, integrated version control and bug tracking, and more (read more here.)
Five editions of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 are available:
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ProfessionalThe least in features and the least expensive edition. For individuals to perform basic development tasks. Download Details (Trial Version): |
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PremiumFor individuals and teams to deliver scalable, high-quality applications. Download Details (Trial Version): |
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UltimateALM (Application Lifecycle Management formerly called Team System) tools for teams to ensure quality results, from design to deployment. Download Details (Trial Version): |
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Test ProfessionalSpecialized toolset for QA teams to simplify test planning and manual test execution. Download Details (Trial Version): |
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Team Foundation ServerAutomates and streamlines the software delivery process for all team members. Download Details (Trial Version): |
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Now you can with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2What’s new in 2010?
Microsoft kicked off VSLive! San Francisco 2009 this week with more news about what’s planned for Visual Studio 2010.
In the keynote on Tuesday, Microsoft General Manager for Visual Studio Jason Zander showcased advances in the new VS 2010 user interface (UI) for the first time to VSLive! attendees.
“We’ve announced so far that we are using WPF for the new editor that we’ve put in place and made a lot of progress on that,” he said in a pre-show interview. “With this release of the product, we will be showing our overall new UI for the product.”
According to Zander, Microsoft has “modernized the look and feel for VS 2010” with a new UI built on WPF that rearranges file menus and commands at the top of the IDE. “We are making extensive use of the .NET Framework 4.0…as well as the WPF technology within the framework,” he said. “We’ve improved the way you can examine your source code, your project system, the hierarchies that you have and all the data stored in TFS, as well.” Screenshots of the new UI can be viewed at Zander’s blog.
Source- Redmond Developer News
Visual Studio 2008 has been localized into Arabic, Czech, Hebrew, Hindi, Polish, Tamil, Turkish, Malayalam and Oriya as a free “CLIP” download package.
“CLIP” stand for “Captions Language Interface Pack”. It’s basically an add-on with localized user interface that you install on top of the English version of Visual Studio. The CLIP package allows you to see translations of menus, button and so on as tooltips when running Visual Studio.
It’s designed for users who use the English version, but want to see the most common user interface in their own language as well.
The translations in the CLIP package are a joint-effort between Microsoft and local communities.
When you hover your mouse over a menu or command, a separate box (or a tooltip depending on your setup) will display the translation in the local language. You can also add your own translation for user interface items.
Just Like a Magic:
A smart way from Microsoft. CLIP gets Microsoft not to provide another copies from it’s products for native languages (e.g. Arabic, Turkish). But, The downward side is that CLIP isn’t specific for Visual Studio 2008 or even any product! CLIP is for everything. Just point in a word and CLIP checks the dictionary and returns it’s equivalent in the selected language.
That’s may be OK for many users using many applications in English. But, If you consider using it for VS2008 it will be really useless. Because of, these CLIP packages contain only the common words (like, File, Edit, View). However, It doesn’t contain the translation of such words, as a simple example, ‘Console’!!!
Source: Microsoft Terminology Blog
Just Like [a] Magic 