Code Library

Visual Studio 2010 also has many miscellaneous improvements and support for libraries. The WPF designer is improved, and there’s a visual editor for the new Windows Workflow. XSLT gets a profiler and XSD gets a new designer. WPF and Silverlight get drag-and-drop data binding. ASP.NET gets many new features to support the vast improvements in development brought by jQuery and Model-View-Controller (MVC). The T4 code generator becomes a first-class citizen and a new style of T4 execution called preprocessed templates lets you generate code from apps outside Visual Studio, either with a standalone generator or your runtime application. Visual Studio 2010 embraces SharePoint development.

Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010 support cloud development. There’s better support for other languages, including F# in the box, and snippet support for HTML and JavaScript. Whew! There are an amazing number of improvements, and I’m skipping the plethora of features resulting from the efforts in architecture, testing, database management and other areas that are reserved for the Ultimate version.

Source of Information : Visual Studio Magazine August 2010