The Visual Studio 2010 IDE is chock full of innovation built on a fresh foundation that is designed to scale to the multi-million line code bases of today. Through a new MSBuild-based build system, users can target different version of the runtime or even create custom platforms. The code editing experience has been improved with features that enable instant navigation across a solution and live reporting of errors in code. With new extensibility models, developers will have the power to customize the IDE experience in entirely novel ways. Of course, we know that productivity isn’t just about writing code and the debugging and profiling experience has been improved as well. This session will cover these powerful new features hands-on in the product.

Do you want to get the most of the Windows platform without re-writing your application and make it even faster in the process? Visual C++ 2010 is encapsulating many of the new Windows features in their frameworks and libraries, so you do not have to do all the heavy lifting yourself. MFC is being extended with inbuilt support for many Windows features and the user experience is undergoing a substantial modernization. With support for the new Windows Taskbar, Windows Touch, High DPI, and Search & Organize, you can imagine the UI experience will seem unrecognizable from that of a few years ago. Add to this the MFC Ribbon and our Restart Manger support and any MFC application can become a modern Windows 7 application. Now is the time to be targeting Windows 7 and Visual C++ is the best tool for that purpose. Come and watch an action-packed demo and see how Visual Studio 2010 is a huge release for C++ developers!