by theRobotGeek
13. January 2009 21:21
Angela Benkowski and Paul Hacker gave us a lap around Visual Studio 2010. The main emphasis seems to be test driven development. There will be more design tools for Silverlight baked into VS2010. They have enhanced the dynamically generated architecture diagrams. That looked pretty cool. I'm gonna need a bigger monitor though. All the namespaces, classes and methods take up the whole screen. We will be able to generate a sequence diagram from code. For those of us who don't like to write lots and lots of documentation, this will be a handy feature for me to generate the documentation.
In addition, there will be testing of user interfaces called CodedUI Test. It has a record feature that allows you to set up your UI tests and record the user actions. Once you're finished recording a set of user actions, you will be able to generate code. Once the code is generated, then you can go back and modify and/or add assert statements.
They will be introducting Dotfuscator Software Services. Big brother is watching. They are adding tracking features and allows developers to attempt to tamper proof their applications. You will be able to instrument your applications to send data about how users are using your app. The problem I have is privacy issues.