Visual Studio 2010 Purchase Options

I’ve previously blogged about the different Visual Studio 2010 Product editions and thought it would probably be worthwhile also posting information on how you can get hold of the right version for you. As mentioned in my previous post, Visual Studio 2010 comes in the following editions: Visual Studio 2010 Express Visual Studio 2010 Professional Visual Studio 2010 Premium Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Visual Studio 2010 Test Professional One thing that I noticed was different with Visual Studio 2010 is that some of the Visual Studio 2010 editions (mainly the top-end ones) can only be purchases with an MSDN…

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Search Engine Innovation: Bing vs. Google

I’ve been thinking about this for a while. It would seem that for a while now Search has not really evolved much, it’s been a little over 10 years now since Google came to life and there’s hasn’t been much change in the way people search the internet. Maybe there have been some changes to improve things under the hood but really, on the surface Google hasn’t changed that much over that time. In recent years Microsoft has been making an effort to try and close the gap on Google and I now thing their…

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Visual Studio 2010 Launch Event almost here @ the Australian ALM Conference

So the wait for the arrival of Visual Studio 2010 is almost over. Next Tuesday the 13th of April will be the official launch of Visual Studio 2010 in Australia. The launch event for Visual Studio 2010 will be held at Luna Park in Sydney and will be part of the Australian ALM Conference which is held over 2 days Tuesday & Wednesday 13th & 14th of April. The Australian Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Conference & Visual Studio 2010 Launch Keynote is Free and you can Register here. The keynote speakers for the event are Sam Guckenheimer – Group Product Planner…

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Visual Studio 2010 Product Editions

One of the new things that you may have heard of with Visual Studio 2010 is the simplification of the versions of the IDE. With Visual Studio 2010 there are now only 4 Editions. You can see the different features of each edition in the table shown on the Visual Studio 2010 Editions Comparison page. To learn more about each edition see the list below. Visual Studio 2010 Professional Visual Studio 2010 Premium Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Visual Studio 2010 Test Professional You can also visit the Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Subscriptions page for information on getting the different editions…

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Visual Studio 2010 Additional Resources

In addition to my previous post, if you are looking for some resources on getting to know the Visual Studio 2010 IDE check out the following links. Visual Studio 2010 Essential Resources Visual Studio 2010 Product Documentation What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 What’s New in .NET Framework 4 Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Visual Studio Professional .NET Framework 4…

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Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4.0 useful links

If you?ve been wanting to get a feel of what?s new in Visual Studio 2010 and kick-start some .NET 4.0 development then I recommend that you head over toScott Guthrie?s blog and look through all the recent posts that Scott has published. I don?t know how many .NET developers out there don?t subscribe to Scott?s feed but if you don?t already I really recommend that you do. You can also find a Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference guide on Codeplex. These are just a couple of places to give you a feel…

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Australian ALM Conference and the Visual Studio 2010 launch

So in just over 3 weeks time it will be time for the launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and from what I’ve seen so far since Tech.Ed 2009, I can’t wait! There’s lots of new stuff & improvements coming up in Visual Studio 2010 and here’s a quick list just to name a few areas that have had revamping: New Appearance & Behaviour Tools to Help You Quickly Explore Code Debugging IDE Features Correspond to Project Capabilities Test-First Support Application Lifecycle Management You can see a list of changes in Visual Studio 2010 on…

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Hello 2010!

I thought with the wrap up of MIX 2010 It’s about time I started blogging again. I haven’t been blogging for a while but decided to make a come back! It’s been a bit busy since shifting from Christchurch NZ to Melbourne and I’ve been away for far too long! If you haven’t been to the site you should pay a visit to https://live.visitmix.com to catch up on all the new things that are happening, I’m in the process of doing that myself. For some of the big things that have…

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New blog address

So I’ve recently decided to register a .au domain name so that I don’t frequently communicate with people here in Australia using my NZ based email address, as a result I’ve also decided to have my blog accessible via both URLs you can now get to my blog by visiting or the old URL https://www.dan.net.nz and of course if you already subscribe to my RSS feed via FeedBurner then you don’t need to worry about the URL you use and just subscribe to https://feeds.feedburner.com/dandotnet. You can also email…

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