'Four major pushes' with Visual Studio 10

InternetNews | at | by Mike

Visual Studio 2008 is barely a year old and already Microsoft is discussing the next generation of its flagship developer toolkit, currently titled Visual Studio 10.

A lengthy blog post by a VS program manager sheds light on where the company is going with the next release, which has no release date as yet.

Visual Studio has moved well beyond just being a code compiler into assembling the many parts and components Microsoft has introduced over the years. This includes the .Net framework and the numerous frameworks used to build applications, as well as UI elements like Silverlight.