Visual Studio, Ruby improvements slated

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In separate developments, Microsoft Windows platform developers and Ruby application builders both should gain functionality improvements with efforts afoot at Microsoft and the OMG.

Also, Visual Studio 2010 makes it easier to do "consume-first development," Somasegar said.

"Many features in Visual Studio, such as IntelliSense and Quick Info, work best when an API that a user is consuming is already defined," Somasegar said. "We recognize, though, there are times you need to code against an API that has yet to be defined completely. For example, in test-driven development, we see the test-first pattern.