| Title | Description |
| Getting Started with Visual Studio | Describes how you can become familiar with this version of Visual Studio, whether you have used other versions or are new to the product. |
| Quick Tour of the Integrated Development Environment | Provides a brief overview of many of the application development features and tools that are included in Visual Studio. |
| What's New in the .NET Framework 4 | Contains information about key features and improvements in the .NET Framework 4. |
| What's New in Beta 2 for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management 2010 (on the MSDN Web site) | Describes the new capabilities of Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management 2010, which replaces Team Foundation Server. |
| What's New in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor | Describes the new and enhanced features in the Visual Studio editor. |
| What's New in Code Generation and Text Templates | Describes how you can use text templates to generate code and other resources in your application, and also to generate text files of any kind at run time. New features include integration with the build process, precompiled text templates, and additional support for customization. |
| What's New in Deployment | Describes how you can deploy applications and the latest version of the .NET Framework as a prerequiste in your ClickOnce or Windows Installer deployment packages. You can also deploy your applications by using InstallShield 2010 Limited Edition. |
| What's New in Office Development | Describes how you can develop solutions for the 2010 Office system and the 2007 Office system. |
| What's New in Data Application Development | Describes the new features for working with data in applications. These include drag-and-drop data binding by using the Data Sources window for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications and Silverlight applications. Additionally, the Entity Data Model tools include many new features, for example, you can generate a database from a conceptual model and you can work with complex types in the ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer. |
| What's New in SharePoint Development | The SharePoint development tools that are included in Visual Studio 2010 help you create SharePoint solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. |
| What's New in Microsoft Reports | Describes the new features in the Visual Studio Report Designer, the Report Wizard, and the ReportViewer controls. |
| Concurrency Runtime | Introduces the Concurrency Runtime, which is a concurrent programming framework for C++. The Concurrency Runtime simplifies parallel programming and helps you write robust, scalable, and responsive parallel applications. The Concurrency Runtime enables both imperative and declarative data-parallelism programming models by providing features such as parallel algorithms, thread-safe collection types, and asynchronous agents. The Concurrency Runtime also provides access to an underlying resource manager and work scheduler. These components abstract platform details and let you achieve efficient work scheduling and maximum CPU utilization. |
| Managing Visual Studio Extensions | Provides an overview of Extension Manager, which lets users easily add and remove Visual Studio extensions. The Extension Manager user interface (UI) resembles the UI of the Windows Add/Remove Programs feature. |
| Start Page | Describes the UI and features of the new Visual Studio 2010 Start Page. |