Installing VS2010 and starting a new project in VS2010 is the right path?

Question

I am getting ready to start a new project and was wanting to use the newest MS development (VS 2010 beta2?) on my desktop PC. I am running W7 and using C#. So who, what , where ,why , and how should I go on this endevor so next year I will still be current on development environments?

Answer 1

It depends on your situation. You can indeed install VS 2010 B2. You can target to the 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0 .net framework (although the 4.0 is not supported yet in production environments). So if you want you can use VS 2010 B2 and target to the 3.5 framework to make full use of the new C# improvements and then upgrade to VS 2010 RTM when it arrives.

Another scenario you can follow is to make use of VS 2008 and upgrade to VS 2010 when it hits RTM. So it is up to you....

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Answer 2

Hi tfcsd,

If you can start your project using VS 2010 Beta2 that would be very cool.  Beta 2 comes with a "Go-Live" license and the upgrade from Beta 2 to the RTM version is a supported scenario so you have some sense of safety going that route.  Starting with VS 2010 will definately keep you current for the next couple of years I would hope!

Cheers,
Larry

Answer 3

I am doing a project that will require distant computers to talk to a master computer to integrate and analyze the info and send that info back to those computers. I also want to use data mining to look for trends and errors. What MS products do I need to install for this to work? So far it seems to get VS2010 to work on my PC requires several programs besides VS2010 to be loaded before I can install VS2010. Which programs do I need to install and in what order?

Answer 4

I talked to local MS MVP and he says to start with VS2010 and all else will be automatically loaded as needed. Ok then that the ticket.