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What's new in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 has a new icon and a new colour scheme - a sure sign that things have changed!
Specific new or changed features in Visual Studio 2010 include:
New/changed Visual Studio 2010 feature - DOCKING WINDOWS
Windows are now dockable at all times, and (as the diagram below shows) can be docked in a number of new positions (including on a second monitor).
New/changed Visual Studio 2010 feature - ZOOMING
You can hold down the CTRL key and rotate the mouse wheel to zoom in and out on text or code windows. Here someone has zoomed out a bit too far:
New/changed Visual Studio 2010 feature - BOX SELECTION
You've been able to use the ALT key when selecting in Visual Studio for some time (to select a rectangular block of text). New, however, is that you can insert into text selected with the ALT key. In this example, we have a selection zero characters wide - typing an apostrophe would comment out the lines of code.
New/changed Visual Studio 2010 feature - AUTO-SELECTION OF CODE
When you click on a symbol, all instances of the symbol are highlighted in the document. You can move between highlighted symbols by pressing CTRL plus SHIFT + the up or down arrow.
New/changed Visual Studio 2010 feature - WORKING WITH DATA
Visual Studio 2010 includes many changes for working with data, including improved drag-and-drop binding and new Entity Framework features. The enhanced Data Sources window in Visual Studio 2010 is shown here:
You can view a full list of changes in recent versions of Visual Studio by returning to our main Visual Studio version history page.