VS 2010 Ships!

I am happy to say that VS 2010 is generally available starting today! Go to the Visual Studio home page for information.

As you are probably aware, we put a huge investment in our testing products into this release. I outlined the new features with my post Elevating the Role of the Tester with Visual Studio 2010. The Visual Studio Team Test blog is a great place to keep up with these features, as is our fantastic online documentation rooted here: Testing the Application.

For those of you doing performance testing, my team has been working very hard these past two years to deliver a boat load of new features to you in this release. Early customer feedback shows that these features will dramatically improve your productivity. Here is a list of links to blog posts and documentation on what’s new in VS 2010 for performance testers.

What’s new in VS 2010	What's New for Web Performance and Load Testing
	Product Transitions from VS 2008 to VS 2010 for Load Testing
	Introducing the Microsoft Visual Studio Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010
	Elevating the Role of the Tester with Visual Studio 2010
Web Test Debugging	Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques for Visual Studio 2010
	Debugging a Web Test with VS 2010
	Walkthrough: Correlating Dynamic Parameters
Web Test Recorder	How to: Create a Recorder Plug-In Adding Your Own Web Test Recorder Plugin to Make Record/Playback “Just Work” Web Test Recorder Plug-in Convert Comments entered in Web Test Recorder into Transactions Extensible recorder plugins for modifying recorded web tests
	How to: View Recording Log in Web Performance Test Playback VSTS 2010 Feature: View Recording Log in Web Test Playback Window
	New Tools Options for the Recorder
	More Recorder Enhancements in VS 2010
	VSTS 2010 Feature: File Upload record/playback just works
Web Test Editor	How to: Set Request Details in a Web Performance Test Request Details Editor
	Find/Replace in Web Test Editor
	Adding Loop and Branch Logic to Web Requests in Web Performance Tests Branching and Looping in Declarative Web Tests Looping and Branching in Web Tests
	Request Body Plugins How to: Create a Custom HTTP Body Editor for the Web Performance Test Editor
	How to: Use Reporting Names to Easily Identify Requests in a Web Performance Test
Web Test Result Viewer	How to: Create a Visual Studio Add-In for the Web Performance Test Results Viewer Extensible Web test result viewer plugins Tracking viewstate using a webtest playback add-in Result Viewer Plugins
	How to: Resolve Web Performance Test Playback Issues Caused by Dynamic Parameters
	How to: Jump to Web Request from the Web Performance Test Playback
	How to: Add an Extraction Rule from the Web Performance Test Playback
	API for Processing Web Test Results
	Enhancements for Web Test Playback UI
Load Test Modeling	VSTS 2010 Feature: Sequential Test Mix
	VSTS 2010 Feature: More flexible load modeling via new options on Load Test Scenarios Configuring Test Iterations in a Load Test Scenario How to: Delay the Start Time of a Scenario Using the Load Test Editor
	Multiple Loadtest Plug-ins Creating and Using Custom Plug-ins for Load and Web Performance Tests
Load Test Analysis	Using The Virtual User Activity Chart to Understand the VS Load Engine Load test virtual user activity visualization
	Modifying Load Test Logging Settings Saving Test Logs during a load test How to: Specify if Test Failures are Saved to Test Logs Using the Load Test Editor
	Deep integration with the ASP.NET profiler
	Deep integration with dynaTrace
	How to: Configure Event Log Collection Using Test Settings
	Create a Simple Data Collector to Integrate Data into Load Test Analyzer (Tables View) Integrate Data Collector Data into Load Test Analyzer (Tables View)
Performance Reporting	Performance Reporting in Excel Reporting Load Tests Results for Comparison or Trend Analysis
Agent/Controller	VS 2010 Test Agent and Test Controller Troubleshooting Guide
	VSTS 2010 Feature: Silent Installation of Controller and Agent
	Process Model Changes in VS 2010
	How to: Specify 64-Bit Process Using Test Settings
Network Emulation	How to: Configure Network Emulation Using Test Settings
	Introducing True Network Emulation in Visual Studio 2010
	Stand-Alone Network Emulation and CodePlex
	Specifying Virtual Network Types in a Load Test Scenario

Ed.