November 5th What's Happening Around Visual Studio

Quick recap of what's been happening around the team.

• Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 Beta - Download this beta release that comes with a "go-live" license and is available to all Team Explorer Everywhere owners. Check out Brian Harry's announcement post for more details.
• Making Asynchronous Programming Easy - Recommend you check out these detailed posts about Async from the teams (What's Next in C#? Get Ready for Async! and Announcing the Async CTP for Visual Basic (and also Iterators!).
• The Story of Help in Visual Studio 2010 - Check out Jeff Braaten's blog series that gives a behind-the-scenes look at our help system and a preview of changes that are coming.
• TFS on Windows Azure at the PDC - The move to the cloud is gaining momentum.  Learn about how the TFS team is making sure your investment in TFS today has a clear path to get you there in the future.  You can find additional information about hosting services for TFS on our VS site.
• VS ALM Library Updates on MSDN - A new set of documentation was recently published in our VS Library.  The team continues to build out these types of updates as a direct result of your feedback.
• OData support in Visual Studio LightSwitch - There has been a lot of discussion of whether there is OData support in LightSwitch. Check out the team's post on how to create a RIA service wrapper for OData Source.
• More Resources for SharePoint Developers - Check out these how-to videos that demonstrate how to use the SharePoint developer tools in Visual Studio.

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Comments

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2010
  Hi Jason, Any chance of releasing the 'Document Map Margin' to the visual studio gallery? code.msdn.microsoft.com/.../View.aspx Though you guys didn't choose to release it officially with VS2010; it would be nice to have a play around with it. thanks

• Anonymous
  November 14, 2010
  @Cole - stay tuned, I think you will be happy ;-)

• Anonymous
  November 14, 2010
  @Jason - thanks for the reply.  Will I be happy before Christmas or will it be sometime in the new year?