Visual Studio 2010 SP1 enhances developer support

Microsoft launched a local help viewer for Visual Studio 2010, integrating Project Server with Team Foundation Server to help development teams work more effectively.

Microsoft has released the final version of the integrated development environment (IDE) Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010) Service Pack 1 (SP1), providing capabilities like better help, IntelliTrace for 64-bit systems and SharePoint.

The new in-place helper is a client application that allows developers to navigate the table of contents in a fully extended tree format, searching for topics through keywords, and using shortcuts to Access to many features.

With IntelliTrace , bug fixes are enhanced by allowing developers to see cases that happened in the past instead of deducing them or restarting the application to replicate these cases.

In addition, VS2010 SP1 has Silverlight 4 tools; The unit supports testing for Net 3.5, Microsoft vice president for Visual Studio group Jason Zander said in a blog post on Tuesday. " We focus primarily on fixing the issues you have reported, " said Zander.

MSDN subscribers can access VS2010 SP1 on the web. The wide release took place on Thursday, March 10, 2011. Microsoft also announced it was able to use Team Foundation Server Project Server Integration Feature Pack , integrated with Project Server for project management, and the Team Foundation Server application lifecycle management server (TSF).