In a previous article, I displayed brand technologies in Visual Studio 2010. Since Visual Studio 2010 still in beta phase, some bugs and errors are found in this version of Visual Studio in just a glimpse about the product in less than 3 hours from first installation on a Windows 7 RC x64 machine.

Installation

Installation went smooth and fast without mentioned errors. I’ve tried several tests of installation on optical media "DVD”, local source and network source.

During network installation, I’ve powered off the network machine that include shared installation folder while installer was trying to extract a cabinet file. Installation considered file as corrupted and installation rolled back. During rollback, an error occurred stating that one of restoring computer to its previous state could not be found. Setup crashed because of absence of a Retry option during installation!

Smart Devices Developers

If you’re a smart device developer, Microsoft is telling you if you still in need of programming Windows Mobile and Windows CE application, do not rely on Visual Studio 2010 since it’s no more supported in this release of Visual Studio. As most of Windows CE developers expected a solution for the Platform Builder on Windows CE 6.0 that was only was available for installation on Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft didn’t include the whole smart devices programmability set!

That maybe since Google and Apple released a free IDE for mobile developers to develop their own application, I guess Microsoft is going to release a special IDE for mobile developers free of charge unlike Visual Studio 2010. Hoping Microsoft would make a declaration about this criticism as soon as possible.

Cursor Blink

A very strange issue in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE is that the Cursor blinks in a strange technique causing a shadow after every blink which might cause some eye problems especially developers can’t work except by tracking the cursor (The shown image illustrates the cursor “3rd line” in a snapshot and it appears scattered").

Non Functional Buttons

Let’s start a project from an existing code for all C++, Visual Basic and C#.

For C++

I’ve tried to open an existing code folder written on C++ to complete it. I tried to click the Browse button, it’s not functional! I tried to do the same for Add button to check validity of it, the same! Not working!

For Visual Basic and C#

I’ve tried to validate all buttons and actions on this wizard for both VB and C#, I clicked the Browse button (represented as …) and then a window appeared to Select Folder then clicked Cancel without adding an option. The bug appeared, the drive letter (c:\) was called back again but in a non-unicode character (Asian character) that was translated into a strange box or undefined character set. Also the whole path was converted into lowercase ignoring true naming of path folders and drive letters as well.

Visio 2007 UML Reverse Engineering

Microsoft Visio 2007 Professional is installed on my machine, since it’s installed, a plug-in used to reverse Engineer code into UML diagrams, the tool was not found in this release of Visual Studio 2010.

That was after 2-3 hours of installation. I’m going to get in depth with Visual Studio 2010 Team System to find more bugs and I’m going list them in following articles beside another series of articles as tutorials of the new product.