Upgrading Development Environment and Infrastructure

Developing cutting-edge software is what I want to do. That means staying up-to-date with the latest development tools and technologies. For those who want to know, these are the tools I work with:

Coding: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, C#

User interface: Window Presentation Foundation (.NET 4.0)

Font development: FontLab Studio 5

Laptop: Dell XPS M1710

Server: Dell PowerEdge 510


Last week I upgraded from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010. One thing that is improved in this new version, is the quality of text rendering: good for us, because it means that WAG symbols will be displayed better. On the other hand, some features I used in older versions, are disbanded by Microsoft and no longer work in VS 2010: extra rework for me. And finally the software uses a new framework that will not exist on most computers, and therefore it must be installed with the GS applications: more mega bytes to download and installing the software will take longer.