Visual Studio 2008 vs Visual Studio 2010 on Framework 3.5

I am using Visual Studio 2008 since its release, but I have never ever use Visual Studio 2010. Basically I want to know where VS 2010 is a only a other version of Visual 开发者_StackOverflow中文版Studio or it has some special features.

I have to work in only .NET framework version 3.5 not 4.0

You can develop/target your applications to the 3.5 framework with Visual Studio.

Visual Studio 2010 of course offers a better development experience. Here are those items that I'd highlight to justify the switch:

• better TFS 2010 integrations
• nicer font rendering
• Start Page improvements (pinning projects and no more useless RSS feeds)
• easier path to revving to beyond .NET 3.5
• much improved extensibility and the Visual Studio Gallery integration

In VS 2010 you can use great free extension pack: Power Tools. You can read more about it on Scott Guthrie blog:: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/09/visual-studio-2010-productivity-power-tool-extensions.aspx

I think it's worth going to VS2010 if only for NuGet and Web.Config transformations. I'd also suggest going to .NET 4/MVC3 as well, which would require VS2010. But it's worth doing even without that as an immediate benefit.

I'm not convinced VS2010 is better than VS2008 if you're only developing, for instance, using ASP.NET and WinForms, for .NET 3.5.

Compiling for Framework 3.5 and x86 on Windows 7 x64 is a nightmare due to the Resgen problem, where the workarounds don't always work (I went back to Windows 7 x86 because of this). (Anyone know whether this is fixed with the respective Windows 7 and VS2010 SP1s?)

I'm not clear why, but opening a Winforms designer often fails, requiring a restart of VS and a reload of the solution. This is incredibly irritating.

And the toolbar customisation isn't as nice in VS2010.

I should think that if you want the Framework 4.0 features, or if you're working with Silverlight or WPF, VS2010 is much better.

But otherwise, I don't think the advantages are that clear.

Just Choose your target framework when creating your project in vs 2010.

Same post here:

how to add .net 3.5 to visual studio 2010?

Can I develop asp.net 3.5/2.0 projects using Visual Studio 2010?

Or Try to install .net framework 3.5 and install its update.net framework

Regards