Visual studio 2010

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Visual Studio 2010

I am going to post few exciting features of Visual Studio 2010 in a day or two. So keep reading.

Beta Versions

Beta is the nick name of the software which has passed the alpha testing phase. It is the prototype of the software which is released to the public.

This is the first version released outside the organization.

Sometimes this version is known as a preview, a prototype, a technical preview (TP) or as an early access.

The term beta test comes from an IBM hardware product test convention, dating back to punched card tabulating and sorting machines.

Alpha Versions

This version is released for internal software testers sometimes to public also.
In these kinds of versions the testers test this software using white box techniques. And then black box and grey box techniques.

Moving to black box testing inside the organization is known as alpha release

Pre Alpha Version

Pre Alpha version is not feature complete.
These versions allow the testers to test the recently implemented functionality immediately, and find the new bugs.

Software Versions

There are total 7 stages before releasing the real software.

First stage is called PRE-ALPHA testing version.

Second stage is called ALPHA version.

Third stage is called Beta version.

Fourth stage is called RC(RELEASE CANDIDATE) version.

Fifth stage is called RTM(RELEASE TO MANUFACTURING) version.

Sixth stage is called GA(GENERAL AVAILABILITY) version.

Seventh stage is called Production Or Live release or Gold version.


In my next post I will explain every version in detail one by one.

Unique folders

You can't create a folder names con or aux or com1 or com2 or com3 or com4 or com5 or com6 or com7 or com8 or com9.

The reason is there keywords are reserved by dos.

So if you want to create folders using these names follow this simple trick...

Go to dos prompt;

Then type md .\con\. This will create a folder named con.

If you want to delete the folder repeat the same procedure with rmdir .\con\.