Keynote: Visual Studio 2010 - Get Ready for the Next Wave

So the first session of VSLive Orlando. I'm going to post some stream of consciousness sort of thoughts on each of the sessions here. Enjoy!

Keynote: Visual Studio 2010 – Get Ready for the Next Wave
Matt Carter

State of dev – failure high!
68% of proj never make it to production
VS2010 around reducing failure
“Over 50% of projects will cost almost 200% of their original budget.” – Forrester. P&C was ok!
Focus on capacity planning and PM-ish features (in Team Foundation) – Does this integrate with Project?
SketchFlow in Expression Studio 3 for prototyping. Looks like an intereting tool worth considering.
Claim: “Regression errors are a thing of the past.” Big words, Matt. Big words.
They have a new light version of TFS coming out. Not sure if it will be cheaper or what. But promising.
Showed off some of the manual testing stuff in TFS. Nothing special, but integration is nice. Really turns VS into your hub for everything.
Performance of VS2010 pretty slow – promises better by release!
And the first crash occurs 34 minutes in while connecting to TFS. Mark it!
One cool part about manual testing – it automatically captures video of the steps.
I like that the testing/bug tracking/development are all integrated.
Ah, kinda cool. Automatically creates a test for the developer after bug is generated, and will walk through and replay the EXACT steps the QA tester used to generate the bug. Less sending the bug back?
Better Visual Studio Gallery integration…never used it, but maybe I will now.
Undock individual tabs – nice.
Trying to improve start page. Looks like ability to add widgets. He’s trying to show off some sort of Twitter feedback mechanism. Not really working and I don’t understand it. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say I can safely continue to ignore this stuff.