According to Rob Caron, Marketing Communications Manager for Developer and User Experience Runtimes & Tools at Microsoft, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 are set to officially launch on Monday, April 12. The Visual Studio development system is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to help software developers create innovative, next-generation applications.

Rob Sanfilippo, analyst, Developer Tools and Strategy, Directions on Microsoft, said the performance challenges facing the VS2010 team weren’t hard to anticipate. “I’m not too surprised about the performance issues. I think it has a lot to do with getting it to at least match the previous release,”

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 was released in May and Beta 2 followed in October. At PDC, company officials announced a March 22, 2010 launch date for the IDE and framework. The newly announced April 12 launch date coincides with the DevConnections conference in Las Vegas, April 12-14. [via Visual Studio Magazine]

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Tell us who you are?
My name is Daron Yöndem. I’m a Microsoft Regional Director, currently a Silverlight MVP leading INETA Turkey. I’m the founder of Deveload Software, an ISV based in Istanbul. For the last five years we are focused on UX as a .NET house. We are building Silverlight and WPF apps including rich multitouch implementations. I have two books about ASP.NET AJAX and one about Internet Explorer 8 development.

Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I got awarded on 2008 as an ASP.NET MVP and had the chance to be one of the first five Silverlight MVPs in the world. It was a great luck to have the new competency declared at the same moment as my renewal period
I’m an MVP who likes capturing screencast, writing articles on local User Groups and physical interaction which is (for a computer geek) seminars and conferences about technical beauties. I feel very lucky leading INETA Turkey and our 30+ User Groups. We have annual events with different concepts where we get 10+ INETA Speakers and lots of MVPs contributing to the community.

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When Microsoft released the public beta of Microsoft Office 2010 at PDC, it was regarded as the best Office product ever. It was recently proved when Microsoft released the fact that the beta version of Microsoft Office 2010 has hit 1 million downloads. Microsoft has also revamped the Office portal with some new features and a refresh look and feel.

Recently, a Polish site CentrumXP has revealed the official box art for Office 2010. You can also download the Office 2010 Icon Pack here.

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With the launch of Silverlight 4 at PDC, alot of developers are now working on the new features provided by this platform. Silverlight enables development of the next generation of Microsoft .NET based media experiences and Rich Interactive Applications also known as RIA for the World Wide Web. Here at MicrosoftFeed, we will now try to highlight different cool and interactive Silverlight applications showcasing the power of this platform. Silverlight is delivered as a cross-platform and cross-browser plug-in that exposes a programming framework and features that are a subset of the .NET Framework and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

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At PDC last week, Microsoft User Experience Platform Manager Brian Goldfarb demonstrated H.264 video streaming wirelessly using Microsoft’s Silverlight video streaming to an Apple iPhone. It seems odd but Microsoft is working with Apple to bring Silverlight on iPhone. This could be a big win for Microsoft and Silverlight developers because having the ability to get content to mobile phone users is extremely important. Although Silverlight has uses far beyond video such as developing a desktop client, developing a game or integrating with Facebook etc but it does streaming video extremely well. Do check out the launch of Silverlight 4 which was demoed by Scott Guthrie at PDC.

“The promise of Silverlight is that it’s a cross-device, cross-browser, cross-platform solution, and it works the same on Macs as it does on Windows. The iPhone is a unique scenario. We talked to our customers and they said, ‘Look, we just need to get our content there, and it’s mainly in the media space like broadcasting, and we want to put it on the iPhone.’ They have a great solution for that; if you’re surfing the Web, and hit YouTube and hit ‘Play,’ it’ll play your video because they’ve created an environment where they can safely play media, and they’re comfortable with that, So we’ve worked with Apple to create a server-side based solution with IIS Media Services, and what we’re doing is taking content that’s encoded for smooth streaming and enabling the content owner to say, ‘I want to enable the iPhone.’ The server will dynamically make the content work – same content, same point of origin – on the iPhone. We do this with the HTML 5 tag, in many ways.” Brian Goldfarb – Microsoft User Experience Platform Manager