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Wednesday morning's Build keynote targeted the rank and file .NET developer, focusing in on the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, among other topics.

Microsoft officially added another tool to the Visual Studio stack on Tuesday with the release of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, a standalone tool for creating data-driven .NET applications that can be deployed to the desktop, Web or Azure cloud.

Microsoft revealed its Visual Studio ALM roadmap at Tech-Ed this week but lack of early information and guidance on the core IDE complicates product development for Visual Studio partners.

The next version of Microsoft's Visual Studio application lifecycle management will expand beyond development and QA to integrate IT operations and input from stakeholders.

The decision to move Scott Guthrie from the Visual Studio developer division to the Azure Application Platform mirrors an earlier shift, when Steven Sinofsky left the Office group to become president of the Windows division.

The new capabilities in LightSwitch Beta 2 draw the tool into line with Microsoft's broad cloud computing strategy.

The release of Visual Studio 2010 SP1 could motivate some development organizations to make the switch to Visual Studio 2010.

Visual Studio add-in extends support to Mac OS X and features improved debugging and deployment.

Visual Studio-based development tool and ASP.NET-based app server enables rich phone applications.

Microsoft positions Visual Studio for developing business intelligence applications.