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Michael Otey's tour of Visual Studio 2010 in the September issue of SQL Server magazine informs about interesting new changes. Excerpts - ...Windows Presentation Foundation–based IDE. .. after you convert a Visual Studio 2008 project to Visual Studio 2010, you’ll no longer be able to open the project with Visual Studio 2008 IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2010 supports two modes: statement completion and the new suggestion mode. Suggestion mode lets you use members before they’re defined. You can toggle between completion mode and suggestion mode using Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar Visual Studio 2010 provides SharePoint 2010–specific project templates that simplify SharePoint application development. Visual Studio 2010 also provides the ability to debug SharePoint projects. In addition, you can now deploy SharePoint projects directly to SharePoint rather than having to use the old command-line Stsadm tool. New options under the Premium and Ultimate Editions’ Visual Studio 2010 Data ...

A friend asked me this question & this is my attempt at answering it. A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain (like .com, .net, .org) generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible for determining an appropriate trustee for each ccTLD. Each country's trustee may assign registrars to sell domain names with suffixes pertaining to their country as per their policies. A country code second-level domain (ccSLD ) is a second-level domain to a country code top-level domain. Some domain name registries introduce a second-level hierarchy to a TLD that indicates the type of organization intended to register an SLD under it. For example, in the .uk namespace a college or other academic institution would register under the .ac.uk ccSLD, while companies would register under .co.uk. The complete list of suffixes including those for each country are avai...