Aug 5, 2011 09:02 GMT  ·  By

The latest edition of Visual Studio 2010 is currently available for purchase at a $100 discount, just $199 down from $299 via the Microsoft Store. Following the RTM of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, Microsoft also released a few additional resources such as the Training Kit and the Extensibility Toolkit.

The latest addition to this list is the Captions Language Interface Pack for Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, which is currently available free of charge via the Microsoft Download Center.

Users that are already familiar with the Office ScreenTip Language, can infer what the Captions Language Interface Pack for Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is designed to do.

“The Microsoft Captions Language Interface Pack (CLIP) is a simple language translation solution that uses tooltip captions to display translations for English user interface terms,” Microsoft explained.

“CLIP is designed for those Visual Studio Lightswitch users who are not very fluent in English. CLIP can help those users learn and use Visual Studio Lightswitch by providing translation for the most common user interface elements of the application.”

For the time being, CLIP for Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 comes with support for just three languages, namely Czech, Polish and Turkish. Users can leverage the resource in order to easily translate elements of the Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 interface in their native tongue, especially if they have problems understanding the English references.

“To use, simply move your mouse around the screen and halt briefly over any text you want translated. Users can also add their own translations and copy and paste any translation results,” the software giant added.

In addition to being available for purchase, Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 can also be downloaded free of charge, provided that users want to test drive a trial release of the new Visual Studio 2010 SKU designed to develop business applications without any coding work.

Captions Language Interface Pack for Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 are available for download here.

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 RTM Training Kit is available for download here.

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Extensibility Toolkit is available for download here. Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 RTM Trial is available for download here.