The first Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 is available for download, you can get it here: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a15c3ce9-f58f-42b7-8668-53f6cdc2cd83 We just released the first Web Standards Update for Visual St…

It looks like Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is available on MSDN, the files have a timestamp of today. I have been running the beta for a couple of weeks at home, finally I can install this at work. If you don't have a msdn sunscription, then you…

I started my journey on Thursday when I tried to automate the task of closing Visual Studio doing the git checkout and then starting Visual studio again. I failed on that account, and I found that my win7 installation was a bit corrupt, but I got some…

In my attempts to automate the world I learned myself some powershell, and got myself in trouble along the way. But I got to know some very friendly and helpful people along the way, I got a lot of help from Ravikanth Chaganti (blog|twitter). And he got…

I was fortunate enough to receive MSDN Ultimate Subscriptions as well as SQLDenis. I Think Denis's idea and contest to see who we can give these to is excellent. To support Denis and his idea, I'm adding another subscription that will be handed over once we read over the responses. That means your chances just got much better to enjoy the subscriptions and the benefits Visual Studio 2010 has to offer!

Microsoft has made available for download the June 2010 Release of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit.

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including:

C# 4

Visual Basic 10

F#

Parallel Extensions

Windows Communication Foundation

Windows Workflow

Windows Presentation Foundation

ASP.NET 4

Windows 7

Entity Fra...

Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 will be available for download later today on MSDN. Right now it looks like the time that it will be available is 10 AM PDT.

Now when it is available on MSDN don't just download it from the first place you see it, check Top Downloads first ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/bb608344.aspx ) The top downloads page us...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 release candidates are available for download

Right now the downloads are only available to MSDN subscribers. On Wednesday February 10th the downloads will also be available to the general public

You can find the download links here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

I went to a local MS launch event for Visual Studio today, mainly to see what was new with Team Foundation Server, but what really impressed me was some of the new architecture tools they've added. I admittedly haven't read too much about this before t…

Here is your gift from Microsoft for the holidays: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines with Sample Data. Brian Keller writes

Just in time for the holidays, we have posted a brand new virtual machine (VM) which is pre-configured with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2, and sample data that you can use to help learn the product, perform demonstrations, etc. This VM included everything you need to learn and demonstrate the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 (with the excep...