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

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...

I was thinking about writing a post about how C# is morphing into SQL because I noticed that C# has added named and optional arguments. Remember the Compound Operators Or How T-SQL Is Morphing Into VB Or C#? This is basically the same kind of thing only it goes into the other direction.

For some bizarre reason Chrissie had the same idea yesterday and posted the following post:

Most of you guys don't know what a spectral library is and I forgive ye. But I needed something to test this brand new thing. So I choose something I know and something I know is hard to find.

But this is all about the new VB10. So I started of by downloading the also new Windows 7 RC and VS2010 beta 1. I installed windows 7 on a Virtual machine for Virtual PC.

I already had some code for VS2008 and I used that to start. I will be uploading the whole thin gin the near future.

I will use the following frameworks.

Visual Studio 2010 has been made available to MSDN subscribers yesterday. I downloaded Visual Studio 2010 today and installed it on Windows 7 RC. I took some images so that you can see what it looks like

Here is what the setup screen looks like, nothing fancy, it is very similar to Visual Studio 2008













Here is what it looks like if you want to customize the install. As you can see F# is now part of Visual Studio 2008