Monday, October 27, 2008

VSTS 2010 and .Net 4 CTP VPC now available for download

Microsoft Downloads - Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

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Version:CTP
Date Published:10/26/2008
Language:English
Download Size:353.3 MB - 7353.3 MB*


Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Designed to address the latest needs of developers, Visual Studio delivers key innovations in the following pillars:

Democratizing Application Lifecycle Management
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) crosses many roles within an organization and traditionally not every one of the roles has been an equal player in the process. Visual Studio Team System 2010 continues to build the platform for functional equality and shared commitment across an organization’s ALM process.

Enabling emerging trends
Every year the industry develops new technologies and new trends. With Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0, Microsoft delivers tooling and framework support for the latest innovations in application architecture, development and deployment.

Inspiring developer delight
Ever since the first release of Visual Studio, Microsoft has set the bar for developer productivity and flexibility. Visual Studio 2010 continues to deliver on the core developer experience by significantly improving upon it for roles involved with the software development process. .NET Framework 4.0 contains numerous improvements that make it easier to develop powerful and compelling applications.

Riding the next generation platform wave
Microsoft continues to invest in the market leading operating system, productivity application and server platforms to deliver increased customer value in these offerings. With Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 customers will have the tooling support and the platform support needed to create amazing solutions around these technologies.

For more information on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/products/cc948977.aspx

This CTP release is available in English only as a Virtual PC image. …

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You’ll get this this before me as I won’t get to be able to download until tonight or later this week (but I believe this will be on the PDC “Goods” HD so I won’t have to download it, so I should get it tomorrow… ;)

(via MicrosoftVSTS Tweat -> Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP Feedback)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey the link stopped working this morning.

"...The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP Download is temporarily unavailable, thank you for your patience while we work on restoring the Download. If you have any questions, you can email us at ddcfadm@microsoft.com...."

taken from https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/content/content.aspx?ContentID=9790

Greg said...

Yep, it looks like it's down.

Thanks for the heads up...

Just Josh said...

Is there any way to get a current (unexpired) CTP? I came late to this party.

Greg said...

Yep. You can actually use this one... with tweaks.

Check out this 10-4 episode for details on how to do this, 10-4 Episode 1: Working with the Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC

Hope this helps,
Greg