Visual Studio 2010 B2 VM’s - The virtual machines have arrived with Hyper-V, Virtual PC 2007 and Windows Virtual PC flavors

Microsoft Downloads -

Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 and Team Foundation Server® 2010 Beta 2 virtual image for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 and Team Foundation Server® 2010 Beta 2 virtual image for Windows Virtual PC
Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 and Team Foundation Server® 2010 Beta 2 for Microsoft® Virtual PC 2007 SP1 Image

“Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate simplifies solution development, lowering risk and increasing return. The virtual machine image in this download contains both Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta2 and the requisite trial software. …

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate provides an integrated environment of tools and server infrastructure that simplifies the entire application development process. Deliver business results using productive, predictable, customizable processes and increase transparency and traceability throughout the lifecycle with detailed analytics. Whether creating new solutions or enhancing existing applications unleash your creativity with powerful prototyping, architecture and development tools that let you bring your vision to life targeting an increasing number of platforms and technologies including cloud and parallel computing. Realize increased team productivity by utilizing advanced collaboration features and use integrated testing and debugging tools to find and fix bugs quickly and easily ensuring high quality solutions while driving down the cost of solution development. For more information on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/products/2010/default.mspx This virtual machine does not have anti-virus installed. It should not be connected to any network until it has anti-virus installed. In addition, the operating system and programs installed were patched with all updates as of December 10, 2009.

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Added bonus;

Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1 and Team Suite SP1 Hyper-V Image (Trial)

Visual Studio® Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1 Hyper-V Image (Trial)

 

The VM’s are large, with the VS2010 weighing in at 7.3GB, the VS2008 7.5GB and TFS2008 3.4GB. All are also broken into multi part RAR’s.

Still once downloaded and setup these are a great way to test the .Net 4/VS2010 waters without the risk of installing it. 

Update #1 @ 12/24/2009 @ 10:45 PST:
Make sure you check out Brian Keller’s Now Available: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines with Sample Data post for information about 7 Hands-on labs and tips for making the downloading of these a piece of cake…

 

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