VS2010 RC now available on MSDN Subscribers Download. General availably coming tomorrow (February 10th)

Somasegar's WebLog - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate now available

“Today, we are making available the Release Candidate (RC) for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 to all MSDN subscribers.  The RC will be made available to the world on Wednesday, February 10th. The RC includes a go-live license for people who want to deploy in their production environment.

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Jason Zander's WebLog - Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC)

“Today I’m pleased to announce we have shipped the RC for Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4!  MSDN subscribers can download the bits immediately from this location.  The RC will be made available to the public on Wednesday February 10.

We got a lot of invaluable feedback on Beta 2 through Connect as well as your survey responses.  In particular many of you pointed out areas of performance where we were not at parity with VS2008 and it was impacting your ability to adopt the product.  Some of those areas of feedback included general UI responsiveness (including painting, menus, remote desktop and VMs), editing (typing, scrolling, and Intelisense), designers (Silverlight and WPF in particular), improved memory usage, debugging (stepping, managed / native interop), build times, and solution/project load.

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MSDN - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate

 

Awesome! I’m looking forward to getting home and trying this on my PDC Acer (since VS2010 B2 was… um… “interesting” to use on it ;)

 

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