Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 & .NET 4.0 Beta 1 Released to MSDN Subscribers

Wow that’s a big title, but with an even bigger announcement, both Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 has been released to MSDN subscribers Monday with public release due Wednesday (links at bottom), read on for further blog links or visit the official Microsoft launch site. (In Australia that’s today, so perhaps late tonight or tomorrow we can expect!)

Loads of awesome new features including the VS interface re-written in WPF, enhanced support for Test Driven Development (TDD), Shell/Editor enhancements, new capabilities for management for the “Application Lifecycle”, the very impressive VS 2010 “Test & Lab Manager” (video here, summarised here), Parallel programming support, more databases, cloud development support plus loads more for a team or sole developer…

Scott Hanselman’s feature round-up (some of which will be repeated):

New Shell, new File|New, new Extensions Manager

Lots of focus on “Code First” (TDD-friendly, etc)

Office and COM Interop that is actually fun to do.

Automatic Properties for VB, no more “_” for multi-line, inline subs, collection initializers

C# gets the dynamic keyword

F# is included out of the box

WPF Databinding in the Designer

Silverlight included out of the box

Piles of HTML Snippets for non-designer people

Better JavaScript Intellisense

MSBuild for C++

UML for VS Team Architecture

TFS Branch and Changeset visualizers

Parallel computing

Workflow speedup, new designer

SharePoint tooling

One of the most comprehensive blog posts complete with screenshots can be found here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/05/18/announcing-vs2010-net-framework-4-0-beta-1.aspx

An example of what to expect, file size wise on public release and for MSDN subscriptions right now:

Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 (x86) – DVD (English)
Size: 1,164.30 (MB)

Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugger Beta 1 (x64) – (English)
Size: 8.27 (MB)

Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugger Beta 1 (x86) – (English)
Size: 4.05 (MB)

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1 (x86 and x64) – DVD (English)
Size: 2,272.80 (MB)

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Suite Beta 1 (x86) – DVD (English)
Size: 1,258.76 (MB)

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Test Load Agent Beta 1 (x86) – (English)
Size: 181.59 (MB)

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Test Load Controller Beta 1 (x86) – (English)
Size: 584.97 (MB)

These links will be LIVE Weds at 10am PST (source: hanselman.com)

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