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.
Thank you for all the feedback you’ve sent our way so far. The goal of this RC is to get more feedback from you and ensure we’ve addressed the performance issues in the product. We have made significant performance improvements specifically as it relates to loading solutions, typing, building and debugging.
I encourage you to download the RC and let us know what you think. For more information on the RC, check out Jason Zander's blog.
Namaste!
Comments
Anonymous
February 08, 2010
Hello, any idea when silverlight 4 will be supported in the Visual Studio 2010 RC? I really want to upgrade to the RC version, but I'm working on a silverligh4 project with RIA services. Hope it will be soon.Anonymous
February 08, 2010
What?! No silverlight 4 support in the RC?!Anonymous
February 08, 2010
"Silverlight 3 projects are supported with today’s VS 2010 RC build – however Silverlight 4 projects are not yet supported. We will be adding VS 2010 RC support for SL4 with the next public Silverlight 4 drop. If you are doing active Silverlight 4 development today we recommend staying with the VS10 Beta 2 build for now. " http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/02/08/vs-2010-net-4-release-candidate.aspxAnonymous
February 09, 2010
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February 09, 2010
How much do we owe to Rico Mariani for this speed improvement?Anonymous
February 09, 2010
I hope the delay in SL4 (and VS.NET 2010's support of it) has something to do with being able to develop Win 7 mobile applications with Silverlight! Nevertheless, being unable to: (a) deliver SL4 RC after a quick and solid beta on time for VS.NET 2010 RC (b) deliver SL4 support in this RC of VS.NET 2010 (c) provide further insights or estimates on when we can expect the above are clear disappointments!Anonymous
February 09, 2010
Still waiting for the public RC. Wednesday the 10th has already begone a while ago :OAnonymous
February 09, 2010
MS VS.net web site still shows Beta 2!!! Pl update the page to RC.Anonymous
February 09, 2010
Like Leon, still waiting for the public RC. It's Wednesday the 10th even in Redmond.Anonymous
February 10, 2010
What time will this be up?Anonymous
February 10, 2010
The VS 2010 and .NET 4 RC bits are available now. You can donwload from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx. -somasegarAnonymous
February 10, 2010
Is the Entity Framework v4.0 designers etc. included as part of this release candidate or is a separate download and install required ?Anonymous
February 10, 2010
There has been a number of questions around SL4 support and VS 2010 RC. The team is working on an update to Silverlight tools that works with VS 2010 RC and SL4 Beta. We are looking to provide that update sometime in the next month or so. -somasegarAnonymous
February 10, 2010
Still no support for Windows Mobile development?Anonymous
February 10, 2010
Hi Alex, Stay tuned for tools to support Windows Mobile development. The team is working on this and we will able to talk about this in the near future. -somasegarAnonymous
February 10, 2010
@ Joel: Yes EF4 and the designer are part of the RC. No separate d/l is required. -TimAnonymous
February 10, 2010
Nice and speedy environment! We have also installed Team Foundation Server 2010 Release Candidate for a pilot project, and are anxiously awaiting Conchango's updated Scrum templates -- although the MSF for Agile 5 templates come close. Thanks guys!!Anonymous
February 10, 2010
Gongrats to all involved as the ability to respond to our feedback saved the product. Bigtime improvment. I can now edit WPF on my 6 year old hp. Way to go! Love it. it is fast too!Anonymous
February 11, 2010
This final version of MSDN Help without indexes and tree contents?Anonymous
February 12, 2010
Sergey, the keyword index feature did not make it into the final release of Help Viewer. However, this functionality will be delivered as a Power Tool thirty days after Visual Studio 2010 releases. For more information, see: http://blogs.msdn.com/kwolk/. Polita Paulus Developer Division MicrosoftAnonymous
February 15, 2010
Guys, This is an educated guess but:
- look for Silverlight 4 RC/Beta 2 to be out during MIX 2010
- look for Windows Mobile 7 SDK to be out during MIX 2010
- I would also guess maybe support for WCF RIA Services as well in that timeframe. Visual Studio 2010 RTM is only w months away :)
Anonymous
February 15, 2010
Several of you have reported an issue related to MultiTouch Intellisense crash. We have a hotfix for this issue that you can pick up at: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=26662 Thanks for all the feedback so far. -somasegarAnonymous
February 16, 2010
Pl update MS Dreamspark link for VS2010 RCAnonymous
February 17, 2010
@Kavi The link above works for everyone now that the VS 2010 RC is public - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx Scott NonnenbergAnonymous
February 17, 2010
I will have to say without a doubt Visual Studio is the WORST - most unproductive development tool I have ever used. I truly believed nothing could be worse then VISTA however Microsoft has managed to out do itself. The UI designer for webform is nothing short of BRUTUAL to use. There are so many features missing and most of which are implemented are buggy at best and MVC there isn't a designer and requires a phonebook full for code even for small websites. EDM are you really serious I understand why petitions are on the NET about this mapper. Everyone at Microsoft SHOULD BE embarrassed by this software tool including SCOTT GU and with all due respect yourself as well SOMA. The KB and the INTERNET is full of bug reports and issues regardless of what comments I post to evidence just how bad this software is. You guys have totally lost touch with developers and living in a dream world of new technology instead of taking you have and making it useful to us in the field. For everyone raving about VS you guys have obviously NEVER used any other software development toolkit before.Anonymous
March 03, 2010
I want to know when the VS support OSGI ?Anonymous
March 03, 2010
Is it "safe" to install the 2010 RC on a production development workstation? I'm not sure what the Go Live license means in this case. Generally we never install beta software on our production development workstations, but if there is a guarantee it won't interfere with VS 2008 etc., and we are guaranteed to be able to successfully upgrade to the RTM version, then we may just do it. Otherwise its Virtual PC time.Anonymous
March 17, 2010
Hello, It is possible to add ADO databases classes such as CADODatabase, CADORecordset,CADOConnection, CADOCommand,etc to the MFC. I have some projects that use the DAO MFC classes and I wish to migrate them to ADO because I want to take advantage of ADO multithreading support. It would be fine if VS2010 MFC classes has ADO support as well and is something that I have been looking in VS 2010. Thanks MarcelAnonymous
March 30, 2010
I do not believe MFC has a wrapper around ADO as it does over ODBC. Since ADO is COM/Object based, it should be straightforward to use ADO directly together with MFC. If you do a comparison of DAO vs. ADO classes, you will find that they are very similar. -Ricky