Monday, May 18th, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Professional, Team Suite, Team Foundation Server) will be available to MSDN Subscribers through MSDN Subscriber Downloads and to the general public on Wednesday, May 20th through Microsoft Downloads.

Today, Microsoft made available for download the Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 1.  Microsoft encourages customers and partners to download and evaluate the Beta, which ultimately results in changes and improvements to the final product.

Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 represents a substantial amount of the functionality that will be in the final shipping version of the products.  Later this year, Microsoft will share more details about the coming version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework.