After a release one of the most commonly pieces of information we receive requests for is simply:  “How do I get started?”.  While we don’t have a ton of new content – yet- we definitely have enough to get you going and keep you busy for a while. 

-And While everybody loves a good Easter Egg hunt I thought I would pull together some of these resources available to you:

Videos:

• Watch the Visual Studio 2010 Launch Live
• How Do I: Step with The Debugger in Visual Studio?
• How Do I: Generate and Interact with UML Sequence Diagrams?
• How Do I: Get Started with Coded UI tests?
• How Do I: Get Started with Database Unit Test?
• How Do I: Use Generate from Usage in Visual Studio 2010?
• 10-4 Episode 41: Downloading and Installing the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
• 10-4 Episode 34: Debugger Enhancements and Improvements
• Episode 28: An Introduction to the Historical Debugger (now called Intellitrace)

Labs:

• Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 2010
• Branching and Merging Visualization with Team Foundation Server 2010
• Code Discovery using the Architecture Tools in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
• Debugging with IntelliTrace using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
• Introduction to Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
• Introduction to Test Case Management with Microsoft Test Manager 2010
• Planning your Projects with Team Foundation Server 2010
• Understanding Class Coupling with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
• Using the Architecture Explorer in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to Analyze Your Code

My best advice for running these labs is to check out Brian’s blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2010/03/18/now-available-visual-studio-2010-release-candidate-virtual-machines-with-sample-data-and-hands-on-labs.aspx 

These labs can be found in the three VS2010 Virtual machines:

1. Visual Studio 2010 RC (Hyper-V)
2. Visual Studio 2010 RC (Windows [7] Virtual PC)
3. Visual Studio 2010 RC (Virtual PC 2007 SP1)

Also coming soon there will be an ALM course on Channel9 http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/VS2010/ALM/ 

Papers/articles:

• Debugging Applications with IntelliTrace
• Better Coding with Visual Studio 2010
• Add a Security Bug Bar to Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010
• Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio 2010
• Lab Management supplement for TFS RC to RTM Upgrade Guide.
• Compare the Visual Studio 2010 Versions
• Visual Studio 2010 Licensing White Paper
• The ALM Documentation

Downloads

• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010
• Team Foundation Server Power Tools 2010 Release Candidate
• Visual Studio 2010 Test Case Import Utilities
• Getting started with Silverlight 4
• Windows Phone 7 Development
• Lab Management VM Prep Tool