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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.
Since then Brian and I have been doing daily stand up meetings with the team working through the feedback. We’ve conducted several private CTP’s with people who reported issues in order to validate the direction of the work. In December we made the hard call to extend the Beta 2 period to continue to drive improvements into the product. I had a chance to discuss the things we found and the work we did with the Channel 9 guys:
At this point we have sought out and tested all the projects we could lay our hands on. We’re making the RC build widely available so you can try it out with your projects as well. You can report your feedback through our survey site and any issues through Connect:
In addition to taking any final feedback from you, we are working closely with 3rd party companies that have popular Visual Studio add-ins (such as Resharper, CodeRush, Whole Tomato, etc) to make sure the environment works well. We’ve still got more work to do here but are making great progress.
Let us know what you think!
Wow great.
I always loved VS 2010 Beta 2 and will be testing this RC
Still there is no IronPython support(Everyone needs it).
Is there a table somewhere which describes the feature differences between the Visual Studio 2010 Express editions and the Professional/Premium/Ultimate editions? What about the features that used to be present in Standard but not in Professional - have these all migrated to Express (with the obvious exception of smart device development)?
Apologies in advance if the answer to this question is obvious and I somehow missed it.
Expecting Feb 10th to happen immediatly for downloading and trying out RC VS2010. Kudos to VS team, I hope the memory issues are resolved, and we dont' want yet another Vista version in VS, else no IT managers would dare to buy VS 2010 cos, no one wnat their Devs to spend more time for Dev due to VS perf issues.
Does the RC require complete removal of Beta 2 to install, or will the installer handle it?
As for me, I'm just hoping the frequent crashes on CSS and HTML parsing are a thing of the past :)
Congrats,
Guy
Can't wait to get my hands on RC !!!
Thanks Jason,
Cheers,
Jomit
@Guy
Thanks for trying out Visual Studio RC. You will need to uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and then install RC.
I just did it on my machine and it worked great. Feel free to let me know if you have any issues in moving to the RC.
It would be cool if Visual Studio could compile to *nix targets as well as Windows ones, but currently that still isn't possible... Nevertheless, I'll definitely try out the RC when it becomes publicly available...
Do you have any idea when Silverlight 4 will be available in Visual Studio 2010 RC? I really want to upgrade to the RC edition because of the number of crashed I have every day in the beta 2, but I can't until silverlight 4 is available.
Hopefully this release will give me some extra intellisense on XAML. Yesterday, I spent 1.5 hours trying to figure out the formatting of a command using a datagrid in VS 2008. Had there been some intellisense when I typed Command=, I would have found it instantly and not wasted time.
Hi Jason, any word on the availability of the RC version of the Express Editions? I'm creating screencasts for beginners and want to use those instead of Beta 2. Thank you!
@Bob Tabor - We do not plan to release RC versions of the Express Editions since all of the functionality is already available in the other Editions we published yesterday. We haven't made any other substantial changes to Express since Beta2. Hopefully you'll be able to make due without the Express versions until we ship final bits. Sorry for any inconvenience this might cause you.
Jeff
Yeah, so where's the 64-bit version?
FYI--
I was out at the MSDN subscriber's site and I noticed that en_.net_framework_4_client_profile_rc_x86_489530.exe and en_.net_framework_4_client_profile_rc_x86_x64_489530.exe are actually the exact same binaries.
@Brian - <<table on features>>
@Guy - I talked a lot about performance in the post, but we have also been working hard on stability. If you do see issues I want to hear about them
@Koen - VS2010 RC supports SL3 out of the box. The next SL4 drop will support the RC as well, stay tuned...
@Jason - sorry you are hitting issues. Send me details (jasonz@microsoft.com) on what you are hitting and what you expected and we'll look it.
There is a Visual Studio 2010 SDK for this RC? Are plans to?