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!
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.
What?! No silverlight 4 support in the RC?!
"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.aspx
Big vote of no confidence for Silverlight. Those of us who have made large strategic investments to move ahead with Silverlight probably would like a little explanation. Possibly a little reassurance. WTF?!?
How much do we owe to Rico Mariani for this speed improvement?
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!
Still waiting for the public RC. Wednesday the 10th has already begone a while ago :O
MS VS.net web site still shows Beta 2!!! Pl update the page to RC.
Like Leon, still waiting for the public RC. It's Wednesday the 10th even in Redmond.
What time will this be up?
The VS 2010 and .NET 4 RC bits are available now. You can donwload from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx.
-somasegar
Is the Entity Framework v4.0 designers etc. included as part of this release candidate or is a separate download and install required ?
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.
Still no support for Windows Mobile development?
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.