Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2!

There were a lot of Microsoft announcements that happened yesterday! Many of these happened during Steve Ballmer’s keynote at the SharePoint Developers Conference (Video, Twitter). Here is the list:

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and compatible versions of IronRuby/IronPython
• Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (Keynote, Dev Center)
• New Visual Studio logo and brand (blue & purple infinity sign)
• Visual Studio 2010 SKU Simplification to Professional, Premium, Ultimate
• MSDN.com website refresh
• Visual Studio 2010 Launch date on 3/22/2010

MSDN subscribers can download Beta 2 now!  We will be opening up Beta 2 for everyone to download starting this Wednesday.

In honor of VS 2010 Beta 2, we have a lot of great content prepared. The following MSDN page aggregates our VB 2010 content.

• Visual Basic 2010 Resources

We hope you will enjoy trying out the next release! We definitely look forward to hearing your feedback. Here are some places where you can contact us:

• For Questions: Visual Basic Forums
• For Bugs: Microsoft Connect
• For General Observations or Comments: In the Comments to this Blog

Thanks!
Lisa