Jason Zander: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Released - General Download Available

Posted By: Charles | Feb 8th @ 5:06 PM | 38,915 Views | 21 Comments
The Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is here! Your Beta 2 feedback has been incredibly helpful to the engineering team. A big Thank You from Visual Studio!

Here, Visual Studio General Manager Jason Zander sits down with us to discuss how the Visual Studio engineering team addressed your Beta 2 feedback and made some helpful updates to the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate. Jason even demos some of the improvements made in the VS 2010 RC — and on quite a modest PC.

Jason and his team went to great lengths to improve the overall experience of writing applications inside VS 2010. Performance. Performance. Performance... Of course, Jason and team want you to have the final word regarding whether the updates hit the mark, so please download the RC and take it for a test drive. Your feedback is critical to the VS team and they thank you, as always.
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#Feb 8th @ 4:39 PM
dot_tom
dot_tom

Awesome. I have wanted to love Dev 10, but the IDE perf and stability of Beta 2 kept getting in the way, then Windows 7 came along and set the standard for beautiful software with wonderful performance. So I've been really looking forward to this RC and hope it's the build that finally lets me uninstall Visual Studio 2008 - at least on my box at home. Kudos to the teams involved for all their hard work.

 

[Updated. Big thank you to Rico and the rest of the VS team, the performance of the RC is sweet. Visual Studio 2008 came off my laptop this morning and '2010 is my default, go-to, dev tool. Windows 7 + Visual Studio 2010, life is good!]

#Feb 8th @ 6:01 PM
PerfectPhase
PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

Is there a Silverlight 4 build to go with the RC?

#Feb 8th @ 6:04 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

You mean like SL4 RC? Smiley I don't think so....

C

#Feb 8th @ 6:08 PM
mabster
mabster

I notice that the Express editions haven't yet entered RC - the download page at http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/ still lists Beta 2. Any idea when we'll see those RCs released?

#Feb 8th @ 6:17 PM
Matthew Arkin
Matthew Arkin

Cool, I wish I could download it now, but this hard drive is on its last limbs, waiting for the new one to come. 

#Feb 8th @ 7:16 PM
smithkl42
smithkl42

Or rather, does anyone know if the current Silverlight 4 beta bits will work with the new Visual Studio 2010 RC?  I'd heard from someone inside MS that they didn't work with some of the interim builds, and about all I'm doing these days is Silverlight 4, so it'd be nice to know before I uninstall Beta 2.

#Feb 8th @ 8:04 PM
smithkl42
smithkl42

ScottGu tweeted: "Support for Silverlight 4 with the VS 2010 RC will show up with next public SL4 drop (and so is not yet enabled with today's bits)".  Next obvious question: "When will the Silverlight 4 bits get refreshed?"

#Feb 8th @ 8:33 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

Scott would undoubtedly know that answer as well Smiley Stay tuned...
C

#Feb 8th @ 9:04 PM
dot_tom
dot_tom

On the whole Silverlight 4 / .NET 4 front there is the Expression Blend 4 preview. This has been designed to work against Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 - not sure if it's good for the RC. Charles, do you know?

 

  http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/default.aspx#ServicePacksPreviews

 

 

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