All the great stuff you've been reading about for the past few days is now available for you to try out. Check out: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=151797 Brian
There’s going to be a ton of content coming out over the next few days and weeks to help you understand what all is in the 2010 release and how to get started with it. One great source of information is Channel 9. Brian has already put up one new video on installing and getting started with the Beta: https://channel9.msdn.c...
The big news, along with the announcement of VS 2010 Beta 2 availability, are all the licensing changes that go along with it. I won’t go into all of them here because it’s pretty long. I just want to communicate the philosophy and the high points. Our pre-sales web sites will have more detailed information for you. Ov...
I've been feeling bad about leaving my blog untended for a while. Finally this morning I went and looked and realized it's been over a month since my last post and I haven't written many all summer. It's been very busy both at home and at work. We shipped VS/VSTS/TFS 2010 Beta 1 back in May. Right after that we had a DCR push (Des...
I've been feeling bad about leaving my blog untended for a while. Finally this morning I went and looked and realized it's been over a month since my last post and I haven't written many all summer. It's been very busy both at home and at work. We shipped VS/VSTS/TFS 2010 Beta 1 back in May. Right after that we had a DCR push (Des...
Last week we announced the availability of Silverlight 3 and a release candidate (and imminent release) of Expression Blend 3. Quite a while ago, I mentioned that Blend 3 would include TFS version control integration so that designers can easily participate in the team workflow. It is here! Ed Hintz included a screenshot in his po...
On Monday we released Beta 1 for MSDN subscribers. Today at 10am PDT, we are making it available to anyone who wants to download it. We’re excited to reach this big milestone in the journey of shipping 2010 and we’re eagerly anticipating your feedback. The blogosphere is full of posts about the release. You can read ab...
As with every Beta release, there are a set of gotchas that you have to look out for when installing. My primary guidance is to read the readme file. Lots of stuff we know about is in there. I'll call out a few things here as I see them become stumbling blocks for people. I'll append to this post as I learn more. Installing ...
Today at 10:00am PST, the Beta 1 download for Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio Team System 2010 and .NET 4.0 is available to MSDN subscribers. It will be available to the general public on Wednesday. MSDN subscribers can download it from the MSDN subscriber download site using this link. I’ll post the public links for non-M...
I don't usually blog about QFE availability but this is one that has annoyed me personally over the past 6 months or so and I wanted to share it. I'm told there have been over 50,000 reports of it through Dr. Watson. I'm glad we were able to get a fix out. A fix for a widely reported crash in the Visual Studio 2008 IDE is now available....
