{"id":1513,"date":"2009-10-19T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/2009\/10\/19\/visual-studio-2010-beta-2-announcements\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T15:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T22:06:53","slug":"visual-studio-2010-beta-2-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/visual-studio-2010-beta-2-announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2010 \u2013 Beta 2 : Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in\" class=\"MsoListParagraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: Symbol\"><span>&middot;<span style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span>&lt;![endif]&gt;<b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\"> <b>availability <\/b>&ndash; The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 will be available to MSDN subscribers on Monday, October 19<sup>th<\/sup>, with general availability on October 21<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>![if&gt;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: normal\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"color: black\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height: normal\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"color: black\">Download:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: black\"><span> <\/span>Please visit <\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=151797\"><span>Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #262626\"> <\/span><span>site to download the Beta, submit feedback, go to forums, and find more information about the Beta.<span style=\"color: #262626\"> &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span> <\/span><span>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: Symbol\"><span>&middot;<span style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span>&lt;![endif]&gt;<b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">Launch date for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\"> &ndash; The official launch of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is March 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, 2010.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>![if&gt;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: Symbol\"><span>&middot;<span style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span>&lt;![endif]&gt;<b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">Visual Studio 2010<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\"> <b>pricing, licensing and packaging details <\/b>&ndash; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">Microsoft is announcing a new packaging lineup and licensing options for MSDN and Visual Studio 2010, including the &ldquo;Ultimate Offer.&rdquo;<span> <\/span>For more information on the new packaging, licensing, and pricing of Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN, <span class=\"GramE\">visit<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft.com\/visualstudio\">http:\/\/microsoft.com\/visualstudio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>![if&gt;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -.25in\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: Symbol\"><span>&middot;<span style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span>&lt;![endif]&gt;<b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">MSDN redesign, Microsoft&rsquo;s premier developer network<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\"> &ndash; 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The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 will be available to MSDN subscribers on Monday, October 19th, with general availability on October 21st. ![if&gt; &nbsp; Download: Please visit Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta site to download [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":58792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[685],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dotnet"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;![endif]&gt;Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 availability &ndash; The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 will be available to MSDN subscribers on Monday, October 19th, with general availability on October 21st. ![if&gt; &nbsp; Download: Please visit Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta site to download [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}