{"id":3304,"date":"2010-02-10T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/webdev\/2010\/02\/10\/visual-studio-2010-rc-public-download-available-now\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T09:16:00","slug":"visual-studio-2010-rc-public-download-available-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/visual-studio-2010-rc-public-download-available-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2010 RC public download available now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s finally here.&nbsp; Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 release candidate is available for everyone to download now.<\/p>\n<p>To download the public RC of Visual Studio 2010 go the <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=151797\">RC landing page<\/a>:&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Since the beta we&rsquo;ve been focused on performance improvements, reducing memory requirements, increasing stability and fixing customer reported bugs.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few of the tweets flying around about the RC:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"647\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"119\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadianJames\">@CanadianJames<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"526\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23vs2010\">#vs2010<\/a> is fast like ambulances flying through a school zone at 120 mph being chased by ninjas. and the ninjas are on fire!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"119\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddotterer\">@ddotterer<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"526\">Trying out VS2010 RC: Snappier UI, much faster intellisense, significant build time reduction, etc. Overall: AWESOME JOB! #vs2010 #vs2010RC <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"119\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alazlasse\">@alazlasse<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"526\">\n<p>Testing <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23VS2010\">#VS2010<\/a> RC performance: loading solution (41 projects): 28% faster, rebuild 20% faster. Smooth.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"119\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmjv\">@mmjv<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"526\">\n<p>Installed <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23VS2010\">#VS2010<\/a> RC in a vpc, performs really well, noticeably better than beta 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"119\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikasten\">@mikasten<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"526\">\n<p>VS2010 RC installed. Definitely feeling the speed improvements. <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23vs2010\">#vs2010<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"119\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malovicn\">@malovicn<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"526\">\n<p>REALLY impressed with <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23VS2010\">#VS2010<\/a> RC performance<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"119\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnMReynolds\">@JohnMReynolds<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"526\">Wow! In VS2010 RC, loading my solution takes about 5 seconds vs the 30-40 seconds it took in Beta 2!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are few of the posts covering Visual Studio 2010 RC:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out ScottGu&rsquo;s blog on VS2010 RC at&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/scottgu\/archive\/2010\/02\/08\/vs-2010-net-4-release-candidate.aspx\">http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/scottgu\/archive\/2010\/02\/08\/vs-2010-net-4-release-candidate.aspx<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Jason Zander has a great interview on VS2010 RC on Channel 9 <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/posts\/Charles\/Jason-Zander-Visual-Studio-2010-Release-Candidate\/\">https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/posts\/Charles\/Jason-Zander-Visual-Studio-2010-Release-Candidate\/<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Walkthroughs for Visual Studio 2010 RC are at <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/dd441784.aspx\">http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/dd441784.aspx<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Visual Studio 2010 RC includes a &ldquo;go live&rdquo; license.&nbsp; Jeff Beehler has a great post <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jeffbe\/archive\/2010\/02\/08\/going-live-with-the-visual-studio-2010-release-candidate.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jeffbe\/archive\/2010\/02\/08\/going-live-with-the-visual-studio-2010-release-candidate.aspx\">&ldquo;Going live&rdquo; with the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Scott&rsquo;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/scottgu\/archive\/2010\/02\/08\/vs-2010-net-4-release-candidate.aspx\">post<\/a> includes a list of known issues most notable are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Silverlight 4 support is <strong><u>not<\/u><\/strong> included in the RC release of Visual Studio 2010.&nbsp; Silverlight 4 Tooling for RC will be released with the next public release of Silverlight 4.<\/li>\n<li>Visual Studio 2010 RC ships with MVC 2 RC.&nbsp; To upgrade MVC to RC 2, just uninstall the MVC 2 runtime (not tools) and then install <a href=\"http:\/\/aspnet.codeplex.com\/Release\/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=39978\">MVC 2 RC 2<\/a> runtime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several web hosters are also gearing up to support the ASP.Net 4.0 RC release.&nbsp; Stay tuned to this site for an announcement coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>To provide feedback on the RC please visit the <a title=\"Visual Studio Connect site\" href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio?wa=wsignin1.0\">Visual Studio Connect site<\/a>.&nbsp; You can also contact the Web Tooling team directly by sending mail to <a href=\"mailto:vsweb@microsoft.com\">vsweb@microsoft.com<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s finally here.&nbsp; Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 release candidate is available for everyone to download now. To download the public RC of Visual Studio 2010 go the RC landing page:&nbsp; Since the beta we&rsquo;ve been focused on performance improvements, reducing memory requirements, increasing stability and fixing customer reported bugs. Here are just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":58792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[31,7347,7298,7355,147,7323],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aspnet","tag-asp-net","tag-asp-net-4","tag-bradleyb","tag-rc","tag-visual-studio","tag-visual-studio-2010"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It&rsquo;s finally here.&nbsp; Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 release candidate is available for everyone to download now. 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