{"id":55971,"date":"2009-10-19T11:50:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T11:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/pfxteam\/2009\/10\/19\/net-4-beta-2-is-here\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T11:50:05","slug":"net-4-beta-2-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/net-4-beta-2-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":".NET 4 Beta 2 is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 is now available! <\/p>\n<p>MSDN Subscribers can download it today, and it will be generally available for download on Wednesday.&nbsp; More information is available at <a title=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/dd582936.aspx\" href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/dd582936.aspx\">https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/dd582936.aspx<\/a>.&nbsp; Additionally, one of the really exciting things about this Beta release is that it&rsquo;s &ldquo;go-live&rdquo;; more information on that is available at <a title=\"&ldquo;Going live&rdquo; with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jeffbe\/archive\/2009\/10\/19\/going-live-with-visual-studio-2010-beta-2.aspx\">&ldquo;Going live&rdquo; with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of .NET 4 Beta 2, of course, comes improved parallelism support.&nbsp; In the coming days and weeks, we&rsquo;ll be blogging here about some of the exciting updates and additions in this release.&nbsp; Stay tuned&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the MSDN documentation on .NET 4&rsquo;s parallelism support has been updated.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s a great place to start learning about all of the functionality available in this release.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd460693(VS.100).aspx\">Parallel Programming in the .NET Framework<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Namespaces<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/system(VS.100).aspx\">System<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/system.collections.concurrent(VS.100).aspx\">System.Collections.Concurrent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/system.linq(VS.100).aspx\">System.Linq<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/system.threading(VS.100).aspx\">System.Threading<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/system.threading.tasks(VS.100).aspx\">System.Threading.Tasks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also learn more about the tools in Visual Studio 2010 for parallel development in the documentation at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd537632(VS.100).aspx\">Concurrency Visualizer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd554943(VS.100).aspx\">Parallel Stacks and Parallel Tasks Walkthrough<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 is now available! 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