The .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 is now available!

MSDN Subscribers can download it today, and it will be generally available for download on Wednesday.  More information is available at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx.  Additionally, one of the really exciting things about this Beta release is that it’s “go-live”; more information on that is available at “Going live” with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.

As part of .NET 4 Beta 2, of course, comes improved parallelism support.  In the coming days and weeks, we’ll be blogging here about some of the exciting updates and additions in this release.  Stay tuned…

In the meantime, the MSDN documentation on .NET 4’s parallelism support has been updated.  It’s a great place to start learning about all of the functionality available in this release.

• Parallel Programming in the .NET Framework
• Namespaces
• System
• System.Collections.Concurrent
• System.Linq
• System.Threading
• System.Threading.Tasks

You can also learn more about the tools in Visual Studio 2010 for parallel development in the documentation at:

• Concurrency Visualizer
• Parallel Stacks and Parallel Tasks Walkthrough

Enjoy!