{"id":653,"date":"2009-10-19T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2009\/10\/19\/visual-studio-2010-and-net-framework-4-beta-2-released\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:29:48","slug":"visual-studio-2010-and-net-framework-4-beta-2-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/visual-studio-2010-and-net-framework-4-beta-2-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/somasegar\/archive\/2009\/10\/19\/announcing-visual-studio-2010-and-net-fx-4-beta-2.aspx\">announced<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/somasegar\">Soma&rsquo;s blog<\/a> this morning, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 have been <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/dd582936.aspx\">released to MSDN Subscribers<\/a> and will be available for everyone on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Visual Studio 2010 boasts a great new user interface with better contrast and lots of UI elements that tend to add confusion to the development process. It&rsquo;s pretty amazing how getting rid of a few lines increases usability.<\/p>\n<p>For developers redistributing the .NET Framework, perhaps the best news is how much <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/pmarcu\/archive\/2009\/09\/30\/net-framework-4-0-beta-2-deployment.aspx\">smaller and faster<\/a> runtime deployment is. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/pmarcu\">Peter Marcu<\/a> also describes robustness features added to .NET Framework 4 setup such as attempting to fix common problems and retrying installation automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Check them out and <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\/content\/content.aspx?ContentID=12362\">give us your feedback<\/a> on issues you find. We also have <a href=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/category\/VSPreRelease,netdevelopmentprerelease,visualstudioprerelease,vstsprerelease\">dedicated forums<\/a> for more social interactions with both Microsoft employees and other community members.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As announced on Soma&rsquo;s blog this morning, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 have been released to MSDN Subscribers and will be available for everyone on Wednesday. Visual Studio 2010 boasts a great new user interface with better contrast and lots of UI elements that tend to add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,20,27,45,52],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-net","tag-installation","tag-news","tag-visual-studio","tag-vs2010"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>As announced on Soma&rsquo;s blog this morning, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 have been released to MSDN Subscribers and will be available for everyone on Wednesday. Visual Studio 2010 boasts a great new user interface with better contrast and lots of UI elements that tend to add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}