The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) is now publicly available! It’s time to try out the features that you’ve been hearing about from the PDC. 🙂

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=922B4655-93D0-4476-BDA4-94CF5F8D4814&displaylang=en

Once you download the CTP, start Visual Studio and you will see a link to the CTP Walkthroughs from the Start Page. These walkthroughs are meant to guide you through the new features introduced in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. Microsoft team members are very interested to hear your feedback on these scenarios. A number of forums that have been created for you to give feedback on the CTP. The main forums for Visual Basic feedback are located here:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vs2010ctpvbcs/threads/

Finally, the central CTP feedback site is here:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/content/content.aspx?ContentID=9790

Thanks in advance for your consideration!