{"id":1053,"date":"2009-10-20T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2009\/10\/20\/announcing-visual-studio-2010-beta-2\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:42:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:42:52","slug":"announcing-visual-studio-2010-beta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/announcing-visual-studio-2010-beta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were a lot of Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2009\/oct09\/10-19vsfinalstretchpr.mspx\">announcements<\/a> that happened yesterday! Many of these happened during Steve Ballmer&rsquo;s keynote at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mssharepointconference.com\/pages\/default.aspx\">SharePoint Developers Conference<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mssharepointconference.com\/pages\/default.aspx\">Video<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23SPC09\">Twitter<\/a>). Here is the list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=151797\">Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2<\/a> and compatible versions of <a href=\"http:\/\/ironruby.codeplex.com\/Release\/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=33305\">IronRuby<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/ironpython.codeplex.com\/Release\/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=28125\">IronPython<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mssharepointconference.com\/pages\/default.aspx\">Keynote<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/default.aspx\">Dev Center<\/a>) <\/li>\n<li>New Visual Studio logo and brand (blue &amp; purple infinity sign) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/en-us\/products\/2010\/default.mspx#compare\">Visual Studio 2010 SKU Simplification to Professional, Premium, Ultimate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.com\/\">MSDN.com website refresh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/somasegar\/archive\/2009\/10\/19\/announcing-visual-studio-2010-and-net-fx-4-beta-2.aspx\">Visual Studio 2010 Launch date on 3\/22\/2010<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MSDN subscribers can <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=151797\">download Beta 2<\/a> now!&nbsp; We will be opening up Beta 2 for everyone to download starting this Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>In honor of VS 2010 Beta 2, we have a lot of great content prepared. The following MSDN page aggregates our VB 2010 content.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vbasic\/dd819153.aspx\">Visual Basic 2010 Resources<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We hope you will enjoy trying out the next release! We definitely look forward to hearing your feedback. Here are some places where you can contact us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>For Questions:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/category\/visualbasic\">Visual Basic Forums<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>For Bugs<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft Connect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>For General Observations or Comments:<\/strong> In the Comments to this Blog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks! <br \/>Lisa<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterHeaderFooter\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a lot of Microsoft announcements that happened yesterday! Many of these happened during Steve Ballmer&rsquo;s keynote at the SharePoint Developers Conference (Video, Twitter). Here is the list: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and compatible versions of IronRuby\/IronPython Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (Keynote, Dev Center) New Visual Studio logo and brand (blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[95,167],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-basic","tag-lisa-feigenbaum","tag-vb2010"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>There were a lot of Microsoft announcements that happened yesterday! Many of these happened during Steve Ballmer&rsquo;s keynote at the SharePoint Developers Conference (Video, Twitter). 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