Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Now Available!

If you haven’t read the news on other notable MSDN blogs, I’m pleased to announce that the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidates are now available for download! Currently the downloads are only available to MSDN subscribers, but they will be released to the public this Wednesday, February 10th. This release includes a “go-live” license for users who want to use VS in a production environment.

As always, we’re really excited to hear feedback about this release – we’ve come a long way since Beta 2 in overall product performance and stability. Please make sure to send us your feedback via Connect or post comments to this blog. RTM is just around the corner and we want you to tell us that VS 2010 is ready!

Download and enjoy!

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Weston Hutchins – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2005 and have been working in Visual Studio ever since. I’m currently a PM on the VS Shell IDE team and work on the core IDE UI and services as well as the Extension Manager and http://visualstudiogallery.com integration. Prior to my current duties, I was the SKU manager for the Visual Studio Express products.

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