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New betas of Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4 E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Microsoft has released Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to MSDN subscribers. The company also announced a simplification of the Visual Studio 2010 line.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers, and will be open to all comers on October 22.

Enhancements delivered in Beta 2 include new testing options, support for a wider range of application types in the IDE, drag-and-drop bindings for Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation, and support for additional technologies including the ASP.NET model view controller.

Also new is .NET Framework 4 Beta 2, which has the same availability as the Visual Studio beta.

Enhancements include significant reductions in deployment size, inclusion of the Dynamic Language Runtime, support for side-by-side installation with .NET Framework 3.5 (to ensure backward compatibility), and support for  features such as parallel programming and service-oriented applications).

Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 are scheduled for release on March 22, 2010.

The betas can be downloaded here.

Please read on for information about the changes to Visual Studio licensing.



 
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