Dave Bost

This week I am attending php|tek and while learning how to “Get it Done” from Wez Furlong, Soma announced on his blog that Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Fx 4 (Beta 1) has shipped to the developer masses.

You can download the bits, submit feedback to the Connect site and participate in the ongoing conversations on the Beta forums. The documentation has been removed from the download for Beta 1 but you can find all of the documentation online on MSDN.

Once you kicked off the download, be sure to read What’s New in .NET Framework 4 and What’s New in Visual Studio 2010.

You can install Visual Studio 2010 side-by-side with other versions of Visual Studio or you can drop it into a virtualized machine with something like Virtual PC.

Once you have everything up and running, download the Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit to learning about the latest features and enhancements. There are also a number of walkthroughs posted highlighting some of these new features.

Enjoy!

.NET Development, ASP.NET, Announcements, Team System, Visual Studio, WPF

We just ramped up our final MSDN Unleashed events for the Summer ‘08 season, and we’re moving right into our Fall ‘08 tour. I will post dates and topics here shortly. For now, here are the slides from the Summer ‘08 season that everyone has been asking me for. Don’t forget to check out the resource roundup from these events as well.

Thanks to everyone who came this go round. Please, if you have any comments or suggestions on how we can make these events better, please leave a comment.

ADO.NET, ASP.NET, MSDN, Visual Studio