Today I’m pleased to announce we have shipped the RC for Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4! MSDN subscribers can download the bits immediately from this location. The RC will be made available to the public on Wednesday February 10.
We got a lot of invaluable feedback on Beta 2 through Connect as well as your survey responses. In particular many of you pointed out areas of performance where we were not at parity with VS2008 and it was impacting your ability to adopt the product. Some of those areas of feedback included general UI responsiveness (including painting, menus, remote desktop and VMs), editing (typing, scrolling, and Intelisense), designers (Silverlight and WPF in particular), improved memory usage, debugging (stepping, managed / native interop), build times, and solution/project load.
Since then Brian and I have been doing daily stand up meetings with the team working through the feedback. We’ve conducted several private CTP’s with people who reported issues in order to validate the direction of the work. In December we made the hard call to extend the Beta 2 period to continue to drive improvements into the product. I had a chance to discuss the things we found and the work we did with the Channel 9 guys:
Jason Zander- Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Released- 23 minutes, 7 seconds
http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/1/3/9/5/2/5/JasonZanderVS2010RC_ch9.wmv
DOWNLOAD: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx
[taken from Jason Zander’s blog]
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