Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Now Out

Generally I avoid betas because of the hassle of having to remove them when the final version comes out. I will make an exception with this as Visual Studio 2010 is shaping up to be a pretty big release and I believe that Silverlight object editing is in this beta.

Visual Studio 2010 is a WPF application for one thing which means zoomable, nicer looking windows. According to the Chief Architect Rico Mariani, performance has been enhanced enormously by getting rid of a lot of the old single threaded code and a new editor that is much faster. Also the help system (which I thought was not brilliant is VS 2008) has been totally revamped.

The release date for the full VS 2010 is March 22 2010. If you are a MSDN subscriber you can download the beta 2 now and non MSDN can download it today or tomorrow from the same link. There is a lot of information on the Beta 2 home page.