A few weeks ago we introduced a beta of a freshly designed http://asp.net website. Today we launched it. Jon , myself, and the team that manages the site took lots of your feedback (lots from the comments of the Beta Blog Post ) and did our best to inc…
It's a big day at Microsoft today as Visual Studio 2010 officially releases. There's a lot going on with this release and I thought I'd do a big rollup post with lots of details and context to help you find your way to the information and downloads you're looking for. Download Visual Studio 2010 First, if you want it, go download Visual Studio 2010 now. If you're an MSDN Subscriber or WebSiteSpark / BizSpark member, you can download the final release now. If not, you can download a free trial or one of the free Express editions . Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional Web Install ISO (DVD-9) Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Web Install ISO (DVD-9) Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server ISO (DVD-9) I'm…(read more)
Lots of big stuff happening this week. Today Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available to MSDN Subscribers and it'll be available for everyone on Wednesday. I'm running Beta 2 on all my machines now and really digging it. It's much faster than Beta 1 and I'm doing all my work in it now. It's come a long way and I'm really impressed at the polish. .NET 4 This is a big deal. This isn't ".NET 3.6" – there are a lot of improvements of .NET 4, and it's not just "pile on a bunch of features so you get overwhelmed." I've been working with and talking to many of the teams involved and even though it's a cheesy thing to say, this is a really customer-focused release. Shouldn't every release…(read more)