Finally, long awaited Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate with .Net Framework 4.0 and ASP.Net 4.0 was made publically available on 10th Feb, 2010.

I downloaded and installed it successfully, and only thing I can say it is far far batter then its previous beta releases. Still i feel it is slow compared it to VS2008, but new features and new look are worth it. It took about 4 hours to uninstall Beta2, download .ISO file of about 2.5 gb and install VS2010, but process was smooth.

It has an awesome, new sober look and feel with WPF-based UI and improved focus on writing, understanding, navigating, debugging and publishing the code.

Gradually I see that Visual Studio is evolving as a platform in itself. One can complete all coding, modeling, testing, debugging, and deployment work without leaving the Visual Studio 2010 environment

New features in VS 2010

  • Breakpoint labeling and grouping
  • Parallel Stacks & Tasks Windows
  • Improved Multi-Monitor
  • Improved XAML Visual editor
  • Extensible test runner & powerful testing tools with proactive project management features
  • Azure, SharePoint & MVC Tooling
  • Intellisence for jQuery
  • New Extensible Editor allows editor to be easily extended to provide a rich and robust editing experience
  • Online Visual Studio Gallery integrated directly into Visual Studio
  • Support for 64-bit Mixed-Mode
  • and lot more…here.

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Note

I used MagicDisk to virtually mount the downloaded .ISO file.