Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet

Hey folks, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available for the world to download and here's your cheat sheet of links you'll want to know about

• Download: Visual Studio Team System Beta 1, Web installer, VSTS Beta 1 ISO, .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 
• Readme: VSTS Readme
• Installation Tips & Tricks:  Be sure to watch Brian Keller's 10-4 episode on how to download & install VSTS Beta 1 
• Key Features: If you want to see what features are available in Beta 1, check out Jason Zander's VS Beta 1 blog post for tons of screenshots or watch previous episodes of the 10-4 Show on Channel 9 for everything you ever wanted to know about VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0.
• Support Forums: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1
• Bug Reporting and Suggestions: Visual Studio 2010 on Connect
• Training Materials: Drew and team have posted the Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit that works with VSTS Beta 1. This includes coverage of:
  • New language features including VB, C#, F#,
  • .NET Framework features like: Parallel extensions, MEF, WPF, WCF
  • Data features: Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services
  • Web development with ASP.NET 4.0

Top Two Installation Questions 

Q. Will it work side-by-side with VS 2008?
A: Yes, Visual Studio 2010 will work side-by-side with VS 2008

Q: Will it work on Windows 7?
A: While installing on Windows 7 Beta is not a recommended scenario, installing on Windows 7 RC is a tested scenario.

One thing to remember is that VS 2010 is not feature complete and hasn't been optimized for performance. While the move to a WPF-based editor is pretty sweet, there are some scenarios where you may feel a little bit of latency with your commands.  You'll see perf improvements on this over time.

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 20, 2009
  awesome , iv been wating ..love to use anything on Windows7 .. microsoft is awesome

• Anonymous
  May 20, 2009
  "and hasn't been optimized for performance" which VS has?

• Anonymous
  May 20, 2009
  Nice to see all the informations about VS2010 on one place. Thank you.

• Anonymous
  May 20, 2009
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• Anonymous
  May 20, 2009
  Very thankful dear sir                   post lestest news IT                                  Visual stdio 2010

• Anonymous
  May 20, 2009
  gr8 man it's really amazing and very easy to use

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  when is it coming onto the market for use?

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  Thats really cool... I was waiting for this since long time!!

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  i hope to develop framework to be little size becouse i have problem with my applications size i like vs.net very much and thanks for microsoft about these great tools

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  your .net 4.0 link is the read me file...  might want to update that.

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  @Al - Good catch, it should have been to - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ee2118cc-51cd-46ad-ab17-af6fff7538c9&displaylang=en I've updated the link in the original post

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  yeah, its a great news for me, I am waiting for a long time.

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  yeah, its a great news for me, I am waiting for a long time.

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  MSDN has a page devoted to explaining all the new ASP.NET features, with links to documents that explore them in more detail. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s57a598e(vs.100).aspx

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  Hey, what's that there? When you hit F1 or go to the Help menu and select Visual Studio Product Documentation,

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  Thank you for submitting this cool story - Trackback from DotNetShoutout

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  Microsoft finally launched its much anticipated Beta for Visual Studio 2010 . Downloaders can test VS

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  Will this provide a solution for printing with compact frame work, on mobile device? or is there no changes there. Thanks in advance

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  Hats off to Microsoft for releasing VSTS2010, i m eagerly waiting to learn this VS asap.. Thanks :)

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2009
  Is our project develop in VS2005 can be run in VS2010 without any problem. Please provide instant convertion for VS2005 to VS2010.

• Anonymous
  May 22, 2009
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• Anonymous
  May 22, 2009
  This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the top developer news, including: - Visual Studio 2010

• Anonymous
  May 23, 2009
  It doesnt look nice to have so many versions of MS framework, it wouldnt be nice to have to install the 4 versions of it ('cause they dont have backwards compatibility) if I have 4 apps developed with each. Id prefer to have just one updatable framework, just as java does.

• Anonymous
  May 25, 2009
  vs 2008 is not very good for support xaml. Wish 2010 works better. But I won't try the beta version.

• Anonymous
  May 25, 2009
  Hi, This is a very nice post. Lots of helpful links. Thanks, Thani

• Anonymous
  May 26, 2009
  woei. Visual Studio 10 will save my day