Visual Studio 10 Beta1 Available!

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The Visual Studio 10 Beta1 is generally available today from MSDN's Download Center... get it while it's hot! You can either download the Pro or TeamSystem editions.

And, in this Beta1, we're showing off some new features for the VS extender community -- namely, the Extension Manager. This feature integrates with a web service on the Visual Studio gallery to highlight extensions that can be installed in Visual Studio. Also, the New Project dialog integrates with this new feature to show you templates that are available online through Extension Manager (download and create new project from the template in just one click). For Beta 1, the extensions supported are Project/Item Templates, Packages, and Editor Extensions that are uploaded to the Gallery in our new VSIX packaging format.

 Check out JasonZ's blog for screenshots of these two items.

We also have the Visual Studio SDK Beta 1 in the pipeline (and should be posted real soon now) to let you start playing and extending the Beta.

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