Visual Studio 2010 and NET 4 Release Date Known

The product launch for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 is settled for March 22, 2010; as mentioned in Microsoft’s press release for the Beta 2.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2

The Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 is out there, since last week. MSDN subscribers can download it here.

This release concentrates mainly on performance, stability, and feature set integration. It also includes some new capabilities and improvements. The next release is expected to be the release candidate.

For further details see Scott Guthrie's post.

VisualStudio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 1

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 is now available for download from this page.

Training Kit for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4

Microsoft made available a Training Kit to help use the features of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0.

It covers a variety of framework technologies, including:

• C# 4.0
• Visual Basic 10
• F#
• Parallel Computing Platform
• WCF
• WF
• WPF
• ASP.NET AJAX 4.0
• ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Data

The kit have presentations, hands-on labs, and demos and can be downloaded here.

Microsoft previously made available a pre-release version of this software.

BizTalk Server 2009 Public Beta available

I was just signaled on the recent release of a public beta of BizTalk Server 2009! This is the first preview of the road map announced in September 2008.

It is said the bits are feature-complete; showing support for the latest Microsoft technologies, including:

• Windows Server 2008,
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1,
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and
• The .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.

It also delivers new connectivity options including:

• New integration with Oracle’s E-Business Suite,
• Updated support for the most recent versions of IBM’s:
  • Customer Information Control System (CICS),
  • Information Management System (IMS),
  • DB2, DB2/400, DB2 Universal Database and
  • WebSphere MQ.

It will be interesting to confirm their claims for:

• Improved scalability and reliability; with support for SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
• Interoperability with Team Foundation Server (TFS).

VisualStudio 2010 and .NET 4 CTP

Microsoft made available a VPC with an installed pre-release (CTP) version of VisualStudio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. It can be downloaded here.

Extra details about about the release can be found here.

Training Kits for VS2008, .NET 3.5 and SP1

I just found this two sets of training material over the last technologies released in the Microsoft platform. It includes good presentations, hands-on labs, and demos.

• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit. This covers VS 2008 features, LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management.
• .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit. This covers ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX History, ASP.NET Routing, ADO.NET Data Services, ADO.NET Entity Framework, WCF 3.5 SP1, and the .NET Framework Client Profile.

Rosario is got a name... Visual Studio 2010

I just learned Microsoft announced official product names for the next versions of Visual Studio and the .NET framework. "Rosario" will become Visual Studio 2010, and the framework will indeed be .NET 4!

They emphasized their goal of making of Visual Studio an application life-cycle management (ALM) system. They also announced they will merge the Developer and Database editions. They will even do that for VS2005 and VS2008 as well.

NOTE: I'll be retagging old Rosario posts as VS2010.