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Visual Studio 2010 is out. Currently its beta but its supposed to have lots of new features. Some of them are:

• Clear UI Organization
• Reduced clutter and complexity
• Improved editor
• Better support for floating documents and windows
• Enhanced document targeting
• Focused animations for action feedback

• IDE support for parallel programming
• Native C++ libraries that use lambda functions and align well with STL
• Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework offers support for imperative data and task parallelism, declarative data parallelism, and more
• Resource management of the multicore hardware and task scheduling enabled by Concurrency Runtime
• Parallel debugging windows and profiling views

• A high-performance and standards-compliant JavaScript IntelliSense® engine
• "One Click Deployment" that quickly publishes files and configuration settings from development machines to the final deployed site
• Full support for Silverlightâ„¢ for cutting-edge, rich Internet applications

more details can be found on the MSVS 2010 product page

Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP

• Computer that has a 1.6GHz or faster processor
• Visual Studio 2010 can be installed on the following operating systems:
  • Windows Vista (x86 or x64), all editions except Starter Edition
  • Windows XP (x86 or x64), Service Pack 2 or later, all editions except Starter Edition
  • Windows Server 2003 (x86 or x64), Service Pack 1 or later, all editions
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 or later (x86 or x64), all editions
  • Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64) or later (all editions)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 RC (x64) Enterprise Edition
  • Windows 7 RC (x86 and x64) Ultimate Edition
• 1024MB RAM
• 3GB of available hard disk space
• 5400 RPM hard disk drive
• DirectX 9-capable video card that runs at 1280 x 1024 or higher display resolution

If you are installing keep in mind its still not a final product, so only use it for testing purposes. Also if you are installing this on Windows 7 there will be a compatibility issue. Click here for the solution

In addition they have also released .NET framework 4 (beta) as well. See below for download links

::Download::

Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 (1121MB)

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 (1213MB)

Visual Studio 2010 datasheet (PDF)

Microsoft .NET Framework Beta 1

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