Microsoft announced today the immediate availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to MSDN subscribers; general availability will follow on Oct. 21.
New testing options in Visual Studio 2010 will help ensure quality code. Enhancements to the integrated development environment mean that whether modeling, coding, testing or debugging, developers can use existing skills to deploy a growing number of application types. Built-in tools for Windows 7 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, new drag and drop bindings for Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation, and interoperability with innovative technologies (such as those for the database, ASP.NET model view controller, unified modeling language, Expression, and multicore) allow developers to bring their visions to life.
On Monday, May 18th, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Professional, Suite and Team Foundation Server) will be available to MSDN Subscribers through MSDN Subscriber Downloads and to the general public on Wednesday, May 20th through Microsoft Downloads.
As Ray Ozzie was announcing yesterday during the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles, Windows Azure and all its related technologies will evolve in the coming months, but you can start previewing all these technologies creating applications directly from Visual Studio 2008.
With Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft is making easier for developers to build, debug, test and deploy application for the Azure cloud platform. These tools include a local cloud environment that runs inside the developer machine.