Visual Studio 2010 Express Beta 2 is now available!
Today, we are excited to announce that the Visual Studio 2010 Express Beta 2 products are available for download on the Visual Studio Express Web Site! The Visual Studio Express products are a set of development tools geared towards helping developers unleash their creativity while learning to develop Windows and Web applications. They offer an easy-to-acquire and easy-to-learn experience in a simple package and they are free!
· Download Visual Studio 2010 Express Beta2 Today
Get a jump start on learning to develop on the new .NET 4.0 Framework Beta 2 with the Visual Studio 2010 Express Beta 2 products.· Learn more about Visual Studio 2010
Learn about the many new exciting features in Visual Studio 2010.· Try Visual Studio 2010 Professional
The Beta 2 editions of Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Ultimate are available as free downloads as well.· Basic vs Expert Settings
Unique to Visual Studio 2010 Express … Express now starts up with a streamlined user experience that focuses on the most common commands by hiding some of the more advanced menus and toolbars. All the Express features are still available via the Tools > Settings > Expert Settings menu.Also look through the new Start Page inside Express for more resources and information on what’s new. Enjoy and happy coding!
Noah Coad
Microsoft Visual Studio Program Manager
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- Hoi Noah,
is the 2010 fully compatible with the 2008 (because i am missing the 2009 ;-))
In other words, can i import my 2008 projects to 100% in the 2010 version ?
Doei
Franz - I dont think that will be a problem.
- Is there no offline install for VS2010 ultimate?
Hoi Noah,
is the 2010 fully compatible with the 2008 (because i am missing the 2009 ;-))
In other words, can i import my 2008 projects to 100% in the 2010 version ?
Doei
Franz
There is no Visual Studio 2009
kaymaf
If that what you want, take it. If not, ignored it and no complain- Therefor i wrote "i am missing the 2009" ;-)
- Hi Noah,I rushed to see the link, was disappointed to see there is no F# express version available. Are there any plans to release one?
Ganesh Ranganathan
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blog.ganeshzone.net - The download is excruciatingly slow :'(156 MB for the C# version is taking ages. Guess everyone is trying at the same time
Ganesh Ranganathan
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blog.ganeshzone.net - I think, you are one of a million ;-) trying to download now.
Doei
Franz - I don't get it. What is the purpose for a beta of the Express editions? The full edition beta's I understand. I don't remember beta's for VBE2005 or VBE2008.
- It's simple: the express edition is still on beta phase
I just completed the download and will try it for a week or two - Hey JohnWein, we release Betas of the Express editions are separate product and we want to release high quality versions of them as well as the Professional and Ultimate. There are sometimes issues unique to the Express editions we appreciate getting vetted before releasing them. We did not release a Beta 1 of Express like we did for Pro+ and we did have betas for Express 2005 and 2008 (long since removed by now).
- Hey Ganesh,Please be patient with the download and I hope it's completed long by now. It was a busy day for our servers!
- Hey Ganesh, there will be no F# Express. For F# functionality users will need to use the Professional or higher products.
- Hey Trixi-N,It looks like the other users provided most of the answers, but I'll chime in as well. Express 2010 should be compatible with 2008 in that you can open, compile, build, and run your projects previously created in Express 2008 and there are no feature take backs. But this is why we have the beta so people can try it out and let us know if we missed anything. If you experience problems, please let me know on this thread or by posting directly into our bug database at https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudiothanks, Noah
- Thanks viastain and everyone else for downloading and trying out the Beta! We post it so that we can get your feedback and make sure it's in good working order for a final release. Please post your feedback directly in our customer feedback database at https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio and mention that you're using Express 2010 Beta 2. thanks!
Hey Ganesh, there will be no F# Express. For F# functionality users will need to use the Professional or higher products.
:(Thanks for your reply. Too bad i cant afford the professional version. At least not yet.I hope Microsoft will release cheaper professional licenses for developers who engage in non commercial use of Visual studio. Though the express versions are awesome, I thoroughly miss some of the features in the full version.
Ganesh Ranganathan
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blog.ganeshzone.net- Congratulations to the Visual Studio team for releasing another important milestone for Visual Studio, hope the release goes well.
- Hey Ganesh, I don't know if you fit into one of these classifications, but for those that do they can get MSDN Subscriptions with VS Professional entirely for free with a quick registration.
- Students, of any type, just need a student ID, http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/
- Small Businesses, 5 licenses for 3 years, http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/
- I downloaded the Beta 2010, But There is a cofusing for me ,,, I rather use vb 2008 ,, the apperance and others is different but you know almost everybody will rather it , like me, but now i continue using the current version,,,
Marca como respuesta a la mejor contestacion que el usuario Responda....Melvin It rebooted my computer twice was it supposed to do that?
- It rebooted only once for me. Though it didnt give much choice. The reboot later button was greyed out.
Ganesh Ranganathan
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blog.ganeshzone.net - There will be 1 or 2 reboots in most cases. 1 reboot is required for the .NET Framework 4.0 and on some systems (WinXP, Vista SP1, among others) a Windows Installer patch is require which requires a reboot.
