Quick tip [link]: Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta has been announced

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta has been announced by Jason Zander and S. Somasegar.

SP1 becomes available to the public in two phases:

  1. MSDN Subscribers can get the download as of now
  2. General public will be able to download the Service Pack as of December 9th 2010

Improvements include IntelliTrace support for 64bit and SharePoint, Performance Wizard for Silverlight, Unit Testing on .NET 3.5 and more.

Link for download and more information: Jason Zander’s blog post “Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta”.

Note: If you have ASP.NET MVC3 RC installed, Razor syntax intellisense will break. Please read Jason Zander’s note about current compatibility and wait for an update to the RC.

 

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