Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and announcements
MSDN subscribers can now download Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx). It will be available for everyone on October 21.
Microsoft also announced the packaging for Visual Studio. Looks like the Standard edition is gone. In addition to the Express versions, there will be Professional, Premium and Ultimate versions. See http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx for details on what is in each version. Some highlights:
- The SharePoint tools are in Pro.
- Team Foundation Server is included in Pro. This is the Team Foundation Server Basic Edition I mentioned in my last blog.
- Pro continues to have unit testing. Premium adds Code Coverage, Test Impact Analysis and Coded UI Test. Ultimate adds Web Performand and Load Testing.
- The tools in VS Team System Database Edition (also known as Data Dude) are in Premium.
- To get the Historical Debugger, you need Ultimate.
Next week I am doing a What's New in VS 2010 Live Learning event. I will use Beta 2, so if you want to see it, come join me Wednesday, Oct 28 at 11 AM CST.