The latest Visual Studio release is now available from Microsoft – Visual Studio 2010 Beta.

This release has plenty of great new features and well worth a look for any of you developers (whether you are already using Visual Studio or not, its still worth a look).

This product is supposedly the “next gen of next-gen applications” and “will give you every advantage in creating groundbreaking applications”.

Here is a brief overview of some of the new features and benefits. Follow the link to Microsoft below for full details.

Web Development

With Visual Studio 2010, we’re continuing our investment in great Web development tools.

  • 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 Silverlight™ for cutting-edge, rich Internet applications

Enhanced User Experience

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 delivers a modern, enhanced user experience that makes understanding the current context more natural.

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

Parallel Programming

Parallel programming is simplified, so both native- and managed-code developers can productively build innovative applications.

  • 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

More Database Support

With the Visual Studio partner ecosystem, developers will now be able to work with IBM DB2 and Oracle databases in addition to Microsoft SQL Server™ databases.

For more details on Visual Studio 2010 Beta, just follow the link below:
Visual Studio 2010