Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 RC available

Microsoft earlier today announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC). This is the first major update to the product since the public Beta 2. This new RC version contains the latest bug fixes and features, but also improvements especially in the performance and memory consumption of the product. Both of these are something that have caused lots of discussion since the release of the Beta 2 release, as for example the new WPF based code editor is unique to the 2010 version of the product, and thus something developers have not used before.

The first release candidate can be downloaded here. Scott Guthrie also has a blog post summarizing the new bits.