Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 launch

Microsoft today launched the anticipated new development technologies: the Visual Studio 2010 development tool and the .NET Framework 4.0 application platform. This naturally includes new language versions, such as version 4.0 of the C# language and new version of Visual Basic .NET. All technologies are available immediately, both as trial versions and from MSDN downloads.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 contain many important and interesting new features, including improved developer productivity, support for WPF based windows (including the code editor), easier parallel programming, ASP.NET development improvements, better SharePoint development, and much more. From Microsoft, there are several good blog posts that summarize the new features. Also, there's already a list available of what's breaking on C# 4.0 and .NET 4.0.

If you prefer to watch and listen more than read, then check out this video about some of the new features. The official list of new features is available on MSDN documentation.

Good going Microsoft!