Microsoft has released Visual Studio 1010 Beta 1 to the public. The list of new features includes improvements to:
• Visual Studio IDE (the whole IDE is now WPF based)
• C# and VB.NET Language
• Web Development
• WPF and Silverlight Designer
• Visual C++ Development
• Parallel Programming
• Adds Visual F#
Ars Technica has a list of links to the various beta downloads and to a lengthy blog post by Jason Zander who is the product’s General Manager giving an overview of the changes.