Microsoft has announced the release of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate. Improvements over Beta 2 focus on speed including UI responsiveness, designers, editing, debugging, build times and solution/project load times.
There is a MSDN overview page and number of helpful blog posts. Jason Zander, General Manager for the Visual Studio team has a short FAQ, earlier he had a very useful discussion of using Team Foundation Server in VS2010 including TFS Basic which is intended to replace Visual SafeSource for individuals and small teams. Scott Guthrie, VP in the Microsoft Developer Division has a round-up of positive feedback and some more FAQs.
A launch event is scheduled for April 12, 2010.