Microsoft has made its Visual Studio 2010 Express versions available for download.
The software giant made beta 2 of the Visual Studio 2010 Express editions available for download on Oct. 21.
According to Microsoft: "The Visual Studio 2010 Express Beta 2
offers you an exciting experience with the new integrated development
environment, a new editor built in Windows Presentation Foundation
(WPF) and support for the new .NET Framework 4."
In a blog post, Noah Coad, Microsoft Visual Studio program manager,
said, "The Visual Studio Express products are a set of development
tools geared towards helping developers unleash their creativity while
learning to develop Windows and Web applications. They offer an
easy-to-acquire and easy-to-learn experience in a simple package and
they are free!"
The available versions of the Visual Studio Express family that are
now available include Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, Visual Basic
2010 Express, Visual C# 2010 Express and Visual C++ 2010 Express.
Moreover, product enhancements to the Visual Studio Express 2010 product family include:
· Visual Studio 2010 Express supports the new .NET Framework 4.
· Visual Studio 2010
Express SKUs have a new integrated development environment including a
new Windows Presentation Framework code editor.
· In this new
release, Visual Studio 2010 Express gains multi-monitor support as well
as part of the new IDE.
· Unique to Visual
Studio 2010 Express is a new streamlined user experience that focuses
on the most common commands by hiding some of the more advanced menus
and toolbars. These are easily accessible by users via the
Tools/Settings menu.
Daniel Fernandez, a Microsoft developer evangelist, said the betas expire June 30, 2010.
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