The Release Candidate build of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is available this week with a go-live license for production environments. Microsoft released the bits to the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) on Monday. General availability is planned for Wednesday, according to the company.
The public VS2010 RC follows two beta releases, the latest in October. Despite significant progress since Beta 1, released in May, Beta 2 testers reported sluggish performance compared to VS2008, buggy or missing functionality, issues with memory consumption and stability concerns. Those issues caused Microsoft to push back the intended March launch event, and release the public RC build.
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