Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta released

On Thursday December 9, 2010, Microsoft announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta. The Beta release was made available to MSDN Subscribers on Tuesday December 7.

Updates in Service Pack 1 Beta

• Improved platform support for Silverlight
  Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 (with a few updates to RIA Services) is now included in the box along with Silverlight 3 support, underscoring Microsoft's commitment to that quickly-evolving platform. A number of other targeted changes have been made, including some additional Windows 7 specific MFC APIs to support use of Direct2D, DirectWrite, and Windows Animation Technologies.
• Help Viewer
• Unit Testing on .NET 3.5
• IntelliTrace F5 for 64 bit and SharePoint projects
• Performance Wizard for Silverlight
• VB Compiler runtime switch

For more information visit:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2010/12/07/announcing-visual-studio-2010-service-pack-1-beta.aspx

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