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Microsoft is releasing Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 today through MSDN Subscriber downloads and to the general public on Wednesday, May 20th through Microsoft Downloads.

Get the Bits

• You can get the bits here from MSDN Subscriber Downloads when available https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx?pv=18:370
• After Wednesday, you can get the Beta 1 Bits here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151799

Learn What's New

• A First Look at VS2010: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx
• New .NET Framework 4 Features: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9666478
• Scott Hanselman's .NET 4 overview (PDC 2008) Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies can be found here<http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL49/>.

Community Support

• Beta 1 Forum is available here<http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/VSPreRelease,netdevelopmentprerelease,visualstudioprerelease,vstsprerelease>

For right now, the best thing you can do for yourself and your development team is make sure you have upgraded to the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 to facilitate an upgrade to 4 in a seemless manner as possible.