Coding Tools: Improved Support For Parallelism In The Next Version Of Visual Studio

ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released to MSDN Subscribers earlier this week.

General availability is scheduled for tomorrow !

Read the announcement [ HERE ] with an overview about the new SKUs and features or go straight to the download [ HERE ].

Check out the new look !!!!

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