Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 2 - ISO

Brief Description

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional is an integrated environment that simplifies the basic tasks of creating, debugging and deploying applications. Let Visual Studio 2010 Professional unleash your imagination and easily deliver your ideas.

Overview

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional is an integrated environment that simplifies the basic tasks of creating, debugging and deploying applications. Unleash your creativity with powerful design surfaces and the ability to bring your designers and developer together to bring your vision to life. Work within a personalized environment, targeting a growing number of platforms, including Silverlight, SharePoint and Cloud applications and accelerate the coding process by using your existing skills. Integrated support for Test Driven Development and new debugging tools let you find and fix bugs quickly and easily to ensure high quality solutions.

For more information on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/products/2010/default.mspx

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP

Windows XP (x86) with Service Pack 3 - all editions except Starter Edition
Windows XP (x64) with Service Pack 2 - all editions except Starter Edition
Windows Vista (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 1 - all editions except Starter Edition
Windows 7 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server 2003 (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)

Supported Architectures:

32-Bit (x86)
64-Bit (x64)

Hardware Requirements:

Computer that has a 1.6GHz or faster processor
1024MB RAM
3GB of available hard disk space
5400 RPM hard disk drive
DirectX 9-capable video card that runs at 1280 x 1024 or higher display resolution
DVD-ROM Drive

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Instructions

NOTE: Vista RTM/SP1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 users -- If you have previously installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 on your system, you will need to fully uninstall the previous beta release prior to installing Beta 2. For more information and a workaround, please go here.

Choose one of the following download options:
- Download the .exe file and the .rar files on this page, and save them on your computer. On the computer, double-click the .exe file to extract the ISO image.
  -or
- Download the ISO image directly:
  - If you have a download manager that can handle a large file, click here to download the ISO image directly.
  The CRC and SHA1 hash values of your downloaded ISO image should match these:
  
  CRC: 0x24F96204
  SHA-1: 0xCEF1BF1232E24EF7255D26811ED3B8078E5BE58C
  
  Use a hash extraction tool of your choice (several are available online for download) to compute the hash values.
Choose one of the following options for handling downloaded ISO images:
- (Recommended) Write the image file to a blank DVD.
- (Alternative) Mount the image file virtually as DVD devices.
For more information about these options, see "What are ISO image files and how do I use them?" on the FAQ page.

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Additional Information

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Readme
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Installation Readme Addendum

We greatly value your feedback. Please visit the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta site to submit feedback, access the forums and find more information about the Beta.

The Beta 2 release is available for many of the Visual Studio 2010 family products and also in both an ISO and Web Bootstrapper package. Please see the related links to access those.

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