VS 2010 Beta 2 Out Publicly

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October 22

VS 2010 Beta 2 Out Publicly

I have been working with VS 2010 quite a bit since the CTP about five months ago. The most recent release is Beta 2 and it was dropped onto MSDN for subscribers back on Monday. Today it rolls out for public consumption:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

I am still working on getting a version of VS 2010 Beta 2 completely installed. I have had 2 failed installs at this point. Here are a few gotchas to watch out for:

Start with a fresh VPC or system - make sure no previous version of VS 2010 existed on the computer previously
Be sure to budget enough time for the install to run - perhaps 4-6 hours. I did a save state on my VPC in the middle and this caused the install to fail in the middle.
If any of the features fail, they do not show up in the Add/Remove programs checklist - you would need to start a fresh install.
Uninstall is not working completely so this does not provide an option to back out if you get an error or have to stop in the middle.

I have reported a couple bugs already, and if you find any, be sure to report them at:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/content/content.aspx?ContentID=14631

Thanks,

10:44 AM | Blog it | VS 2010

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