VS2010/TFS2010 Information Landslide Begins

Yesterday (19th Oct) the information landslide for VS2010 & TFS2010 began with a number of items appearing all over:

• First (and most important) is that BETA 2 of VS2010 is available for download to MSDN subscribers AND everyone else. For more information on that see http://microsoft.com/visualstudio/2010UltimateOffer
• Since not everyone will upgrade their development tools to VS2010 straight away, you may find yourself needing to connect VS2008 to a TFS2010 server. To enable that you need to install the forward compatibility update which you can get from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cf13ea45-d17b-4edc-8e6c-6c5b208ec54d
• The product SKU for Visual Studio 2010 is changing in a lot of ways to make it much simpler so make sure you are up to speed on it via the whitepaper and the Ultimate Offer site (see first link).
• New product logos for Visual Studio, you can see it above (no more orange?)
• MSDN has had a major over hall and now has information targeted for developers based on location. Oh and there is a new logo for MSDN too:
• John Robbins has a great series on the new debugger features available in VS2010 beta 2:
  • VS 2010 Beta 2 Debugger In-Depth First Look
  • VS 2010 Beta 2 IntelliTrace In-Depth First Look
  • VS 2010 Beta 2 Code Analysis In-Depth First Look
  • VS 2010 Beta 2 Sampling and Instrumentation Profiling In Depth First Look
  • VS 2010 Beta 2 Concurrency Resource Profiling In Depth First Look