Just found out that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available to all MSDN subscribers. According to Scott Hanselman it will be available to the General Public on Wednesday.
Here is the link to the download page (Login required):
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx?pv=18%3a370
The timing couldn’t have been better as I have just started working on some Workflows which need to go live next month.
According to Jeff Beehler there is also a Go Live license available.
One thing to mention is that there is no more Team Edition but rather an Ultimate Edition.
Am downloading as I write this so will write a follow up post soon about any install problems.
Update:
| Edition | Price |
| Visual Studio 2010 Pro / exc. MSDN Subscription | $799 |
| Visual Studio 2010 Professional inc. MSDN | $1199 |
| Visual Studio Premium inc. MSDN | $5469 |
| Ultimate Visual Studio inc. MSDN | $11924 |
Visual Studio Developer, Database, Architect & Test Editions have been officially dropped.
Based on this article here are the features for each edition.
| Edition | Features |
| Visual Studio Professional | IDE Parallel Debugging Core Features |
| Visual Studio Premium | Code Analysis Database Deployment UI Testing Test Impact Analysis TFS Integration |
| Visual Studio Ultimate | Everything in Premium +: UML Tools Historical Debugging Manual Testing Load Testing Team Foundation Server |