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Windows Azure Tools for VS 2010 RC

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the application development for Windows Azure platform.
The Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.1 (February 2010) support the Visual Studio 2010 RC and Visual Studio 2008 SP1.
What's New in version 1.1:
Windows Azure Drive: Enable a Windows Azure application to use existing NTFS APIs to access a durable drive. This allows the Windows Azure application to mount a page blob as a drive letter, such as X:, and enables easy migration of existing NTFS applications to the cloud.

VS 2010/.NET 4 Release Candidate (RC) is Available for MSDN subscribers

 

Today Microsoft announced the RC for Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.  MSDN subscribers can can download it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

this will be made available to the public on Wednesday February 10.

You can report your feedback through  survey site and you can file any issues you find on the VS Connect site.

VS 2010 Beta 2 and TFS 2010 Beta 2 VPC image for download

 

Links to download Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 and Team Foundation Server® 2010 Beta 2 -

virtual image for Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1

virtual image for Windows Virtual PC format

virtual image for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

The virtual machine image in this download contains both Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta2 and the requisite trial software.

along with this you can also download Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - January Release

Rangers shipped Visual Studio 2010 TFS Upgrade Guide

Team System Rangers ( or now Visual studio ALM rangers) deliver out of band solutions for missing features and guidance in the Team System suite of products.
This time rangers came up with Visual Studio 2010 TFS upgrade guide on CodePlex. This guide covers scenarios which may be encountered during and after the upgrade process. It provides examples of most common and potential issues. It covers scenarios related to general Upgrade Process, Work Item Templates, Reports, and Enterprise TFS Management (ETM). Although this guide refers to TFS 2008 scenarios, almost all the concepts apply also to TFS 2005.
This content was created with support from Microsoft Product Group, Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs) and technical specialists from technology communities around the globe.