Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 hits Release Candidate

 

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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 9 Feb 2010 at 10:07

Microsoft has made the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2010 available to MSDN subscribers, with the public release set for 10 February.

The Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2010 was a last-minute addition to Microsoft's roadmap, and was introduced by the company in order to iron out performance issues with the original code.

The Release Candidate was announced in December 2009, along with a revised release schedule that saw the launch of the final code pushed back from March to 12 April.

According to Jason Zander, general manager of Microsoft Visual Studio, the Release Candidate should bring a raft of improvements over the beta.

"We got a lot of invaluable feedback on Beta 2 through Connect as well as your survey responses," he writes on his blog. "In particular many of you pointed out areas of performance where we were not at parity with VS2008 and it was impacting your ability to adopt the product.

"Some of those areas of feedback included general UI responsiveness (including painting, menus, remote desktop and VMs), editing (typing, scrolling, and Intelisense), designers (Silverlight and WPF in particular), improved memory usage, debugging (stepping, managed / native interop), build times, and solution/project load," he adds.