I wrote some articles and recorded some training videos earlier this year demonstrating some of the new features of Visual Studio 2008. Seems like only a few weeks ago but already I am reading about the forthcoming Visual Studio 2010. BTW, Having dome some research for an essay on Parallel Computing at NUIG, I read somewhere that one of the buzz words for the new version of the IDE is parallelism. Microsoft have already addressed this with Multi Threading and are probably  streets ahead of anyone else with this. People in the know advise that the new family of development tools will be built specifically to address the new so called “crises in computing”.

Anyway, if you cannot wait, MS have released a VS2010 training pack. So point your browsers on over here and download a relatively small 26.5MB exe.

From the MS Download page . . .

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including: C# 4.0, Visual Basic 10, F#, Parallel Computing Platform, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Data.

• MS Press Article
• Interesting article on CNET about the Black Box” (not really in the testing context) capabilities of VS2010
• Great Article from Code Project (my favourite folks on the web, sometimes)