10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010

Update: Please see 10-4 Episode 20 for a tutorial on downloading and installing beta 1 of Visual
Studio 2010. It's much newer than the CTP described in this video and contains several new features and fixes.
For this first episode of 10-4, we’ll look at how to download and use the Virtual PC image of the Visual Studio 2010 September CTP. We’ll give you tips on how to download this massive (7GB+ compressed) VPC, show you how to get past some pesky expiration issues,
and get you started with the CTP walkthroughs. Lastly we’ll cover where to get assistance and provide your feedback about this release.
In future episodes we’ll dive more deeply into the technical underpinnings of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, but for this first episode we wanted to make sure everybody could get the CTP and follow along at home as we explore new features.
URL's referenced in this episode:
http://tinyurl.com/GetCTP
http://tinyurl.com/VSFeedback
http://tinyurl.com/CTPActivation
For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/10-4/
Over and out!
Lars Ulrich is in my office right now, in tears. First the fallout with Warner Bros and now us.
Another vote for no intro music. It's especially annoying if you already have background music from another source.
Show helpful, music very distracting.... pls remove next time!
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nice shot sir!
Thanks for taking the time to elaborate, Mexilus. But the term "evangelist" used to describe our profession has been around for a very long time and is used by several companies across the industry, not just Microsoft. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_evangelist. In fact, the beloved Guy Kawasaki was an evangelist for Apple.
It's true that the title is unfortunately confused from time to time with that of religious evangelists. But you can say the same thing about several titles. For example, do you think that the Secretary of State is the person responsible for scheduling meetings
and taking notes for the President? Is somebody with a "doctorate" in literary studies somebody you would go to if you broke your leg? Is the captain of a football team responsible for driving the boat?
Many words and titles have multiple meanings. "Evangelist" is one of those words. Unless the tech industry decides collectively to redefine the genre, I suspect we'll have technical evangelists as long as we have companies who produce and sell technology.
It should be noted (not that it's really that important) that when we started C9 nobody on the 9 team carried the title Evangelist. Bryn and I were SDEs, Jeff was a PM, Lenn was a Director and Scoble was a...
Let's be clear: Technical Evangelism is NOT Marketing. I think that's made pretty clear in the content that we deliver on C9... I actually think it's an intriguing title, but I do understand how it can rub some people the wrong way.
Fun topic, however.
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Please drop the music it's really really annoying.
At this site, we do not have Silverlight installed and are not allowed to install it. Would it be too much trouble to make the video available to run in media player?
Guys, don't take it badly, but BitTorrent is not only to download DVDRips...download managers are so 1990's...please next time package it in a format coherent
with the 21st century and I might just download it.
thanks.
ps: of course I still downloaded it, cause I'm a geek and I need my dose of new .NET framwork every two years, but really, it's a pain... I just uninstalled the downloader...reminded me too much of the old times.
I
have noticed MS is making more of there content as video/poscasts-I do not think this is a good trend.
Even though this one was well organized, I would like to see these things transcribed to some sort of document.
Then it would be searchable. Also, I can read/skim something like this in about 30 secs and pick out the important parts and determining if it requires a closer read..
With these videos, we have to watch the whole thing to find out if we enve need to spend time with it.
IF you turn the volume down as low as possible where you still can hear Brian talk, the music is less distracting
Hello Brian,
Very usefull post and nice music ... but it seems to be a problem with the VS 2010 CTP download.
I followed your steps but the download manager is not able to download any fille and it reports: "File not found on the server"
Could you please help me sort this out?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Claudiu Matache
Seriously, Please don't play music the entire video. Atleast keep the music volume down. Pelase.