The Visual Studio 2010 RC is available to MSDN subscribers and will be available to the public tomorrow.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/02/08/vs-2010-net-4-release-candidate.aspx

UPDATE: I’ve been playing around with the RC and it seems much faster. Loading/unloading a project and compile times are much better. From what I have seen so far today (With pretty limited use) if feels like its on par with 2008. I guess we’ll see more in the days ahead.

If your developing F# applications and using SVN then you’ll be happy to know that the latest version of VisualSVN supports F# in VS2010.

One bummer is that it looks like they aren’t considering a Git offering (At least in the “short term” anyways). I inquired about this and here was the answer Olga Dolidze from VisualSVN support gave:

“I regret to say but we do not have short-terms plans for developing a
GIT-version of our products...”

Although I’m not tied to having VCS functionality in the IDE, it is convenient at times.

As Aaron Stebner mentioned, the latest builds of WiX support VS2010 Beta 2 and automatic project upgrade from VS2008. I had a VS2008 solution that contained a WiX project and the upgrade to VS2010 Beta 2 worked perfectly. Many thanks to the Wix team!

F# October CTP for VS2008 announcement & download.

VS2010 Beta2 announcement (Download is available for MSDN subscribers).