On the 12th as planned, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010. As an update it’s pretty extensive where not all of it’s good but it’s the way of the future so progress we must.

With it, the latest .NET Framework, 4, was available. This also includes a ‘client profile’ release of .NET 4 which I personally feel is a complete and utter waste of time only serving to confuse the hell out of developers and users alike. For the sake of a few MB, install the full runtime and ignore the marketing spin. if Microsoft were serious about runtime size, they’d have scrapped the .NET Framework for UI/desktop and moved everyone to Silverlight…

This brings me neatly to another release – Silverlight 4 (although delayed until the 18th). Somewhat strangely the development tools are provided at an RC2 release version. RTM is expected ‘soon’.

It must be hard to release so many ‘seperate’ things at once!

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