We recently had
Stephen Toub, a Senior Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft, swing by our office and walked us through some really cool ways to start implementing parallel programming using Visual Studio 2010 and the 4.0 Framework. I'm thankful that I had the opportunity to attend this, it was one of the best presentations I've ever seen. It's exciting to see the technology evolving :)
Anyway, during his presentation we caught a lot of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 in action. There's a bunch of cool improvements and everything seems a lot faster and more responsive. TFS 2010 is also available for download on Microsoft's web site. The links have been changing around since it's been released but here's where it's all currently at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx
Check it out!
- mike