The new release of Visual Studio 2010 has plenty of compelling new features and updates that will make every developer more productive. For instance:

• Visual Studio 2010 allows users target of the right platform for their application, including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint. Office, Windows Azure, and Windows Phone 7 applications using their existing skills.

• Visual Studio 2010 is a rich, personalized development environment.  We know that software developers spend much of their time in the IDE, and features like the new editor and multi-monitor support make your time in Visual Studio more productive and enjoyable.

Teams are able to work more efficiently using Application Lifecycle Management tools. The Visual Studio 2010 team have done a great deal of work in Visual Studio 2010 to improve testing and debugging tools.  Features like IntelliTrace and easy project management help your team ensure high quality.

If you are an MSDN subscriber, later in the day on April 12th you can download Visual Studio 2010 from MSDN.